“The New York Times estimated that the crowd included about 700 attendees, but noted that only a third of the designated protest area was full”.
The “attendees” went into the designated area but were so far back they could not hear or see anything. The second pen was separated from the first (with the stage at the front) by traffic heading east on 30th street. Half of those who went into the second pen left and gathered on the east side of 8th avenue between 30th and 31st. Lou Dobbs even acknowledge that when he turned and said hello to us on the other side of the street.