Read Shirt Rally Day 30: Attack and Counter-Attack

It has been a game of attack and retreat, counter-attack and retreat. Neither the Red Shirts nor the government will give an inch.  The government closed the Red Shirts' television station. The Red Shirts attacked the station and took it back. The government pushed the Reds out. All the fun seems to have gone out of the demonstrations, no more flag waving, clappers and drums. The Nation reports that troops have fired rubber bullets at the protesters and the protesters responded by firing real bullets, injuring several troops. Who will gain the upper hand is now deadly contested.