During Thursday’s kickoff protest and march to what is expected to be four days of various demonstrations around the city, those who worked for the entities being protested tended to be unimpressed. Outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building, a handful of employees stuck outside looked on with bemused skepticism.

One noted the irony of the crowd picking that day to protest because inside the chamber, all-day meetings were going on that were addressing non-governmental organizations and nonprofit assistance and operations.