Legal Commentary

Protesters Make Denver an Offer

By Jeralyn

Unconventional Denver, an anarchist protest group, says if Denver turns its $50 million security grant over to programs that help the people and calls off its occupation of Denver, it will sit the convention out.

Otherwise, they intend to show the Convention is just a bunch of corporations and lobbyists partying behind closed doors and a wall of heavily armed police. Their goal is to disrupt the spectacle. Democracy is not behind those doors, it's in the streets. That's where hope and change can happen. [More...]

Here's their complete statement. In a nutshell,

Update: Here's my breakdown of yesterday's 71 page federal court decision upholding Denver's planned protest zone.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).