Digging deeper into the Denver protests.....what is it really about?

[madfloridian]

It looks like far more than just protesting Governor Dean in Denver this week. I thought it was just unions, but that appears to be only a part of it. I posted about it earlier, but this seems much broader.

Protesting Dean when he visits Denver to try to get the union stuff fixed...makes me angry.

One of the links is to a site called Infoshop, which appears to be only one. It links to a site called Recreate 68...meaning the 1968 Democratic convention.

http://www.recreate68.org/

Denver DNC 2008 Welcome to the "Re-create 68" website, your virtual activists' Convergence Center for the Denver Democratic National Convention of 2008. This website was created for all the grassroots people who are tired of being sold out by the Democratic Party.

R-68 agrees with the proposition, POTESTAS IN POPULO, "all power comes from the people." What stands between the people and power are the party machines. The parties were devised as a means to represent the people. Today they represent nobody, not even party members, but only party bureaucracy. The people have been left without appropriate institutions for their representation. We intend to create those institutes!

Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained. We will demand change by making the Democratic Convention of 1968 look like a small get together in 2008!

Here is a summary page from a CNN site about the 1968 convention.

Looks interesting.
Brief History Of Chicago's 1968 Democratic Convention

Good luck, Governor Dean. You said Denver would be risky, but worth it.

"Denver is a little risky"

The Democratic chairman will be in Denver on Thursday - in part to celebrate its selection, and in part to quell an increasingly nasty protest by unions over Colorado's business and political climate, which, they say, is anti-labor.

"Denver is a little risky," Dean admits. "But if you don't take risks, you don't win."

Moving the Piggy Bank

I don't feel that I have been sold out, there has not been time enough to judge. But it appears the decision has been made by many already. That's kind of scary that it is already decided.