One hundred women got naked to protest the GOP convention: Who else is protesting?

More than 4,700 Republican delegates and alternates inside Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena will get down to the business of nominating Donald Trump as their presidential candidate this week.

Outside “The Q,” home of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, more than 11,000 people are expected to protest throughout the week.

They’ve come from across the country — women’s rights activists, union workers, Latino activists, Second Amendment supporters, Islamic leaders, nuns, environmental activists, Native American activists, youth organizers, ministers, peace and justice workers, LGBT advocates, families of people killed by police, anti-violence activists, AIDS activists, artists, poets and musicians.

It’s as if a second convention, and largely a different conversation, is going on outside.

More than 30 groups have permits to protest, to grab what some call “the people’s mic.” Never-Trump passions that dogged the candidate in other cities during the Republican primaries have found their Ground Zero in Cleveland.

Some of the groups that plan to protest include the self-explanatory Stand Together Against Trump; the New Black Panther Party; and Code Pink: Women for Peace, a feminist anti-war group that plans a Donald Trump-inspired beauty pageant.

“It’s game time, and we’re ready for it,” Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said at a news conference Sunday morning.

Thousands of police officers from hundreds of cities across the country are in Cleveland, now schooled on the state’s open-carry gun rules. They’re patrolling on bicycles, horses and with dogs at their sides.

The media will cover the marches and sign-waving. But all around town non-Trump fans are also attending concerts, symposiums and workshops, film screenings, comedy shows, worship gatherings, charity fundraisers and happy hours with political leaders.

They are just as ready as the police, some of them formally tethered by Facebook pages and Twitter accounts full of rally schedules and user-friendly information, such as what to do if you’re arrested. “We urge you to stay silent and call a lawyer,” is typical advice.

On Sunday morning under the watchful eye of Cleveland police, photographer Spencer Tunick photographed 100 naked women holding up large mirrors toward The Q to make a statement about female empowerment.

More than 1,500 women applied to be part of the art installation; Tunick had room for just 100.

“I was worried at the end that they’d start asking me questions, but they were chill,” Tunick told Vice. “They were obviously not Trump fans.”

Demonstrations were largely peaceful on the eve of the convention Sunday. About 200 demonstrators who marched through downtown shouted “No justice, no peace, no racist police!” as they made their way toward the arena, the New York Times reported.

Cleveland police have spent two years planning for the convention. But the events in recent weeks — the police shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and the deaths of officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge — have police on high alert.

Ohio’s laws, which allow protesters to openly carry rifles and handguns, have them on even higher alert.

A rally and march on Monday called for an end to poverty. On Tuesday The Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network will rally to “stop the hate.”

On Wednesday, protesters plan to raise a 15,000-foot “Wall of Trump” to mock the candidate’s plan to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. People around the country were invited to paint, stencil, graffiti and otherwise decorate sections of the wall.

Some protesters also plan to be in Philadelphia next week for the Democratic National Convention because their beefs aren’t just with one party or candidate.

But this week, it’s Donald Trump’s turn.

This story was originally published July 18, 2016 at 4:34 PM with the headline "One hundred women got naked to protest the GOP convention: Who else is protesting?."