Police arrest more than 140 protesters
About 400 anti-war activists converged near Rockefeller Centre in midtown Manhattan, many of them lying on their backs near the intersection of 49th Street and 5th Avenue and others holding signs and chanting “No War, No Oil, No Profit”.
The two-hour peaceful protest, which closed part of 5th Avenue and snarled city traffic, was the latest of several acts of civil disobedience and anti-war demonstrations in New York and other large US cities.
