From the ArcaMax Publishing, Politics Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/politics/s-367029-535216
DENVER (UPI) -- Legions of protesters, frustrated by a mounting list
of problems, plan to protest at the Democratic National Convention in
Denver this summer.
Anarchists, socialists and pacifists are among the thousands of
protesters planning to take to city streets, The Denver Post reported
Sunday.
"There will be a lot of people at this convention who are progressive
and who are angry at the Democrats," said Virginia Trabulsi, who has
worked for years with the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice.
Other protesters plan to pull Federal Emergency Management Agency
trailers up from Mississippi to draw attention to the continuing
post-Hurricane Katrina struggles.
Then there is the Backbone Campaign, which will haul 70-foot-tall
political puppets called The Chain Gang: prison-suited images of U.S.
President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
A group called The People Call for Change plans to hold a series of
events in churches and community centers to offer a hopeful vision of
the future.
"The thing that is driving all of us is that we want to reclaim our
country, to restore it and make it be a government and a country by
and for the people," said Ron Forthofer, who founded the group.