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August 28th, 2008 Barry Gilbert
ABC News’ Asa Eslocker was investigating the role of lobbyists and top donors at the DNC. He was arrested and charged with trespassing, failure to follow a lawful order, and interference with a police officer while he attempted to interview Democratic senators and donors coming out of a reception at the Brown Palace Hotel. The incident was caught on video by his crew.
August 27th, 2008 KGNU Staff
New York Community Media Alliance and Feet in Two Worlds hosted a panel discussion on the impact of ethnic voters, which coincided with the Democratic National Convention.
This panel discussion was hosted by John Rudolph, Executive Producer of Feet in Two Worlds. The panel included Jehangir Khattack, a U.S.-Pakistani reporter with the Defense Journal Dawn; Raymond Dean Jones, Political Columnist, Denver Urban Spectrum; Lotus Chau, Chief Reporter, Sing Tao Daily; and Pilar Marrero, Senior Political Writer and Columnist, La Opinion.
August 27th, 2008 Tim Correll
The Big Tent offers bloggers and DNC observers a lifeline link to the Internet. It also hosts a big stage giving a variety of speakers a forum. KGNU’s Tim Correll hung out at the tent and quickly got to know how to work the technology. He captured two commentaries: Van Johnson from Green For All and Robert Kennedy, Jr. on the climate problem and solutions.
August 27th, 2008 Maeve Conran
Author and founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Jeff Cohen says that Obama’s failure to react to the negative McCain ads, has damaged his chances of being elected. KGNU’s Maeve Conran caught up with Jeff Cohen at Progressive Central at the Central Presbyterian Church in Denver, during the DNC.
August 19th, 2008 Maeve Conran
Performance artist Sharon Hayes will gather 100 people at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to read a text in unison addressing political desire and romantic love as part of Creative Time’s summer-long, national public art initiative Democracy in America: The National Campaign. Her piece is called “Revolutionary Love: I Am Your Worst Fear”. She spoke with KGNU’s Norman Strizek.
August 19th, 2008 Maeve Conran
Evi Klett, with Progressive Democrats of America Colorado, one of the organizers of Progressive Central , joins Tim Carpenter, National Director of Progressive Democrats of America and Steven Wangh, Progressive Democrats of America Colorado, to talk about Progressive Central, a week long series of of panel discussions taking place in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.
August 18th, 2008 Maeve Conran
Advocates are concerned about human trafficking in the sex industry during the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver. Praxus is an organization that addresses human trafficking in the state of Colorado. Its director, Seth Donovan, spoke with KGNU’s Johanna Gallers.
August 9th, 2008 Ira B Chemus
July 30th, 2008 KGNU Staff
KGNU’s Joel Edelstein and Maeve Conran discuss the station’s upcoming coverage of the 2008 election, the DNC and the launch of the new blog.
July 28th, 2008 Maeve Conran
Nearly 1400 gatherings took place around the country so members of the public could contribute to the Democratic Platform writing process. Maeve Conran went to one meeting in Longmont.
Details about Listening to America.
July 21st, 2008 Joel Edelstein
The NYPD arrested eighteen hundred people at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, some of whom were held for up to two days. Denver’s DNC People’s Law Project is training citizens on First Amendment rights and lawyers on how to observe police-citizen interactions. On Monday July 21st, Joel Edelstein, spoke with Executive Director of the Peoples Law Project, Brian Vicente.
July 19th, 2008 Sadiq Alam
. Why Protest the DNC?
Denver has heard plenty of discussion in recent weeks about protests planned for the Democratic National Convention, but most of the talk has been logistical and legal - the hows, the whens and the wheres. The whys have not had as much of an airing.
- My Fox Colorado
. Inside the DNCC: A Convention of Firsts
Here in Denver this August, a Convention for the people is possible. An African American candidate is possible. And it’s possible this just might be my best event to date.
- Huffington Posts
. Denver says it won’t broom the homeless
City promises to ‘engage them’ in DNC activities
- Rocky Mountain News
. Media to get first official look at DNCC site
Media members from across the country got an advance look at arrangements for the Democratic National Convention at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
- Examiner
July 16th, 2008 CBentley
If patience is a virtue and virtue is a grace, delegates and media at August’s DNC in the Pepsi Centre are going to need both. In spades.
Finally, the Great and the Good (well, they’re neither but their positions in authority mean we have to be a little bit deferential, or else?) have revealed the road closures imposed from on high for Denver for the week beginning August 25th.
Most of Speer Boulevard and Auraria Parkway will be off limits for a large part of the week. But, neither Mr. Ford, Mr. Gates nor Mr. Dyson have yet invented either teleporting or the flying car so both patience, time, loads of very expensive gas, and cantankerous determination are going to be needed on a daily basis to get anywhere near to the Convention proceedings.
