Archive for the ‘Unconventional Action’ Category

pReNC 5.3 Announced

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The RNC Welcoming Committee announced the second pre-RNC national gathering for May 3 in the Twin Cities. They're calling on groups who are planning to come to the RNC protests from outside the Twin Cities to send a representative (or a handful of representatives) to Minnesota for the weekend. Sounds ...

Colorado Indymedia Launches New Online News Project

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 ...

Unconventional Denver Calls for Super Tuesday Protests

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Unconventional Denver is calling for protests and other actions on "Super Tuesday", the day when 24 states will hold their presidential primaries. These sort of build-up actions have the potential to really set the tone for the protests at the two conventions this summer. I guess we'll have to what ...

Anti-DNC Landmarks in Denver

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 ...