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Come to Denver when the Democrats Meet: Protest August 23-28

August 10, 2008 by Anonymous

Aug 23 2008 8:00 am

Come to Denver when the Democrats Meet: Protest August 23-28

http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4...

Unending War & Threats on Iran
Torture
Attacks on Women's Right to Abortion and Birth Control
War Crimes
Gestapo-like Raids on Immigrants

Many groups based in Denver are planning events during the DNC.

World Can't Wait will support many of those actions, and in addition, is planning events related to Bringing the Bush Program to a HALT.

Find calendars of many events at:

Recreate68 : Recreate68.org

Alliance for Real Democracy: realdemocracy2008.org

Unconventional Denver: dncdistuption.org

Only you -not your government- can bring any of this to a halt. The only realistic course is for the people of the U.S. to taking meaningful and independent political action to resist the machinery of war and the fascist direction that has emerged. Come to Denver for a week of protest that includes marching to stand with immigrants under assault and counter-protests to the week of anti-abortion actions of the Christian right. Join in contingents, film showings, street protests, strategy sessions, and more.

Why Go to Denver?

The World Can’t Wait shedule of events is below. Some other info about the week:

World Can’t Wait will have a booth at the Festival of Democracy Aug 24-28, where Recreate 68 will be based in Civic Center Park.
Every evening, World Can't Wait will sponsor discussions on hot topics. Details will be posted soon.

Saturday August 23:
Rock the Bells Concert: World Can’t Wait outreach at Fiddler's Green Ampitheatre in Evergreen CO (details TBA)
Confront the ANTI-Abortionists! Two anti-abortion groups, the “Christian Defense Coalition” and “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust” demonstrate at the Democratic National Convention. Their plans include a protest at the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver .
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion”.

The anti-abortion movement, with support from the Bush regime, has succeeded in laying the legal basis, constructing the ethical arguments and creating a cultural atmosphere where a woman’s access to abortion and birth control is hanging by a thread.

Should we ignore them and they’ll go away? Where has that passivity EVER gotten us?

You might think the Bush Regime has done all the damage it possibly can to reproductive rights. But they are not done yet. And let’s be honest: at a time when birth control and abortion are in more danger than at any point since Roe V. Wade, it is widely acknowledged that the Democrats have surrendered the field and would prefer to change the subject.

World Can’t Wait plans to confront the anti-abortion activists during the DNC. Here is their list of scheduled:

Friday August 22 at 7pm: Prayer/Rally To Be Announced

Saturday Aug. 23: 9am: Planned Parenthood at 7155 E. 38 Avenue, Denver. Anti-abortion protesters plan to be at Denver ’s newest Planned Parenthood clinic. Planned Parenthood has a scheduled community event at that location for the same day. World Can’t Wait will support the clinic and confront the antis. Bring banners, signs, etc. to show your opposition to these anti-woman fanatics.

Noon: The Anti's plan to be at Civic Center Park.

1pm: Prayer at Pepsi Center , including the laying of roses around the building

6pm: Antis will vigil at Skyline Park (near Pepsi Center)

World Can’t Wait will announce counter protest plans.

Sunday August 24
9am to 6pm

World Can’t Wait is calling for, and organizing, a massive anti-war outpouring in the street of Denver.

Join the World Can’t Wait Contingent at the End All Occupations Home and Abroad March. (March will begin at the WEST STEPS OF THE CAPITOL and end on Speer Blvd in front of the Pepsi Center)

The Bush Regime, on the basis of outrageous lies, has waged a murderous and utterly illegitimate war on Iraq and Afghanistan , with Iran now in their sites. Seven years of the Bush Regime have radically altered the shape of U.S. society and locked in a global trajectory of wars for empire with no regard for human cost or conscience. The world is shocked by the crimes and destruction the American people have allowed to be carried out in our names.

And let’s get real here: the Democratic leadership has colluded with these crimes.

5:00 pm CODE PINK: Freeze Against the War on Iran

7:00 pm World Can’t Wait sponsors O ATTACK ON IRAN! Art & inspiration against endless war for empire
It was wrong to go into Iraq. It has been wrong to stay in Iraq. It is wrong not to get out now. It is wrong to escalate the war in Afghanistan and to threaten war with Iran.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater

119 Park Ave West Denver. For Tickets and Info: (303) 295-1759

Monday August 25 - All Day:

Human Rights/Free All Political Prisoners Day

Civic Center Park and other areas will have feeder marches. 9am

Join the WCW Orange Jumpsuit Contingent! One of the most egregious parts of the Bush Program –and the Democrats’ collusion with it- is the legalization of torture. People of conscience act when torture has been legalized and when war crimes are being carried out in our names.

