The demonstrators have been told they will not be permitted to march down Broad Street, that they'll be arrested if they try. Fifteen minutes before the scheduled start, lines are drawn. About 400 protestors, their ranks swelling by the minute, hold the sidewalk on the south side of City Hall. Across the street an almost equal number of reporters and photographers wait. Philadelphia police on foot, horseback and bicycles stand quietly, waiting for the demonstrators to move.
Wawa employees wander around, wondering who's in the wrong place.
Apparently the KWRU has chosen as its rallying point the site where Wawa plans to construct a mile-long hoagie. The crowd grows, but the journalists are agitating the cops more than the demonstrators, by constantly stepping into the street and snarling traffic. Helicopters hover overhead, the whupwhupwhup of their rotors echoing in the City Hall cavern. 11 o'clock passes. Then suddenly, it begins.