The few thousand campers are far smaller in number than the tens of thousands who swamped government buildings and closed down the airport in 2008.With elections possible this year, the government calculates that it is now strong enough to dispense with yellow-shirt support.
One of its first uses was to block a television station that supports Thaksin Shinawatra, a self-exiled former prime minister, whom many red shirts support.
While the red shirts are mostly drawn from the country's rural and urban poor, the yellow shirts support a royalist bureaucratic and business elite that has held sway for generations.
"The fact that they marched in T-shirts supporting the bid was very important".
"It's the Bible Belt," said Jeff Porter, the owner of C & C Custom Tees, which has sold 800 shirts supporting the cheerleaders.
Politics swiftly descended into colour-coded enmity, with the "red shirts" backing Mr Thaksin and the "yellow shirts" supporting the army, monarchy and, in part, the Democrat Party DPP).
Would anyone ever again be able to walk three blocks along Atlantic Avenue without seeing a hat or T-shirt supporting the Brooklyn Nets?
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — One day after practice this week, the Giants Brandon Jacobss wore a T-shirt supporting the Southern Illinois Salukis, the college team that helped make him a star.
Perhaps he didn't like the colour, or maybe he objected to the simple, yet classic style, but either way David Cameron has repeatedly refused to wear a T-shirt supporting feminism.
The protest stunt took place on August 9, when he scaled a 100-foot crane wearing a t-shirt supporting the Blackfish documentary and carrying an inflatable killer whale (Orca).
