Much of this activity was methodically tracked by Mr. Gietzen, who said he presides over a network of 600 volunteers, some of whom drove hundreds of miles for a protest "shift".
Postal workers protested in shifts, Ms. Refaat said.
Brosnan said baseball did not protest the shift.
Thus the protests shifted to the centre of Paris where media crews from all over the globe were assembling to cover the imminent Vietnam peace talks.
But in the past week or two, the nature of the protest shifted — and so did any hope that demands for change would cross sectarian lines and unite Bahrainis in a cohesive democracy movement.
With power changing hands in Thailand, the protests shifted as well, this time to the "red shirts" who support Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted as prime minister in a coup in 2006.
In February 2008, the focus of the protest shifted to legal methods, including nonviolent protests and an attempt to get the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Church of Scientology's tax exempt status in the United States.
Target employees protest Thanksgiving shifts, and Apple gives in on employee perks.
The strikers, who began their campaign more than a year ago, are protesting the shifting of prisoners from large wards to small cells for one to three inmates.
At one of New Delhi's most prestigious universities, professors have disrupted classes for weeks to protest plans to shift to a semester system.
