Police estimated that about 3,000 demonstrators had been gathered on the port and 4,500 had marched throughout the city; however, a member of the Occupy movement was quoted by the BBC as estimating as many as 30,000 might have taken half.
Perla Haney-Jardine's hippie woman, who sells the acid-dipped cigarette to Cliff Booth, is predicated on "Today" Louise Malone, a hippie who appears within the 1968 documentary Revolution.