Understanding Protest Group Unconventional Denver
August 12th, 2008 Jim Banks Posted in Audio, Demonstrations, News |
Jim Banks interviews members from the protest group Unconventional Denver, a key group in the upcoming DNC. They discuss recent demonstrations and protests organized by the group, specifically a request to Denver City Council to reinvest the $50 million budgeted for DNC security into community projects in exchange for the complete elimination of planned protests. They also discuss the intentions, ideas, goals and philosophy of this anarchist and anti-authoritarian based organization. Branching from the national group, Unconventional Action, Unconventional Denver sees grassroots democracy, communal control, civil disobedience, direct action and a disassembly of capitalism as the key to a better future.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Would Unconventional Denver have ANY authority (being anti-authoritarian) to speak for all protest groups to surrender their civil rights and allow the “complete elimination of planned protest” in exchange for reinvesting the $50 million budgeted (and largely already spent or committed) for DNC security into community projects?
Further, does UnconDen or the other protest groups have ANY authority or capability to prevent disruptive, provocateur, CoIntel-type infiltration of their legal civil disobedience in order to “justify”, as in past conventions, hundreds of arrests and detentions, such as in the barb-wired cages of “Gitmo on the Platte”?
Will the black-masked unknowables again come out of the shadows, wreak their violent havoc, and again use their Justin military boots to disappear through police lines, leaving behind guileless demonstrators to suffer the consequences?
Best of Luck,
Lou
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