The DNC will nominate its candidate for commander in chief of an empire that has legalized torture and secretly rendered prisoners to other countries that torture. Let's dramatize opposition to the US torture state.
7:00 pm: What's Behind the US Threats on Iran, and How Can We Stop Them? Location TBA
Larry Everest, author of "Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda"
Tuesday AUGUST 26: – Immigrant Rights March has been changed to Thursday Aug. 28

7:00 pm: Film: "Iran is Not the Problem" by Aaron Newman, http://iranisnottheproblem.org/

Mercury Theater, 1308 Pearl, Denver

Wednesday AUGUST 27: No Warming-Plans TBA

Thursday AUGUST 28: NO BORDERS! IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MARCHNo Ice Raids! No Militarization of the Border: No Detentions! No Human Being is Illegal!

March Step-off at 9am
2855 W. Howard PL. (Rude Park) Rally to follow @ La Alma /Lincoln Park (W. 12th Ave and Mariposa St)

World Can’t Wait will be marching to demand an immediate end to the Gestapo-style ICE raids on immigrants and families that create a climate of terror in immigrant communities and workplaces all over the country. We demand an end to the terrorizing and the criminalization of a whole people! No human being is illegal! As new detention facilities which can house hundreds of thousands are constructed within U.S. borders; as walls go up between the US and Mexico; as the border is patrolled by this government in collaboration with armed vigilante groups who hunt migrants down with viciousness, we stand and say no! No militarization of the border! No detentions! No ICE raids! Bring this to a halt! Join with the World Can’t Wait on Aug 28 to give voice to these demands.
EVENING: Obama Nomination Acceptance Speech Invesco Center (Mile High Stadium) 75,000+ to attend.Join in bringing the No Attack on Iran message.

Open Newswire

Zhibin Gu: China entrepreneurship, open society revolution vs Communist dynasty: history, politics, economy, and corruption
8 hours 25 min ago
Anonymous

George Zhibin Gu summarizes the history of China's Communist Dynasty:

(George Zhibin Gu of China is an author of several new books, including: 1. China's global reach, 2. China and the new world order, 3. Made in China.)

The past 60 years of China's Communist history can be divided roughly into two phases.

The first phase, between 1949 and 1978, was this: the Communist bureaucracy had totally destroyed society, the economy and the culture. This was done by a total bureaucratic monopoly over all of nation's wealth, labor, markets, organizations and institutions. Furthermore, it completely destroyed the free press and the law. But this unprecedented bureaucratic domination immediately produced unprecedented man-made disasters in world history, not just China's. The disasters include endless violence and terror, the creation of the state sector and people's communes, the total bureaucratization of media, education, and thought.

In the end, beginning in 1958, the regime wanted to have a total bureaucratic miracle in the so-called Great Leap Forward (1958-60), and record disasters emerged all at once. Record deaths of some 50 million people occurred in the period of 1958-62, killing some 50 million people by an unprecedented famine as well as a record oganized violence.

What is more, these unprecedented miseries turned out to be the very beginning of bureaucratic disasters. Worse than the famine, three bureaucratic wars emerged against society and the people in the period of 1959-78, which ended to destroy countless millions of lives, or even more, by organized violence, not to mention a near total destruction of culture, education, thinking, wealth and all other good things in life.

Responding to Harmful Government Inaction, Protestors Stop Blasting on Coal River Mountain
1 day 20 hours ago
Anonymous

PETTUS, W. Va. – Early this morning two concerned citizens, Dea Goblirsch and Nick Martin, locked down to a drill rig on Coal River Mountain’s Bee Tree mountaintop removal site, effectively stopping blasting. Two others, Grace Williams and Laura Von Dolen, joined them in direct support, holding a banner with the message “Save Coal River Mountain”.

These nonviolent protestors have taken this action to bring attention to the extreme danger facing residents of the Coal River Valley from blasting near the Brushy Fork Impoundment. They plan to stay locked down until law enforcement removes them.

Resident of Rock Creek, W Va., Delbert Gunnoe, stated his concerns with the blasting, “You know when they put a blast over there, and it shakes the windows over here, at what, ¾-a-mile distance, imagine what it does over there.” Gunnoe continued, “if [the impoundment] did bust…what would be the destruction? The town of Whitesville would no longer exist.”

The four are fearful of the blasting that Massey Energy began in late October. These blasts are 200 feet from the Brushy Fork Impoundment, permitted to hold nine billion gallons of toxic coal slurry. The impoundment sits atop miles of hollow, abounded underground mines, further endangering its integrity. By Massey’s own estimates, roughly 998 people will die should the dam break. The emergency evacuation plan states that a 40-foot wall of sludge, cresting at 72 feet, will flow through the valley, reaching 20-feet-high about 15 miles down the road. Apart from the initial flood, the impact of this potential spill would be felt along the Coal River’s 88 miles.

