Around 8 p.m. last night some 100 demonstrators marched from Bryant Park to the Sheraton Hotel in midtown, where President Obama was giving a speech at a $1,000-a-head fundraiser . The march, which contributed to an already congested traffic situation because of the presidential visit (and the Rockefeller Center tree lighting !), was peaceful, but after the protesters arrived near the hotel, they were suddenly penned in by police, told they were in a “frozen zone” and not permitted to leave until after the president departed. [ more › ]
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