So far, demonstrators from a variety of causes, ranging from Jews opposed to any Israeli compromises with Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to the Iranian resistance movement and the Falun Gong sect have protested outside the United Nations. Police have kept the pickets behind blue-painted barricades several blocks from where the leaders' heavily guarded motorcades enter the complex along the East River, and it is doubtful that many dignitaries have caught even a glimpse of the demonstrators. There have been few arrests, and the protests so far have been generally peaceful. The security precautions have been extraordinary. Since the start of the summit, three huge orange sanitation dump trucks filled with sand have been parked in a row blocking First Avenue in front of the world organization.
Concrete barriers shield entrances to the building.
The New York Police Department operates two mobile command posts in large vans in front of the U.N. headquarters. Parked next to them is a Secret Service command post. And when Clinton entertained the world leaders at an evening reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, police closed more than a mile of streets near the site as a security precaution. Global governance is global socialism By Henry Lamb Global governance is a creation of the International Socialist Party, and particularly, of Willy Brandt, former Chair of Socialist International. Brandt invited 30 world leaders to a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on April 22, 1991.