In some United States cities, including Washington, DC, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Pittsburgh and Portland, Oregon, demonstrators blocked traffic in the city centers with the goal of shutting the cities down.
In San Francisco, well over 5,000 protesters, having planned weeks in advance to shut down the city on "Day X" as part of Direct Action to Stop the War, blockaded the Financial District resulting in 2,200 arrests [REF].