All successes and failures are relative. The way we measure a victory or disappointment is almost more important than whether people actually deem victory or defeat.

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Unity, But Not Lockstep

While the view from outside the Pepsi Center in Denver Colorado is one of a party trying desperately to heal, the convention inside is a very different matter.

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Protest This!

Recreate 68?“I can’t figure out why, for the life of me, that somebody would want to re-create ’68.  Is it the riots or tear gas — or perhaps the assassinations? Or maybe the election of a Republican president? I’m not sure the name was complete …

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Recreate 68 scheduled a "major" protest for "prisoners' rights" on Monday afternoon. The event seriously fizzled, with perhaps 200 protesters at most. The march ended outside the Federal Courthouse in downtown Denver.

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Denver, Colorado — With the Democratic Convention coming to town, Denver police had braced themselves for some 50,000 protesters.

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When protesters clashed violently with police in Chicago in 1968, the United States was neck deep in an unpopular war. Forty years later, the country is in a similar situation as the Democratic National Convention comes to Denver.

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Link is to a .pdf of the master schedule of protest events and locations.

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From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. the week of the convention, parades will run from Bannock Street to Colfax Avenue and end on Speer Boulevard in front of the Pepsi Center, the convention's site. Scott said the route can handle 10,000 people marching every 45 minutes.

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A 50,000-square-foot demonstration zone that will have two layers of chain-link fences wrapped around it during the Democratic National Convention has been deemed the "freedom cage" by the leader of a group planning to march during the four-day event.

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A close ally of the local war-protest group Re-create 68, which is organizing for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is severing its ties, the group told R-68 Monday.

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Well it looks like Ward Churchill and other anti war protesters want to have a party (not) in Denver, whether the democrat convention wants it or not.

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Those lovable, aggressive peace-loving anti-war factions of the left are ready for the 1968 presidential race.

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Community activists are planning to meet on the weekend before Martin Luther King Jr.

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The 1960s era ended with riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Anti-war protestors demonstrated throughout the selection of the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party. The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F.

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