AP has it wrong, I think. If 20 city blocks = 1 mile, the distance is at least 4 miles, not 3 miles, as stated below. But the press seems to have consistently underreported the crowd at Sunday's big march as well. http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/111179 [has a few photos of:] Protesters in 'unemployment line' from Wall St. to MSG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thousands of protesters, waving pink slips, formed a symbolic unemployment line stretching three miles from Wall Street to the site of the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, a day after police arrested nearly 1,000 anti-GOP demonstrators. The protesters stood peacefully in a single file on a chalk line for 15 minutes along Broadway, raising bright pink flyers that listed unemployment statistics and read: “The Next Pink Slip Might be Yours!” “They’ve done everything they can to enrich the fat cats,” said Bob Keilbach, 62, an engineer. _____ ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html