They are professional visual artists -- painters, photographers, jewelry-makers and others -- who have been gathering every Tuesday for the last five years.
Corrupted by dreams of profit, crowds of 500 or more were gathering every Sunday on a street in the city's embassy district to ply a shameful trade.
Wearing white T-shirts with red stop signs and chanting "BET does not reflect me, MTV does not reflect me," protesters have been gathering every Saturday outside the homes of Viacom executives in Washington and New York City.
Preserving the act, which was passed when there was a Democrat in the governor's office and the legislature was not as heavily controlled by Republicans, was among dozens of issues brought up by protesters who have been gathering every Monday since April.
Since then, resistance in Pennsylvania has been fierce, with activists gathering every Tuesday to pressure lawmakers to oppose the Republican corporate agenda.
In France, public grief was expressed more loudly, local communities gathering every armistice day to hear the names of the dead read out by a war orphan, and responding in unison, "mort pour la patrie" — "died for his country".
LUNCH A group of sports and showbiz types have been gathering every other Wednesday for lunch at the Valley Inn in Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Since the start of the year, a group of union officials, Hill staffers, academics, journalists, and single-issue activists has been gathering every other Tuesday morning to discuss how to thwart the Bush Administration's agenda, particularly its Social Security plan.
Members of community churches, of wildly dynamic love relationships, of inquisitive social collectives come out of their gatherings every day and feel like singing, or building, or starting a new business, and they will treat their kids better and kiss their husbands more messily, and the halo effect will take over as lives all around them will get that much more luminous and hopeful and strong.
