I work in downtown Santa Ana. Out of the windows of the offices here, you can observe about 5,000 protesters milling around saying “Yes, we can!” (Though they are yelling it ‘en espanol’ not in English).
From our offices, you can really see how effective horses are at crowd control. No one wants to get too close to a big police horsey!
The crowd is pretty passive, marching around in circles. There really is no way to coordinate the movement of that many people, I don’t think.
I’ve got some photos that I can post when I’m not on this Blackberry.
P.S. I did patronize the local Ralph’s here in Santa Ana, but haven’t managed to fax the receipt into KFI 640’s John and Ken, where they are picking one lucky patron an hour to be reimbursed up to $640.