Mass demonstrations, including the torching of parliament, forced him to flee.
Several local institutions will hold demonstrations, including the New York Hall of Science, which plans to dissect cows' eyes; the Liberty Science Center, with experiments with electricity and DNA; and the American Museum of Natural History, with a mobile paleontology unit.
It's by no means the first – or the last – time workers have stood up for their rights; past demonstrations including the miners' strike of 1984 and walkouts by US fast-food workers in 2013.
And there were a few graying veterans of 1960's demonstrations, including the comedian Dick Gregory and Tom Hayden, one of the organizers of the 1968 Democratic convention protests and now a California state senator.
The authorities in Nepal, which have recently received a 50 percent boost in aid from Beijing, have violently suppressed Tibetan demonstrations, including the arrest of thousands of exiles in 2008.
In the 1960s it broadcast live coverage of Berkeley's famous marches and demonstrations, including the Free Speech Movement sit-ins, Black Panther trials and the battle over People's Park.
Amnesty International released a statement on Wednesday condemning the "repeated use of excessive force by police in recent demonstrations, including the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of tear gas and other chemicals against largely peaceful protesters".
Although the fuel price increases were the catalyst, the demonstrations included the first explicit calls for the king's ouster, as protesters took up the signature Arab Spring chant about "the fall of the regime," even though that can be a capital offense here.
The advice highlighted violence at recent demonstrations, including the death of a US citizen in Alexandria last week, reportedly stabbed after he was seen filming a demonstration there.
They are part of a host of immigrant rights and immigration reform demonstrations, including the DREAM9; the DREAM30; the deportation busses blocked in Phoenix, Tucson and San Francisco; the President being heckled by someone whose family was split by deportations; an immigration court being shut down by demonstrators in Tucson, to just name a few.
