DENVER- The Recreate 68 Alliance has announced its lineup of speakers for the DNC rallies. Among them: Pamela Africa (MOVE), Kathleen Cleaver, Rosa Clemente, Ward Churchill, Jenny Esquiveo (spokesperson for Eric McDavid), Fred Hampton Jr., a recording from Mumia Abu Jamal, Cha Cha Jimenez, Ron Kovic, Cynthia McKinney, Ricardo Romero, Natsu Saito, and a spokesperson for the Cuban Five.
Sunday, August 24:
End the Occupations/End the War March & Rally 9am – 2pm
West Steps of the State Capitol Building to the Pepsi Center
This will be Denver’s largest anti-war, anti-illegal occupations march and rally.
Speakers (Alphabetical):
Ida Audeh – Palestinian Refugee
Kathleen Cleaver – Black Panthers
Ward Churchill – Long-time Author, Activist, and Scholar
Mark Cohen – Re-create 68 Alliance
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. – Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Larry Hales – World Worker’s Party and Re-create 68 Alliance
Larry Holmes – Troops Out Now Coalition
Ron Kovic – anti-war activist, veteran and author of Born On The Fourth of July
Cynthia Mckinney – Green Party United States Presidential Candidate
Glenn Spagnuolo – Re-create 68 Alliance
Bands:
David Rovic – State Capitol Steps, kicking of the rally
M1 and Stic Man from Dead Prez – State Capitol Steps, prior to the march
Blue Scholars – Concert at State Capitol, after the march
Jim Page – State Capitol Steps, during the rally
Monday, August 25:
Freedom March and Rally for Human Rights and Political Prisoners,
10am – 2pm Civic Center Park to the Federal Court House
Speakers (Alphabetical):
Pamela Africa – MOVE Organization
American Indian Movement Spokes Person- Leonard Peltier Defense
Rosa Clemente – United States Vice Presidential Candidate for the Green Party
Kathleen Cleaver – The Panther Nine from San Francisco
King Downing – National Coordinator of the ACLU’s Campaign Against Racial Profiling
Jenny Esquiveo- Spokesperson for Eric McDavid (Political Prisoner)
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. – Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Mumia Abu Jamal – Current Political Prisoner (Recorded from Death Row)
Cha Cha Jimenez- Founder of the Young Lords (Puerto Rican Resistance Prisoners)
Ricardo Romero – National Coordinator for the Mexican Liberation Organization
Natsu Saito – Author, Activist, and Human Rights Scholar (Guantanamo Inmates)
Spokesperson for the Cuban Five
Bands:
** Special Guest Band To Be Announced **
Monday, August 25:
Festival of Democracy, entertainment start time – 3pm
Civic Center Park (free concerts)
Bands:
Savage Family – From Illegally Occupied U.S.
Dinigunim – San Diego
DJ Cavem – Five Points, CO
Moetavation – Five Points, CO
DJ Asar Heru – Brooklyn
Karma – Barbados
Whiskey Blanket – Boulder
Midstate Music – Chicago
Dario Rosa – Boulder
Special Guest Speakers and Poets Between Acts
Tuesday, August 26:
Festival of Democracy, entertainment start time – 3pm
Civic Center Park (free concerts)
Bands:
Debajo Del Agua – Denver
DKO-Electric Horns – Denver
Melanie Susuras Band – Denver
Rebel Diaz – Bronx
The Night Kitchen – Boulder
From The Depths – North Carolina
Black Sheep Brigade – Boulder
Special Guest Speakers and Poets Between Acts
Poets for Monday and Tuesday:
Isis, Ladyspeech, Bianca, Lucifury, Allende, Bobby LeFebre (members from Nationally Ranked Slam Nuba Team 2008)
Additional Speakers Throughout the Week:
Deb Sweet – World Can’t Wait
Mason Tyert – SAFER
Timothy Tipton – Rocky Mountain Caregiver’s Cooperative
Ben Manski – Bring the Guard Home
CHOIR – ‘Acapella Choir with a conscience’ from Oakland/San Francisco
Ramona Africa – MOVE Organization
Tuesday, August 26:
Liberation Soirée at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St. – 8pm Start Time
A benefit concert and party for the Festival of Democracy. A “No More Politics as Usual” Party.
