Fifth Street between Race and Vine is lined by 78 cops in shields and helmets. Police ring demonstrators at Third and Vine. The reporter says he wants to go to Elm Street. About 30 officers surround a group of protesters at Third and Broadway. You disperse or go to jail.
People start moving out, four at a time.
Union members and anti-globalization demonstrators picket a TABD dinner. A prayer service for economic justice is one of the highlights of N16. The service includes a variety of readings from sweatshop workers, Chinese democracy leaders and even from Don DeLillo's postmodern novel White Noise . Here is the TABD protest at its most articulate, intelligent, forgiving and moving. Police force about 75 protesters and journalists into a tunnel.