25
. Permits were acquired for holding multiple demonstrations; these included a protest outside
the Gap Thursday and, the biggest event, a march heading east on 59th Street and turning south
down Lexington Avenue Saturday (Baker, 2002a). Just as participants at a conference are given
a program and helpful visitor information on arrival, demonstrators who entered the Welcome
Center at the East Sixth Street Community Center were provided with assistance for their stay.
There were flyers listing the events: in addition to the sixteen scheduled protests over the five
days, events included workshops on civil rights, meetings to make signs and plan protest actions,
and a counter summit to be held at Columbia University.
26
. One woman allowed nine people from Minnesota, Chicago and Kansas City to stay in her
apartment on the Upper West Side (Jacobs, 2002).
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. These sites provide news from reporters not part of the corporate media. There is also a place
to attach comments to articles, which enables a running dialogue to occur concerning the best
ways to fight for social justice (nyc indymedia center, 2002).
28
. In making this request, they noted this could require stopping at fast food restaurants or coffee
bars and picking up spoons and cups, but ’this is not illegal, since such products are usually left
out for customer use, with no signage prohibiting patrons to remove [sic.] more than one of said
product.’
Convention