EVIDENCE THAT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WELCOMES FBI INTEL OPERATIONS AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWER
2 days 20 hours ago
gsosbee

The universities across the nation (and AG) do more for the fbi/cia than assist in the search for foreign terrorists; today our colleges and universities directly encourage their campus police and civilian employees to engage in unlawful intel operations against whistleblower
GERAL SOSBEE.

 

 

 

In November, 2009, the Texas Attorney General (AG) grants near blanket authority (in Case number OR2009-16316 & Case ID#367454) to the University Of Texas Police (UTP) and Harlingen, Texas (HTP) Police to withhold from Open Records (OR) disclosure the key data in their possession relating to Geral Sosbee. The AG also states in each opinion that the AG has no authority beyond the scope of the OR statutes. The AG thus hides from his responsibility as a citizen and human being for civil and human rights violations behind the the OR guidelines ( which are designed to allow the police to engage in witch hunts, stalking, harassment, fraudulent stings and other crimes as I have documented at many pages of www.sosbeevfbi.com.) I have also provided the AG with evidence of ongoing felonies against my person (continuing in Texas and other locations for the past decade); by the AG letters referenced above the fbi now gains the AG approval and authority to use UT employees (including UTP) in efforts to silence or kill me; see for example the specifics of some of my reports at

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html

 

Evening of Solidarity for Dr. Mutulu Shakur
2 days 20 hours ago
denverabc

An Evening of Solidarity for Mutulu Shakur
Presented by Denver and Aurora CopWatch, Sisters of Color United for Education, and Denver ABC

Saturday, November 28th
Sisters of Color 2895 8th Ave, Denver, CO (8th and federal across the street from the bus yard)
7:30-12ish
Sliding Scale 1-5$ (if you ain't got it don't let it stop you from coming)

Teach-in by Professor Ward Churchill

Live Music by:
Mike Wird
Ietef
Debajito (of Debajo Del Agua)

Hosted by Shareef Aleem

Please join us on Saturday, November 28th to stand in solidarity with Dr Mutulu Shakur before his appeals hearing on Monday, November 30th at the super-maximum Federal prison in Florence, CO.

Dr. Shakur is a New Afrikan (Black) man whose primary work has been in the area of health. He is a doctor of acupuncture and one of the most prolific, committed and conscious freedom fighters and political prisoners to whom the Black liberation struggle has given birth.

Since the age 16, Dr. Shakur has been a part of the New Afrikan
Independence Movement. As a part of this movement Dr. Shakur has been a target of the illegal Counterintelligence Program carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (COINTELPRO). This was a secret police strategy used in the U.S. starting in the 1960's to destroy and neutralize progressive and revolutionary organizations. It is believed that Dr. Shakur's resistance to this program led to his arrest and trial.

"Straight ahead, stiff resistance"

contact info: 970.302.7349/miketruswell@yahoo.com
www.mutulushakur.com
www.dare2struggle.org

The Shortwave Report 11/20/09 Listen Globally
3 days 14 hours ago
Anonymous

 Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (November 20) is up at the website
http://www.outfarpress.com/outfa... in both broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quickdownload or streaming form (4.9MB) (28:59)
(NEW! If you have access to Audioport.org there is a higher quality version posted up there {26.7MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.p...)

Water and Imperialism
3 days 18 hours ago
NickB

(www.raimd.wordpress.com)

Water is essential, in various ways, to all human activity. Water is something that humans, literally, cannot do without. Every human needs water in order live and to have a good life. Societies need water in order to be provide for the survival of their populations. Usable water, as a resource, is finite and distributed unevenly across the planet. Most societies have difficulty providing water to their populations, especially in the Third World. The inability to access water is referred to as the water crisis.

la virgen de Guadalupe y los curas
3 days 20 hours ago
Anonymous

LA VIRGEN DE LA GUADALUPE ES DE TODOS LOS MEXICANOS, NO DE LOS CURAS

La Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (CEM) no está de acuerdo en que los Mexicanos utilicemos a la Virgen de la Guadalupe, como sucedió en la marcha de SME el pasado 11 de noviembre (2009) por “manipular el sentimiento religioso”, se ha afirmado en varias ocasiones desde que concluyó la 88ª Asamblea Plenaria del CEM. Los curas, junto con los políticos y las grandes transnacionales se han adueñado de nuestro país y de nuestros símbolos.

¿Ya se les olvidó a los curas que la Virgen de Guadalupe es el único símbolo religioso auténticamente Mexicano? ¿Ya se les olvidó que ellos llegaron con Hernán Cortés a robar y a imponernos su cruz a sangre y fuego? La Virgen de Guadalupe es Tonantzin y es nuestra, aunque no les guste a los extranjeros como ellos.

Lo que los curas del CEM no quieren es que el pueblo Mexicano, unido al SME, siga la trayectoria de don Miguel Hidalgo y les arrebate la jugosa ganancia.

