Thousands gathered by the Capitol reflection pool in Washington on Saturday to march, chant, and listen to speakers and performers as part of Stop Watching Us, a gathering to protest "mass surveillance" under NSA programs first disclosed by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The broadcasters, however, told the Greens "a few weeks ago" that it was not possible for different speakers to appear across the debates being proposed by the BBC, Sky, Channel 4 and ITV.
A 45-year-old senior lecturer at Chelsea college of art and design, who did not wish to be named, said: "There was a free teach-in at 5 o'clock and various speakers came and talked about the consequences of the cuts on the arts and education.
Rebels in eastern Ukraine have accused Right Sector of atrocities against Russian speakers.
Inside the hall, enormous US and Australian flags bookended either side of the stage, and a unconventional medley of country music and Stevie Wonder songs pealed from speakers.
One of the fascinations was that the speakers spent most of their time talking about the likely performance of the smaller parties.
He played with such power that he regularly blew his bass amplifier's speakers.
The speakers offered policies that they hoped would serve as counterweights to Obama's focus on income inequality.
Some morning speakers delivered pointed criticisms of Bush and Romney, the former Republican governors of Florida and Massachusetts who have said they may run for president in next year's primary contest but did not attend Saturday's event.
It was so refreshing to see a majority of speakers trenchantly and unapologetically making the case against austerity, in the teeth of an orthodoxy that has prevailed for far too long, notably in the broadcast media.
Both Latvian- and Russian-language speakers are moving toward centre, and there are only some limited radicals on both sides," Cepuritis said.
