Archive for the ‘DNC 2008’ Category
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Recreate 68 Alliance along with the American Indian Movement of Colorado, Escuela Tlatelolco, Code Pink, Troops Out Now Coalition, Tent State University, and others filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court with cooperating attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union. The suit is asking that the City of Denver and ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
As a part of Comedy Central's Indecision 2008 coverage, Jon Stewart will be broadcasting live from the conventions. They're planning to be in Denver, CO during the Democratic National Convention and St Paul, MN during the Republican National Convention.
I wonder how Stewart will cover the demonstrations.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Today's the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and there have been a ton of actions that have stopped business as usual for the day.
Wired had a great post today about San Fransico's Direct Action to Stop the War group. DASW has been using the micro-blogging service called Twitter ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Has domain squatting now turned political? Protesters try out a new form of digital civil disobedience.
Protest organizers from the Denver-based group, Recreate '68, are using the web to play some Abbie Hoffman-style pranks on the Democratic Party. They're fed up with the Democrats for going along with the Republicans and ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Announcing dncdisruption08.org!
The new website is a result of collaboration between Colorado Indymedia and Unconventional Denver, a Denver-based group planning protests against the DNC.
The website already features loads of info on groups currently organizing against the DNC, a closer looks into the inner workings of the convention, resources such as maps ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Last week Recreate '68, Unconventional Denver, and other local groups held a regional consulta in Denver to plan some of the logistics of the protests against the Democratic National Convention in August. The 70 or so activists played ice-breaker games, organized subcommittees, and held some action planning meetings.
As a part ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
On August 24-28, 2008 the Democrats will hold their convention in Denver, CO and shortly afterwards the Republican Convention will take place in St. Paul, MN from September 1 to the 4th. An extensive organizing effort is already underway for mass protests at this year's Republican and Democratic National Conventions. ...
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