At the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, I recall helping to carry across the floor a 30-foot banner urging the party to "Stay in the Mainstream."

The book has become a bible of the movement - protesters at a World Bank meeting in Washington last year carried a banner urging people to read it.

Greenpeace protesters erect a banner urging George Osborne to back a green investment bank.

Some of the fans carry banners urging a change of general managers as well.

On Saturday night, two fans paraded along a stadium walkway during the seventh-inning stretch with a banner urging the Padres' owner, Joan Kroc, to "Scrub Chub."

These days the house is festooned with banners urging Becky on to success.

The pilgrim Takers were there too, dressed in their distinctive black-and-white garb, holding banners urging repentance.

The main streets display neatly written banners urging people to kill "traitors" and Americans.

Later on Friday, about 50 protesters interrupted the official premiere of the Greek National Theater, holding up banners urging people to join the demonstrations.

Fans all over Italy waved banners urging Il Trap to choose the slender little Buddhist, who is known as Il Codino, for the pigtail he used to wear.