DNC

This video features Greg Palast speaking on a panel of alternative media dignataries about what we can do to reach a wider audience and be more effective as journalists working outside of the mainstream distribution outlets.   The short answer: "don't be so fucking dull".  This was filmed at The Boston Social Forum, a counter convention of sorts that took place in the days leading up to the Democratic National Convention in 2004.

The video was meant as a prequel to my convention coverage and was filmed and upload the day before the convention started.   I met a great journalist this day and together we scouted the 1st ever instance of a designated caged area called a Protest Pen, a Freedom Cage, etc etc.  No, it wasn't Greg Palast. 

A few hundred people march to expose the Democratic hypocrisy regarding their corporate sponsors.

800 people came out to shake their fists at the corporations that own the Democratic Party before the convention starts; and now most have gone home.

IVAW backed up by 5,000 liberals, peaceniks and anarchists illegally march from the DNC Rage Against the Machine concert to the Pepsi center to demad that they are allowed to read their letter to the delagates.  Unfortuantely these brave men & women still believed they would be dealt with honestly by the DNC and accepted a deal that won them nothing fore our efforts.

IVAW Operation 1St Casualty DNC Tuesday 26th 2008
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Anti Capitalist DNC Protestors being detained Monday night in Denver

http://IVAW.org

Contingents from Code Pink, IVAW, the Green Party and  Anarchists snake marched through downtown Denver without a permit.  Anarchists took the streets and played cat an mouse with the cops all afternoon.

http://MobileBroadcastNews.org

(Saturday Aug. 23rd) DNC protesters prepare for the Democratic Convention.  Free activist trainings and Prohibition Speak Out at Civic Center Park in Denver.  Featuring Drug War Activist Dana Beal and YIPPIE Aaron "Pie Man" Kay.

http://www.yippiemuseum.org
http://recreate68.com/?p=135
http://mobilebroadcastnews.org

August 10th protests against electoral politics at the Pepsi Center in Denver; including a preview of the protest pit fondly refered to as the Freedom Cage.

Word has it that due to lack of camping spots in Denver, the only time protesters will be entering the cage is to sleep.

http://www.comeuptodenver.org/calendar/
http://www.unconventionalaction.org

Full coverage of the streets at the DNC in Boston 2004.
What has changed? What progress have "the people" made?