Are you in Denver this week?
Meet Dennis and Elizabeth on TuesdayDear Friends,
Yesterday, kicked off what promises to be a great week for Kucinich supporters as we arrived in Denver for the Democratic National Convention. We will be reporting daily from Denver so keep an eye on our website for updates!
Tomorrow, Tuesday, Dennis will address the Democratic National Convention on the pressing issue of the Economy. Be sure to tune in at around 6:00pm ET.
This week too, both the New York Times Magazine (Sunday August 23) and the Washington Post Magazine (Sunday August 31) have special feature articles on your Voice in Congress, Dennis Kucinich.
Dennis will also be on a number of other shows this week including the Bill Maher Show, CNN, The Randi Rhodes Show, Hannity and Colmes. We will give you Dennis’ media appearance notifications on Twitter. (sign up to Twitter for the Kucinich feed here)
If you are in Denver this week, Dennis and I would like to meet you. We will be upstairs at the SkyLark Lounge on Tuesday night from 9pm – 10pm. It’s just going to be a fun and informal gathering.
RSVP necessary
SkyLark Lounge
Tag: DNC
Aug 26 2008
Kucinich to address the DNC on Tuesday
Aug 25 2008
The Sanctuarysphere Invades the Democratic National Convention
Originally posted on Citizen Orange.
Nativists beware! At this moment, migrant bloggers from across the nation are invading the Democrat National Convention in Denver, Colorado.
They bring crime and disease with them. Thinking freely is their crime, and they are spreading the infectious diseases of truth and justice. These migrants are taking jobs and traffic away from other bloggers. They are parasites taking advantage of free services like wireless internet connections. They should all be locked up in Denver’s, “Gitmo on the Platte” and deported back to their home states.
Oh man, I could keep this parody of nativist speak going, but it wouldn’t do justice to what my esteemed blogmigos are in the midst of accomplishing.
Liza Sabater, of Culture Kitchen, has been able to put a remarkable team of bloggers together to cover the DNC through her connections with Kenneth Cole’s Awearness Blog. Kai Chang of Zuky and Nezua of The Unapologetic Mexican are part of the team. Maegan La Mala of Vivir Latino, and Kety Esquivel of Cross Left, will also be making apperances.
I would be remiss if I didn’t mentioned that my esteemeed and respected friend, XP of Para Justicia Y Libertad, was able to find his way to Denver through his connections with Scholars and Rogues.
If these names seem familiar to you, look no further than The Sanctuary’s Who We Are page to refresh your memory. The Sanctuarysphere has invaded the Democrat National Convention.
Aug 25 2008
The Big Green Tent
In the coming days, for those not actively on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) floor, The Big Tent will be one of (if not the) places to be. And, much of the Tent will be colored Green. Much of The Big Tent’s agenda will focus on Green initiatives, energy efficiency, and Global Warming.
Looking at this schedule makes this blogger envious of those able to attend.
And, a few tinges of off-green makes this same blogger concerned.
Aug 15 2008
Gitmo On The Platte: The Police State Lives In Denver (Updated)
cross-posted from The Dream Antilles
Just in case you thought that exercising your Constitutional Right to assemble in Denver, engage in non-violent protest and perhaps participate in civil disobedience at the Democratic National Convention was going to be easy and humane, the NY Times informs in an article entitled, “Grim Warehouse Set To Process Convention Arrests,” that is not to be the case. The Government has set up a mini-Gitmo to handle pesky protesters who get arrested in Denver. And they’re telling you about it now, so you’ll reconsider your plans. And maybe stay home.
Individuals arrested at the Democratic National Convention will be processed at an industrial warehouse with chain-link cells topped by razor wire, a facility some have compared to the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. /snip
The Denver sheriff’s office, which operates city and county jails, insists anyone taken to the center will be there only a few hours while they’re fingerprinted, issued a court date and released after posting bail. Others will be transferred to facilities designed for longer detentions.
”Of course if the numbers are overwhelming, that’s all going to be out the door,” said Capt. Frank Gale, a sheriff’s spokesman. ”If we’re inundated with a bunch of civil unrest, it doesn’t matter how well we prepare. If we get severe numbers it’s going to take us forever” to process those in custody. /snip A sign [at the facility] read: ”Electric stun devices used here.”
