I'd estimate 5,000 here. (And, I don't think thousands were protesting the biotech conference at the Moscone Center, http://www.indybay.org/ http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/06/1683334.php >...Several hundred protesters marched up Embarcadero starting at Justin Herman Plaza a little after 2PM. After five or six blocks the police forced everyone onto the sidewalk and arrested a few people after they stepped into the street. The protest went all the way up to Pier 39, but the police blocked the entrances and told protesters they would be arrested if they entered. The tourists at Pier 39 were not allowed to leave by the police until the protest had left the area. The march then looped on back streets to the Embarcadero and went up the sidewalk to Justin Herman Plaza. After the protesters rejoined the larger anti-war protest the police rushed in and tried to arrest someone. Protesters yelled at the police and the police line formed near the ANSWER stage. After perhaps ten minutes the police charged the crowd throwing three young men on the ground (the police stomped on one young man's head leaving a bloody mark above his right eye) After that the crowd slowly dispersed.)
Last yr. the biggest march had 70,000.
As anti-war sentiment tips over 50%, the marches get reduced to the usual suspects. Time is long overdue for a Vietnam Summer project like in '67, to knock on doors of total strangers. That in the Bay Area there was such a low turnout is depressing.
-- Michael Pugliese