The marchers arrived there in the morning, greeted by the Frida Bus and some community members to let them in. They did alot of work in the garden; planted new trees, split wood for the regular sweat lodges that take place there, weeded, and built a stone barrier around a small tree outside of the park so that it wouldnt be trampled.

There was a police prescense there all day, and when the march left around 1 in the afternoon, there was a full police escort to take them. The marched through the Bronx, across the 138th st bridge into Manhattan, where the Bronx cops turned over the escort to the Manhattan police.

I wasnt on the march through Central Park, so someone else will have to fill that piece in. But when I arrived at Cenral Park South around 4:30pm, there was a large prescense there that was the DNC2RNC march. It was larger than when I had left it and food was just started to be served.

After food was served and people mingled a bit and chilled out, the press "conference" began. It was more of a statement to the press complete with chantings from the march and a few representative spokespeople. I didnt catch the statement either.

Soon after that the Critical Mass folks came out of the crowd and brought all of their bicycles up to the front and started jamming the sidewalk leading onto the circle. The police werent pleased with this and tried to get things rolling quicker.

Soon enough, after some inspired drumming and chanting from a drum corps, the cyclists took to the streets with the march directly behind. The band of cyclists numbered around 150.

The march had split up into three groups, the front group was the "insurgency" that carried little white flags with messages on them...hopeful messages depicting what people would like to see. Things like "healthy food", or "respect", or any other manner of thing. The insurgencty marched by and numbered around 200.

After the "insurgency" was civil society, carrying march banners and holding different signs and puppets and this contigent numbered around 400.

Then behind them was the rest of the people, people that joined up at Columbus Circle and didnt necessarily know what was going on or folks that just wanted to march without being part of the theatre action. Eventually the Civil SOciety and the rest of the people all molded into the Civil Society group.

The march went pretty smooth down Broadway, the police were aggressively reminding people that they could only take one lane and the march was inspired with many a varied chant and calls to the folks on the sidewalks to join them in the streets.

I think it was around Times Square when the isurgency donned their masks and started stomping in unison, but I could be wrong. And they marched like this for about fifteen blocks before the melded into civil society. The idea for the masks was to make in more Zapatista style.

There didnmt seem to be any real incident with police that I witnessed, and the march made its way to Union Square gradually picking up more people to be around 1500 folks when they arrived there.

This is an incomplete report especially of the march theatre piece. Please post comments correcting this or just write new articles, be the media! Now we are at St Marks church for the after party and I am tired.