Early participants say the protests bloomed over Twitter and Facebook, triggered by several events that gnawed at the younger generation, including revelations from WikiLeaks documents that showed government officials to be less than forthright, and opposition to a recent antipiracy Internet law, which aims to shut down previously legal Web sites enabling the free downloading of music and films.
Tools like Google Related, for example, were interesting experiments (like many of the other products the company shut down previously), but never caught on with users.
Demonizing ivory by promoting the questionable destruction of national ivory stockpiles, shutting down previously legal ivory sales in the U.S., the EU and elsewhere, even calling for destroying ivory art in public collections — none of these approaches has any effect on reducing poaching, and might even increase it.
North Korea says it wants to negotiate with the United States over the North's newly disclosed nuclear weapons program, and is open to meeting the Bush administration's demand that it shut down its previously secret uranium-enrichment facilities.
Indeed, as the world absorbed the news of her prize, Monrovia was virtually shut down by a previously scheduled rally to energize the opposition before the presidential election on Tuesday.
Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf is nearing the end of a heated re-election campaign, and as the world absorbed the news of her prize, her nation's capital, Monrovia, was virtually shut down by a previously scheduled rally intended to energize the opposition before the vote on Tuesday.
Their work - also supported by Sparkbrook's several white residents - also included a campaign to shut down a hostel previously plagued by drug abuse and prostitution.
There were also reports of tampering with personal equipment, including rifling through and then locking a previously unlocked briefcase, turning on a previously shut down computer, and trying to pry open the back of a laptop.
The coalition has previously shut down another newspaper, Al Mustaqilla, and for a while closed the Baghdad office of Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera's principal satellite competitor.
Wal-Mart refused to release any financial numbers for the store; in its decade in Canada, it has never previously shut down an outlet.
Shahrvand-e-Emrooz was previously shut down, along with several other titles, after the unrest that followed the 2009 elections, but resumed publication recently.
