in new york city autonomous events happened throughout the day, at one protest women "sang and counted the war dead" at the times square military recruiting station which was recently the target of a bomb. outside the new york stock exchange three groups affiliated with the peace action coalition were arrested for blocking traffic and the checkpoints for the stock exchange. carrying "blood-splattered" signs displaying the record profits of companies – like boeing, general dynamics and halliburton – they were trying to make the connection between those who they said were war profiteering and those who are prosecuting the war.