New York will be seriously different than Boston, for this reason alone. A blogger with some gumption would be tagging along to see what happens, because there is every likihood that the cops will tee off on these people, especially if they don't have locals with them. The NYPD is not the LAPD, but it can be willfully stupid and will arrest people on a lark.
But if you don't think the NYPD would beat women and children, well....I'd do a LOT of praying. During Giuliani's time, a rally in Harlem ended with helicopters and riot police duking it out on streets with kids and women. Honestly, she would do better to ask fo a line of construction workers and forget the monitors, who will watch them being pepper sprayed and dragged off in plastic handcuffs.
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This is the kind of thing people need to bring their digital cameras for and upload on their laptops. Because this will be serious business. And this is only one of the marches. There will be a lot of protests and you better know where to run.
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