A late-night curfew was extended Tuesday for four more days as the government moved aggressively against members of the red shirt protest movement, arresting people who took part or helped in the protests and extending the detention time of several opposition leaders.
In addition, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, which helped organize the protest in Chinatown, also helped push through an ordinance that makes it more difficult to open large superstores here.
He came to the District of Columbia eight days ago to help the protest in the nation's capital grow, he said on Friday.
The bishops' campaign "is nothing more than election-year political posturing," said Phil Attey, the executive director of Catholics for Equality, an organization that supports equal rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Catholics and that helped organize the protest in Baltimore.
Rev. Jeff Hood, a Baptist minister based in Dallas, helped organize the protest that preceded the shooting as a way for people to gather and vent.
"I knew Thanksgiving was coming up, and I was feeling a little lonely," said Emilie Crabe, who helped organize the protest in Paris.
Members of the watchdog group Road Control, which has accused Ukraine's traffic police of corruption, also say they have been subjected to more attacks since they started helping protesters in the sprawling protest encampments in Kiev.
Jackie Lang, a timber industry activist in Salem who helped lead the protest against the Fox network and Groening, said she was appalled by Groening's response, and "he will be sorry he ever made it".
Nina Kucsik, who won the 1972 race and fought for years for women's equality in athletics, says she helped organize the protest along with the race director, Fred Lebow.
Alexandra Brodsky, an alumna of Yale University who was one of 16 complainants against her Ivy League institution, said she's helping to organize the protest in part because of her disappointment in how OCR concluded its investigation of her school.
