Global Economy's New Guardian D.C.'s Answer to IMF, World Bank Protests: Miles of Chain-Link
By David Montgomery Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 30, 2001; Page C01
The D.C. police are old hands at crowd control, but they never went this far before. They never boosted their arsenal with a weapon as tricky and volatile as a great big shiny silver chain-link monster anti-protester peace device, a fence designed to keep globalization-haters from getting at globalizers among the bankers and trade ministers gathering at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Depending on what part of the country you're from, you might know it as a cyclone fence or a hurricane fence. Pick your storm.
The fence will be nine feet tall. It will have a perimeter of 2 1/2 miles. It will enclose 220 downtown acres and block 27 streets, according to preliminary plans. Corralled will be: the White House, parts of Foggy Bottom and George Washington University, four apartment buildings, a church, dozens of stores, restaurants and offices. [snip]