The demand included calls for a month of bridging finance to avoid the IMF default and for broader debt relief without mentioning Greek concessions in return for acceptance.
Library directors say the demand includes immigrants who need help learning English, highly educated professionals from foreign countries wanting to use databases for research and homesick expatriates wanting to read magazines from their homelands.
A number of factors have driven the demand, including the low U.S. housing prices relative to China's, the appreciation of the Yuan, and low interest rates in China, among others.
The group making the demand includes the Yazidi's top spiritual figure, Baba Sheikh, and a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, Vian Dakhil.
The demands include the withdrawal of troops from seven key Zapatista areas in the Lacandón Jungle.
The demands include cutting ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, closing the broadcaster al-Jazeera and reducing ties with Iran.
The demands include Yanukovych's resignation, fresh presidential elections, and an amnesty for those rounded up by police in street protests.
The demands include increased access to land, the formalization of land rights, and the provision of inputs and credit to increase land productivity for small farmers.
The demands include plans to end broken windows policing, policing for profit, limit the use of force by officers, demilitarize local police departments, equip officers with body cameras, retrain officers to de-escalate situations and ensure community oversight and involvement.
The demands include "serious negotiations" about the return of Krajina; opening the Split-Knin-Zagreb railway, and opening an oil pipeline from the Adriatic Sea that runs through Serbian-held territory.
