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About a thousand people have been blocking Market Street at various points since 7:00 am, making lots of noise, overturning newsstands, spray painting "War is Terror" on buildings, doing Yoga for Peace, and chaining themselves together to block the street. We who work here watched them for a while, laughed, then went back to work. If they were intending to shut down the whole city, it has been a complete failure.

Just got back from a lunch time recon. Looked like a normal sunny day in the financial district. People walking around, eating lunch, running their errands. In other words, "business as usual." Complete failure of the beknighted to shut it down. Walked to Market Street which is still shut, but many of the cross streets are open. The police are still hauling away those who refuse to disperse in MUNI busses. The poor men and women of the SFPD looked tired, but are still handling the criminally insane in a completely professional manner. Best sight was of a guy waving an Iraqi flag, it was hard to discern among all the "Palestinian" flags, but it was there--a true symbol of "peace" that. A guy came aroung asking people to sign a petition to impeach Bush, but he didn't ask me; could it have been the coherent look on my face? Didn't get up to the Federal Building so I can't report on the "pukers for peace." Back to business as usual.