Yo les pido a los curas del CEM que ya no nos “salven”.
¡¡Larguense de aquí!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense!! ¡¡Larguense de México y de todo este continente!!
Josefa Ortiz
http://josefaortiz.hpage.com/sme...

 

PRESIDENT OBAMA ~ TAX EXEMPT U.S. FOUNDATIONS OF OUR AMERICAN WEALTHY ELITE HAVE BECOME TAX EVASION FOUNDATIONS THAT NEED NEW FEDERAL GUIDLINES.....
4 days 16 hours ago
Anonymous

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAX EXEMPT SLUSH FUND CHARITIES(FOUNDATIONS) FOR OUR U.S. WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS WE ALL KNOW  are QUITE COMMON AND COSTING THE U.S.GOVERNMENT BILLIONS IN POSSIBLE TAX REVENUE.

***MANY OF THESE SAME AMERICAN WEALTHY ELITE NOT ONLY HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER THEIRTX EVADING  FOUNDATIONS BILLIONS,BUT ALSO FIND IT NECESSARY TO HIRE LOBBYISTS TO ATTEMPT THE DIRECT CONTROL OVER VARIOUS USES OF AMERICAN TAX PAYERS TAX $$$ ???

WEALTHY ELITE AMERICANS HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER OUR U.S.CONGRESSIONAL TAX DOLLAR SPENDING WITH THEIR BEHIND THE SCENE LOBBY MONIES... AND ARE CONTINUING TO DENY MIDDLE~CLASS AND WORKING POOR AMERICANS PROPER HEALTH ~ CARE , PROPER LEGAL PROTECTIONS IN AMERICAN FAMILY COURTS,CIVIL COURTS,& FEDERAL APPEALS FROM STATE COURTS. **THOUSANDS OF POORER AMERICANS ALL ACROSS AMERICA ARE LOSING PARENTING AND VISITATION RIGHTS WITH THEIR CHILDREN, ARE BEING FALSELY IMPRISONED, WRONGFULY EXECUTED,LOSING THEIR HOMES OR APARTMENTS ETC...

** IS THIS REALLY WHAT MANY SAY APPEARS TO BE THE FORMATION OF A NEW WORLD ORDER IN AMERICA THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO BREAK DOWN AND DESTROY AMERICAN FAMILIES AND ESTABLISHED FAMILY VALUES ACROSS OUR GREAT COUNTRY ???

Chickenhawk Hall of Shame
5 days 19 hours ago
Anonymous

<p>Compiled by <a href="http://www.nhgazette.com/">The New Hampshire Gazette</a></p>

<p>When an American male (or an especially belligerent female) makes the challenging transition from late adolescence into early adulthood, he is faced with many decisions. One certain, specific combination of choices will result in his becoming a chickenhawk: choosing to “support” war, while also choosing not to serve in the military. His motto becomes: “Let’s you and him go fight; I’ll hold your coat.”</p>

<p>Depending on external circumstances, such an individual may become one of three varieties of chickenhawk:</p>
<p>• If there is no draft, and the nation is at peace, the individual becomes a Common Chickenhawk;</p>
<p>• If there is a draft, and the nation is at peace, the individual becomes a Chickenhawk First Class;</p>
<p>• If the there is a draft, and the nation is at war, the individual becomes a Chickenhawk First Class with Distinguished Fleeing Cross.</p>

<p>We currently have 132 Chickenhawks listed in our database. Here they are, listed chronologically by date of birth. <a href="http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks/?sort_list=0">CLICK HERE</a> to see them listed alphabetically.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nhgazette.com/nominate/?id=-1&action=new">Nominate a Chickenhawk</a></p>

<p>posted by the <a href="http://wintersoldier.org">Thomas Paine Project</a> (FYI: the organization is run by veterans)</p>

The False Hope of J Street and the Gentile Problem
6 days 17 hours ago
Anonymous

Philip Giraldi on Antiwar.com produced an excellent article on J Street, the new “pro-Israel, pro-peace” alternative to AIPAC, which last month held its inaugural conference in Washington. [“My Problem with J Street,” http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/10/28/my-problem-with-j-street/]

The organization’s name, J Street, a lettered street which does not exist in Washington, DC, is presumably an effort to identify with K Street, which is considered the central location for lobbying firms in Washington, with the “J” presumably standing for “Jewish,” since “J” is not the only unused letter for Washington street names.

J Street has been excoriated by the neocons and other hardline Zionist rightists as being anti-Israel, while it has been hailed as a great hope for the future by many proponents of a more balanced, less pro-Israel, American policy in the Middle East. Giraldi, however, stands virtually alone in seeing things in a much different light. To him, J Street is “just another Israel advocacy group with a slightly more progressive and politically correct and therefore acceptable message.” In short, with its moderate, pro-peace image, J Street can more effectively promote the policies of the Israeli government, to the detriment of the Palestinians and the United States.

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