Reply #8: Hard to tell. There were multiple staging points around lower Manhattan.

[Smarmie Doofus]

UFT (NYC teachers union) had what appeared to be in excess of 5,000 at our pre-march rally.( @City Hall; about 10 blocks north of Wall Street) Other unions and community groups assembled elsewhere and may or may not have joined the main (UFT) march. One large union... I believe it was 1199 ( municipal workers).... joined us halfway along the route. From what I could see they were several thousand strong.

Cops were diverting the march this way and that. They may have prevented all the protestors in lower Manhattan from marching as one.This may have been intentional or just organizational confusion or a combo of both. Part of the plan was to create a disruption in the Wall Street area around 5PM on a workday so that Wall Street would TAKE NOTICE. At this we succeeded.

Our part of the march ended at Battery Park. There appeared to be only a few hundred gathering there by that time. There was no program or rally scheduled for post march so a lot of marchers had apparently gone home by that time. It was also *cold*. It's right on the water.