[CIMC-working] count is 2500

[Doug Morris]

Hi folks,
the chicago and global indy sites are down.
I'm going to post the following as a comment to the article I put up after 
site goes live again:

counts are not a minor point... they are a way to gauge interest in the 
issues and are something that people remember:

correct count is 2500
doug

I counted the number of people marching at the start of the protest and at 
the end of it.

I stood and counted rows as people went past, estimated the number per row, 
and added this up.

At the start, there were approximately 1300 people from start to end.

At the end on Michigan, there were approximately 2200 in the march proper 
plus several hundred following along and some more waiting in plaza.  Call 
it 2500.  Certainly 2200-2500.

The 2200 number is cited by organizers. There were a couple of organizer 
type folks standing by me as I counted. They asked what I thought: 2200.  I 
revised that up a little when I took note of the folks walking along the 
march and in the plaza before the march arrived.

These are accurate counts.

On top of this there were 300 or so of the press outside of the march and 
of course... and of course the police that the press are focused on.

See center column of chicago.indymedia.org for links to more coverage and 
discussion of issues.