Bands:
Rhythm Vision – Denver
Rebel Diaz – Bronx
DeeJay SD & K DJ Above
Tuesday, August 26:
Phoenician Kabob Restaurant on Colfax and Ivy, 7pm:
Larry Everest – Author of “Oil, Power and Empire”, speaking on “What’s Behind the US Threats on Iran, and How Can We Stop Them”
This is a list of bands and speakers. Protest activities will be going on every day, all week. For more information and scheduled activities go to www.recreate68.org.
This is pretty impressive political organizing done even as the local Colorado Springs’ Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission aligned itself with the national coalition of Democrats and Liberal church folk, the United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ), to try to derail Recreate ’68’s work.
What is especially despicable about the manipulations of these pacifists and Democrats is how they are providing propaganda and camouflage for the police and US government to violently attack demonstrators at the Denver Democratic Party Convention. By splitting away using the guise that there was not sufficient commitment by leaders of Recreate ’68 to their new age religion cult of ‘non violence’, they themselves are helping enable violence from the authoritarian government which they say they oppose.
Shame on them! Further they are actually trying to demobilize people from doing mass protests in order to mobilize them to vote pro-war candidate Barack Obama. Double shame on them for that!
Furthermore, did you notice TOM HAYDEN, need I say of the original Chicago Eight/Seven is speaking for the ARD-allied PEOPLE CALL FOR CHANGE, at an indoor church venue, drawing people away from the streets.
Although I wondered if this was a clever way to involve people who would normally avoid the streets. To hear Hayden they would have to cross the street, before and after…
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President, and Rosa Clemente, Green Party candidate for Vice President are NOT participating in any Recreate ’68 activities.
Both candidates, and the Green Party of Colorado, are refuting this announcement and are stating that neither candidate, nor the Green Party of Colorado, are in any way associated with Recreate ’68, nor will any of their candidates be speaking at or attending any event, nor are they in any way associated with the group Recreate ’68.
Dave, and what is the problem the Green Party has in speaking at this rally?
Dave,
Until we can verify your claim… McKinney and Clemente will have an eager audience on Sunday. Hopefully they aren’t listening to divisive advice from the Green local. Shame on you for trying to discredit fellow activists. When McKinney rocks the house at the rally, I’ll accept your apologies. Meanwhile I suggest you break your laptop over your knee if you can’t stop yourself fomenting a fractured image of what is really a united, peaceful DNC protest effort.
Many of us believe in the same candidates, shouldn’t we stick together?
This below is what one finds if they follow Dave’s link to the Denver Green Party site. Notice that Claire Ryder is behind this sectarianism. Claire is the grand leader of the Denver ARD faction aligned with the national Democratic Party connected UFPJ.
Isn’t this reminiscent of how the Cobb crew derailed the Green Party presidential campaign in 2004 as the Green Party Cobb people asked folk not to vote for the Green presidential candidate but for John Kerry instead?
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from the Denver Green Party site…
Green Party Candidates Not Associated With Recreate ’68
(Denver) In a press statement, and email blast this morning, Recreate ’68 announced that Cynthia McKinney, Green Party candidate for President, and Rosa Clemente, Green Party candidate for Vice President, would be speaking at their rallies.
Both candidates, and the Green Party of Colorado, are refuting this announcement and are stating that neither candidate, nor the Green Party of Colorado, are in any way associated with Recreate ’68, nor will any of their candidates be speaking at or attending any event, nor are they in any way associated with the group Recreate ’68.
Contact:
Claire Ryder
ClaireRyder@cs.com
Claire Ryder, 303-332-7810