Other neighborhood leaders never put down their protest placards, and there is now significant tension between the two factions.

"No Blood for Oil," the protest placards insist, and others mutter that this is somehow, too much, about Israel.

The police said some of the women carried protest placards.

Many wore buttons signifying their membership in the unions and wore protest placards across their chests.

At this point Stuckist protesters (one of whom was Stella Vine) in the watching crowd held up protest placards.

A protest placard marks the spot where a bridge is proposed for the new HS2 high-speed rail link.

A girl holds a protest placard during a public sector strike over pensions last year.

My clothes are my protest placard.

"Lust for higher office and cultural terrorism - that offends my religion," read one protest placard.

"That is not appropriate," Mr. Cuomo said of the protest placards.