Recreate 68’s anarchist faction, the younger protest participants represented by Unconventional Denver, got their unviolent say in a RMN article today: Anarchists promise to sit out DNC. They offered to halt their DNC disruption efforts if the City of Denver would spend its 50 million dollar security grant on social problems instead. It’s an offer Denver cannot accept, but in making it, the anarchist activists were able to spell out why they object to the Democratic Party’s business as usual, and what social change they would like to see. Nothing extreme about it.
Here is the UNCONVENTIONAL DENVER Call to Action:
The Queen City is heating up as anarchists, witches, clowns, Iraq vets, artists, SDSers, radical queers, immigrants, Earth First!ers, rebel Democrats, parents, precarious workers and others are making it known that, come August, the Democrats’ attempt at co-opting our energies and power will fall short as we make it clear that change will come from below not above, in the streets and not in their stadiums.
Here’s the latest call to action from Unconventional Denver to help maximize our impact this August.
sunday the 24th { RECLAIM THE STREETS. RESIST MILITARIZATION}
Late Afternoon: After the 10:00am Recreate 68 anti-war march and the early afternoon Alliance for Real Democracy Funk the War celebration, a raging party in resistance to the militarized occupation of Denver and the world will reclaim public space and spread the festivities onto the streets. Be ready to take the rowdy celebration to the doorsteps of delegate hotels etc.monday the 25th { NO BUSINESS AS USUAL}
Evening: Meet at the Civic Center at 6pm to join the anticapitalist march or participate in organized and decentralized actions that will actively disrupt the capitalist corruption and cronyism of the two party system by targeting specific fundraisers, delegate parties and corporations backing the DNC. come ready for quick decentralized actions spanning the downtown area at a variety of risk levels.tuesday the 26th { CONFRONT THE SPECTACLE}
Afternoon: As delegates are arriving at the Pepsi Center, snake marches will converge on the entrances through the fence of the no-protest zone in order to create spaces for different levels of delegate movement disruption. Flying squads will assist the disruption and create distractions as we bring their party to a halt.wednesday the 27th { ECO ACTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES}
All day: direct action against ecological destruction. We will create solutions to global warming without the politicians by shutting down sources of greenhouse gas emissions and corporations who destroy the earth (and fund the Democrats). we will also engage in creative resistance outlining solutions and alternatives; bike bloc! car free zones! guerrilla gardening!thursday the 28th { NO BORDERS. NO ONE IS ILLEGAL}
Morning: Join this national mobilization for immigrants rights and help us draw connections between the struggles of immigrant communities and the struggle against global capitalism. Meet at Rude Park at 10:30am. This will be a low-risk event safe for all people regardless of immigration status. so play nice.
E X A C T T I M E S A N D L O C AT I O N S T B A .
S TAY T U N E D F O R M O R E I N F O
You have a reasonable analysis about this, but don’t you think calling the participants of Unconventional Denver “kids” is a bit condescending. Most people involved in that group are grown-assed adults, who like most, are exploited for their labor and are simply acting accordingly. I think the stunt at the city and county building was just an ironic publicity move, not necessarily an accurate portrayal of the real movement of the exploited to produce human utopia through a dehirearchicalizing and deterritorializing autonomous social force.
Furthermore, why is Unconventional Denver the anarchist-faction of R68? I thought UD was rather the “Denver chapter of Unconventional Action” which is a US-wide network of anarchist/anti-authoritarians organizing to disrupt the spectacle of politics in this country and articulate revolution as the only reasonable option to change our conditions. My apologies for my harshness, but as someone who finds affinity with UA, it’s troubling to see our position subsumed by the liberal-left, which in my opinion has proven only its impotence. We are not activists nor “protesters”. We are a force.
I stand corrected of very sloppy over-simplification, UA is its own force, sorry. But I mean KIDS as a compliment about its energy level.