Gale said each cell will be about 20-by-20 feet. He refused to say how many people could be processed there. /snip
ACLU-Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein said city officials told him detained protesters will be taken by bus to the facility, about 2 miles northeast of downtown. Those who are unable or refuse to post bail will be taken to a downtown city jail to await a court date.
Silverstein said warehouse cells won’t have running water, bathrooms or telephones. Gale said deputies will escort anyone needing those services.
Great. A mini-Gitmo on the Platte. 20 x 20 cells with an unknown number of people in them, for an unknown period of time, without food, water or toilets. And the idea that if there are too many people, whatever planning there was would be overwhelmed. And then those incarcerated would be stuck.
May 31 2008
Donna Brazile before the DNC Rules Panel: “My Mama Taught Me to Play by the Rules” Updated
Perhaps the most poignant statement of today’s DNC Rules Panel, was offered by Donna Brazile, Superdelegate and Panel Committee Member. Brazile’s comment came as a counter to Governor Blanchard, Hillary Clinton supporter. Blanchard denies the Michigan election was a “flawed primary” as Congressman Bonior and others pointed out:
“You must NOT turn you back on our loyal state,” said Blanchard. The candidates taking their names off the ballot “was a knowing, willing decision. It doesn’t make the election flawed. It makes a flawed strategy.”
Brazile, driving home the obvious, stated that “Changing the rules in the middle of the game is called cheating.”
Donna Brazile: “My Mama Taught Me to Play by the Rules.”
May 30 2008
DNC Blogging: Congrats to LiA & Other Great Progressive Blogs!
For all my (myriad) frustrations with the Democratic Party, sometimes they get it right correct: my home state’s premier progressive blog, Left in Alabama, will be live blogging from this year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Here’s “mooncat’s” announcement (hot off the presses) of getting word of LiA’s being credentialed to live blog from Denver.
Well, Left in Alabama and about 120 other blogs from around the country. Things got a bit sticky a few weeks ago. I don’t know, and frankly don’t care to know, all the inside story on this (several stories here and orange covered that, I think) when some very worthy blogs were frozen-out passed-over (through inadvertent neglect, I think, not through intentional sinisterness – thus my point about “frozen out” not being the correct term for what happened), but that’s all been fixed and word’s just come down from on high that LiA and many other great, state-based blogs are now credentialed and going to Denver.
Thanks are in order to many state party leaders, both here in Alabama and around the country — who listened to, and worked with, the people “in the trenches”, their progressive, hard-working, blogging constituents. They went into action and worked with the blogosphere and the DNC to get this whole kerfuffle worked out, amicably and righteously.
The moral of the story: that screw-ups or oversights happen is not the issue; how decision-makers handle, and react to, and fix screw-ups is the issue. Here, they did well. Again, thanks are in order to state and national Democratic Party leaders.
Please feel free to give shout-outs to your favorite state-based progressive, Democratic blog. We’re all in this together.
Mu . . .
Feb 06 2008
Obama’s Anti-Clinton Spin At Odds with DNC
…Or, how Democrats Eat Their Own.
Talking Points Memo has an article up describing Obama’s latest mailer attacking the Clinton Presidency:
In what may be Obama’s most direct and aggressive criticism of Bill Clinton’s presidency yet, the Obama campaign dropped a new mailer just before Super Tuesday that blasts “the Clintons” for wreaking massive losses on the Democratic party throughout the 1990s.
“8 years of the Clintons, major losses for Democrats across the nation,” reads the mailer, which goes on to list the post-1992 losses suffered by Dems among governors, Senators and members of the House of Representatives. The mailer was forwarded to us by a political operative who told us it was sent to Alaska, though it was probably sent elsewhere, too.
Dec 04 2007
Kucinich: A Kid, A Question and More w/poll
Dec 01 2007
Kucinich: Making the Case for the Democratic Party at the DNC
As always, Dennis Kucinich gave a barnburner of a speech, this time at the DNC meeting yesterday. While standing in solidarity with Hillary due to the hostage situation, Dennis makes the case for the Democratic party to return to it’s roots as a champion of social justice and full employment.
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