Unfortunately, we will not be able to get down to New York for the big demonstration tomorrow. We need to deliver their weekly T passes to our Japanese wards in their Theater District hotel in time for them to get to campus for lunch. The damn things don’t go on sale until 9 am Sunday – we tried to buy them today so we could leave town, but couldn’t.
So we will be reduced to following the action on Cable TV and the internet, like most of our readers. It is shaping up to be a much more interesting story than the demonstrations at the Democratic Conventions. There have already been more arrests than during the entire week in Boston, and the damn things is still two days from the opening gavel. Stay tuned…
(CNN) — Thousands of protesters will face thousands of security officials at the Republican National Convention even before the event begins Monday at Madison Square Garden in New York.
While no one knows how many protesters will descend on the city, officials expect their numbers to dwarf the crowds seen a month ago at the Democratic event in Boston.
More than 215,000 people are expected to take part in a march Sunday that will kick into gear a week of anti-GOP meetings and events.
from CNN