<p>A clip of red shirts in Nakhon Phanom receiving money has been posted on the ASTV-Manager, The Nation and YouTube websites, and has been shared and discussed through the Facebook network and on webboards. &nbsp;A local red-shirt leader says that the money was from donations they had received from their fund-raising activities, and was distributed as petrol expenses for the red shirts to come to Bangkok.</p>

<p>See photo updates on the red shirts' rally by members of Prachatai webboard here:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.prachatai.net/ireport">http://www.prachatai.net/ireport</a>.</p>

<p>Jaran Ditta-apichai insists on non-violence, and his non-violence requires mobilizing as many people as possible.</p> <p>&lsquo;Why do we expect a million? Because we use non-violence. &nbsp;A fight with non-violence is decided by the number of people. &nbsp;Even with over 200,000 people in April [2009], it was not successful. &nbsp;The number is the deciding factor of victory. &nbsp;If the UDD didn&rsquo;t use non-violence, we wouldn&rsquo;t need a lot of people. &nbsp;20,000 well-trained people would be enough.&rsquo;</p>

<p>Thailand's Ministry of Labor warned Thai employers not to bring any migrant workers to join ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra's supporters, who are scheduled to launch a major anti-government protest in Bangkok this weekend.</p>

<p>The disconnect between the mainstream media and the red shirts has become even starker after the February 26 court ruling on former PM Thaksin Shinawatra's so-called ill-gotten wealth, leading to the seizure of Bt46 billion of his assets.</p>

<p>Violence was lurking just beneath the surface at yesterday's red-shirt rally by the Democratic Alliance Against Dictatorship (DAAD) in front of Bangkok Bank's headquarters on Silom Road.</p>

<p>By the admission of the acting government spokesman, the anti-government red shirts under the banner of United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) are now prevalent in no fewer than 38 of Thailand's 76 provinces, predominantly in the populous Northeast and North.</p>

<p>Thailand is again in frenzy over coup rumors, perpetuated mostly by anti-government Red Shirts who need a reason to protest and by a media machine that needs a story. The top generals have denied that anything is amiss, words that mean little since they said the same thing before ousting former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2006.&nbsp;</p>

<p>&lsquo;<a href="http://thaienews.blogspot.com/">Thai E-News</a>: News about Thailand that you may not have read in the news&rsquo; is the slogan of one of Thailand&rsquo;s leading political websites. &nbsp;It has only content and no web board. &nbsp;It is unabashedly &lsquo;red&rsquo;, but red with a strange smell. &nbsp;It posts critical points of view from all circles.</p>

<p>Leaders of both the red- and yellow-shirt movements appear to have succumbed, in their self-absorbed way, to thinking of themselves as out-of-this-world characters - often to comic effect. Some time ago, the yellow-shirt People's Alliance for Democracy supremo Sondhi Limthongkul dressed all in white like some holy man, splashed his PAD followers with what appeared to be holy water, like that dispensed by Buddhist monks. That was at the height of the PAD's seizure of Government House.</p>

<p>On 22 Jan, Kittichai Charnchoengsilpakul, Da Torpedo&rsquo;s brother, together with some 30 activists, red shirts and monks, presented a petition to the Corrections Department, requesting the agency to provide medical treatment for Daranee.</p>

<p>(New York) - The government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva largely failed to fulfill its pledges to make human rights a priority, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2010.</p>