1.   Business interests from the Chamber of Commerce on down are now organizing to demand that sales taxes be applied to products wherever they are sold.

2.   In Mali, Benin, the Republic of the Congo and elsewhere, citizens who organized to demand democracy were overthrowing corrupt dictators.

3.   Luna said the Zapotecs had been organizing to demand electricity, more potable water and other services from the government.

4.   The fast was organized to demand respect for human rights and the release of people Biscet and other dissidents say are political prisoners.

5.   The general strike was organized to demand dissolution of the caretaker government headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala.