A number of protest groups made cases for their causes outside the United Nations. Marching to Dag Hammarskjold Plaza and protesting the war in Iraq, the Women Against Torture and the War Resisters League, accented their positions with with T-shirts, buttons and symbolic coffins.

Police took the arrested demonstrators into custody by police after they knelt on the sidewalk in an act of civil disobedience at the rally near the United Nations. One of them, 58-year-old Bill Ofenloch, said they were trying to serve an “arrest warrant” on Bush for “high crimes against humanity.”

Members of the anti-war group Code Pink performed a bit of street theater where a person wearing a Bush mask was arrested.

“What do we say?” shouted Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin. “Arrest the criminal!”

The crowd picked up the chant. Once the arrests were made, the rest of the group began marching downtown. The demonstrators, in orderly fashion, walked along the sidewalks because they lacked a permit for a street march.