DreamYard also holds poetry contests between local kids and kids in other countries via Skype, makes posters for political protests, supplies art work for parks and other public spaces, holds acting workshops for adults, helps to paint designs on local apartment-building rooftops in heat-reflecting paint, and runs arts festivals.
Activists soon turned to social media to keep the protests supplied.
The tribes owe much of their effectiveness to American environmental groups like Amazon Watch, the Pachamama Alliance and Earthrights International, which help organize protests, supply airplanes and set up meetings with American legislators.
When dozens of demonstrators wearing the handmaid's uniform converged on the country's congress to protest, Atwood supplied a letter to be read out.
"Several hundred residents of the city of Howrah on Monday blocked an arterial road to protest inadequate supply of water," said Baren Das, an official from Howrah's municipal corporation.
The friendly tone stood in contrast to the rupture between Washington and Moscow after Russia's war with its tiny neighbor of Georgia in 2008, when President George W. Bush shelved a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement in protest and supplied financial aid to the Georgians.
Pakistan protests block Nato supplies Jump to media player Protests against US drone strikes in Pakistan have begun targeting a border crossing near Peshawar - a key supply route for Nato troops in Afghanistan.
Lennart Kotsalainen, the Tanzania-based deputy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, confirmed the protests, and said supplies had dwindled because roads and rails had been inundated.
These latter incidents included activists threatening to protest businesses that supply animal feed to research labs and airlines that transport research animals.
Political and religious parties in Pakaistan undertook "long march" to Islamabad to protest reopening of supply routes to Afghanistan.
At least 3,000 police officers from 12 forces were reported to have been drafted in for the duration of the protest, to safeguard electricity supplies and prevent the protesters from shutting the station down.
