Every now and then a group comes through with the giant puppets. It's not all fun and games. The protesters are polite but firm, questioning the pedestrians. A man who says he is an IMF security officer meets a group who, apologetically, tell him he can't pass. He takes it with resignation.
Reports circulate via members of a communications affinity group on bikes.
Late in the morning, about 40 police pour out of a bus and attack the lockdown with their batons. Activist reinforcements arrive and the police retreat, but not before inflicting a couple of broken noses and some broken teeth on the Wesleyan students. Monday morning I check in at the Mobilization's Independent Media Center to find out what's happening. Confrontations flare up between protesters and police and then dissipate as arrests are made or both parties move on. There are also reports of a march originating at the Ellipse.