1.   Attempts to reach the protest organizer were unsuccessful.

2.   A protest organizer, Anita Rufus, said she does not want the world to think that Palm Springs is a hotbed of militia activity.

3.   But Aberkane, the protest organizer, said the leaders the government chose were not real leaders, but puppets.

4.   But protest organizers ordered local youths not to provoke the Israeli border police and moved them away.

5.   But protest organizers distanced themselves from what they called hoodlums and extremists who had no ties to the main protest march.

6.   But that is not the view of Marleine Bastien, executive director of Haitian Women of Miami Inc. and one of the protest organizers.

7.   But the protest organizers in Mombasa have not applied for a license, deliberately setting themselves on a collision course with the police.

8.   For their part, protest organizers have promised that the demonstrators will be nonviolent.

9.   For their part, protest organizers insist they will not incite, encourage, or condone violence.

10.   Further disruptions are widely expected in the days ahead, after protest organizers announced that the strike that they called on Tuesday morning would extend indefinitely.