WATO hosted the protest, but collaborated with many organizations such as Black Lives Matter (Boston Chapter), the Boston NAACP, Intelligent Mischief and the Service Employees International Union.
Rather than host the usual protest, these librarians chose to do what librarians do best: they provided a community service.
Artists upset over reports that thousands of migrant workers will suffer or die as Qatar gears up to host the tournament protested by tweaking sponsors' logos.
Airbnb has also been monitoring the bill closely and invited dozens of their hosts to the protests Tuesday.
One of the best-loved characters in off-road folklore is the Phantom Duck of the Desert, a motorcycle fanatic (real name: Louis McKey) who from the mid-1970's to 2000 was the host of protest rides through the Mojave Desert after the Bureau of Land Management stopped approving permits for a popular dirt bike race from Barstow to Las Vegas.
Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker and PEN host, said he thought the protest ill-founded and part of a debate that had "lost track of the reality of how Charlie Hebdo functioned in French society".
"If Dr. Martin Luther King were alive today, he'd be here marching with us," James Leger, a radio show host and one of the protest organizers, told the Sun Sentinel.
The "Resisters" page, for example, which Facebook deemed inauthentic, relied on admins from five authentic pages to co-host the counter-protest.
A pair of them talked about the 2006 Bilderberg conference in Ottawa, where the radio host Alex Jones led the protests with his megaphone.
The broadcaster Stephen Fry has called for Russia to be denied the right to host the Winter Olympics, in protest at the treatment of gay people in Russia.
