One video showed smoke around the cooking area, where protesters who had staged the two-month-old demonstration prepared meals.
While the five week-old demonstration is hardly at war with the British empire, it is in the midst of hunkering down for an east coast winter that will test the movement's commitment and fortitude.
The nationwide turnout, while much smaller than the 300,000 in Tel Aviv and elsewhere the week before, represented a deliberate attempt by organizers to broaden the impact of the month-old demonstration, which has grown from a small cluster of tent protesters to a phenomenon drawing widespread media attention.
At the University of California agricultural research center in Irvine, an 8-year-old demonstration project shows how alternative landscaping doesn't have to be all cacti and lava rocks.
Indeed, it's premised on the notion that old-school demonstrations are increasingly insufficient.
Recommended for ages 7 and older, these demonstrations are enhanced by the lab's exhibit on nanotechnology's applications in fields like medicine, transportation and fashion.
Many of the 65,000 annual visitors come for the festival or for old-time demonstrations like cane grinding and wheat threshing, not to gaze into the Foster dioramas or hear the bells chime "doo-dah".
Thousands of riot police officers stormed a three-week old pro-Europe demonstration in the centre of Kiev on Wednesday morning, hacking their way through barricades and forcing back protesters who stood in their way.
And increasingly, it appears that its old tactics — seeding demonstrations with agent provocateurs, riling mobs to defend state institutions, deliberately spreading disruption, confusion, and sectarianism — are still in use, too.
And increasingly, it appears that its old tactics—seeding demonstrations with agent provocateurs, riling mobs to defend state institutions, deliberately spreading disruption, confusion, and sectarianism are still in use, too.
