A reader passed on this tip:

This group, Recreate 68, is a group of Peace Thugs who are prepared for ‘direct action” to shut down Democrat convention because, among other things, the Dems haven’t stopped the war.

I should applaud them for disrupting the DNC convention.

From the site http://recreate68.org/:

Welcome to the “Re-create 68″ website, your virtual activists’ Convergence Center for the Denver Democratic National Convention of 2008. This website was created for all the grassroots people who are tired of being sold out by the Democratic Party.

R-68 agrees with the proposition, POTESTAS IN POPULO, “all power comes from the people.” What stands between the people and power are the party machines. The parties were devised as a means to represent the people. Today they represent nobody, not even party members, but only party bureaucracy. The people have been left without appropriate institutions for their representation. We intend to create those institutions!

Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained.

Bring the kids!

Now, I note they posted this.  They did hedge their bets a bit, and note #7:

Statement of Non-Violence & Principles We are committed to resisting and overturning a system of violence inflicted daily on people of this country and the world, and against the natural environment, by political and corporate power, in the pursuit of profit. We are resolved that our group will not instigate violence against human beings as a means to end this system of violence and injustice. However, we recognize the right of the people to self-defense and community defense.

•  10 Mutual Assurances Between Groups And Organizations Planning DNC Related Activities:
• To publicly support rights of free speech, the right to organize, and the right to dissent for all.
• To maintain solidarity with and respect the guidelines of all permitted activities, recognizing that there are many individuals who seek a safe and peaceful protest.
• To support and participate in efforts to assure civil liberties for everyone in Denver, including the right to organize civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action without that organizing being criminalized or disrupted.
• To speak out against any pre-emptive arrests, raids on activists spaces, or attacks on independent journalists and other media.
• To be conscious of and speak out against police targeting and differential treatment of people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, accent, or appearance.
• Not to turn people over to the police, or share information with the police about other groups.
• Not to publicly criticize the tactics used by other parts of our movement or cooperate with media efforts to be divisive or portray good protester/bad protester.

Sure.  You wouldn’t want to go on the record for your values of peace, would you…

• To publicly condemn police repression and brutality. 

…Unless it is the police of course…

• To be conscious that if violence or property destruction does occur, we will do what we can to help prevent it from being blown out of proportion and dominating the media coverage.

Not to oppose it, or condemn it, but to make sue the media doesn’t exaggerate it…

• To remember that, when all is said and done, our greatest victory will be an activist community with a renewed sense of strength and unity.

Face the reality that this group would not shed one tear for any property or personal damage, as long as it is not them

Thugs.

Oh, and note the complete lack of socialist imagery…

During the Convention, there will be five major protests, one each day. Each protest will focus on a symptom of the disease of an Imperialist, Capitalist, Racist system as seen in our communities. Some of the proposed themes are as follows:

Sunday - End All Occupations at Home and Abroad
Monday - Human Rights/Free All Political Prisoners
Tuesday - No Borders
Wednesday - No Warming
Thursday - No Racism/Imperialism

As actions develop, we will post more information!

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