A summit of protest. (On the Line).New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Thousands took to the streets of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to protest the World Economic Summit, centered at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on New York's Fifth Avenue. Activists were undeterred despite local editorials warning protesters that the city was not in the mood for trouble and despite the presence of an estimated 4,000 police officers assigned to buffer the haves from the have-nots. The gathering against globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , corporate greed, and the war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act was peaceful, with few arrests. |
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