31.   Fishermen associations in the southern region of Andalucia and northwestern Galicia said they planned to hold meetings Monday to decide on possible protest action.

32.   Four union officials were detained in Adana to prevent them from organizing a protest action.

33.   Greenpeace members stormed aboard a Japanese whaling ship outside Wellington harbor on Tuesday in a daring protest action.

34.   Hundreds of security personnel stood nearby but did not move against the peaceful protest action.

35.   In any case, it was the largest protest action since the election of Alexander Lukashenko as president last July.

36.   In another protest action, the Palestinian Business Association announced Thursday it would boycott an international economic conference this month in Amman, Jordan.

37.   Interns increased their protest actions on Friday, hoping to draw more media attention to their cause.

38.   It decided on protest action following the collapse of talks brokered by South Africa and Nigeria, which were aimed at setting up a government of national unity.

39.   Kurdish defense lawyers argued that their clients were not leaders of the protest action.

40.   Many cash-strapped mines have withheld salaries for as long as a year, prompting frequents demonstrations and other protest actions.