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VP Debate Live-Blog
(Electric Elliot's live-blog after the fold. DON'T FORGET TO REFRESH FOR UPDATES.)
...more.Live-Blogging the VP Debate
This Thursday, for the first time in the history of the universe, The Melon's Electric Elliot will be live-blogging the Vice-Presidential debate. Who's winning? Who's losing? Can one really win a lose a debate with this magnitude of pandering? One thing is for sure, with Electric Elliot at the helm (yes, I'm speaking in 3rd person) everyone will be burned.
Join me at 6pm PST and for an hour and a half of pure verbal murder on these Veep hopefuls. Who came up with Veep anyway? Isn't VP abbreviated enough? F*cking media idiots!
The Right to Assemble: ACLU on RNC "Federalization"
Civil libertarian Chuck Samuelson, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, talks about the history and causes of Republican and Democrat convention "federalization". The UPTAKE is an independent media laboratory, and one of the places where myself and others had used for creating our own content.
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...more.Final DNC Dispatch #4
This is our final dispatch at the Democratic National Convention. The resistance will be taking its message next week to the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Feels Like an Anti-War Victory
The mood at the DNC protest has turned around completely from what it felt like the entire week.
At 11:00 AM this morning I received a text message from Olympia activists that the Convergence Center (where Recreate '68 and Unconventional Denver plan their actions) was being raided by riot police. Three people were arrested, one from the Tacoma Pitchpipe Infoshop, and the police confiscated painting supplies and banner material. It was a very low blow to the resistance here in Denver. Riot police surrounded the building, but failed to eventually come up with a warrant that would allow them to raid the building and make mass arrests.
...more.Second Day at the DNC dispatch #2
Second day at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.
News From the Front Lines of Denver
This is our first episode of coverage while at the Democratic National Convention. It takes a lot of work to get a show like this lined up. Now we are completely tired out, I am totally sun-burned. Until tomorrow!
B. Obama's Fateful Triangle
Like the majority of his colleagues in the Democratic Party, Barack Obama has done very little to change the face of American politics. He has voted for war spending and appropriations, and appeased the pro-Israel lobby. He helped build the erroneous case against Iran, saying nothing about Israel's plentiful arsenal of nuclear warheads and instead proclaimed that “the US will always side with Israel if Israel is threatened with destruction.” In short, Obama stands in solidarity with Israel against the “terrorists” in the territories illegally occupied by Israel.
"I want you to know that today I'll be speaking from my heart, and as a true friend of Israel," Obama announced to a crowd of pro-Israel lobbyists after he sealed up his party's nomination. "[W]hen I visit with AIPAC, I am among friends, Good friends. Friends who share my strong commitment to make sure that the bond between the United States and Israel is unbreakable today, tomorrow, and forever." One of Obama's major platform points, curiously, is that he will reduce the influence of lobbyists in the White House.
All That Disruption
In 1968 the protesters said they came to the Democratic National Convention to cause disruption. Those disruptions in the streets have had more of an impact on American culture than did the other issues involved at the convention itself, such as the seating of racially-mixed delegates, credential and platform battles, and even the Democratic Party's nomination of Hubert Humphrey as their candidate for president - who lost to Nixon's landslide victory.
Today disruption in the streets is happening everywhere. Most of these disruptions are in fact not even covered by the mainstream media. If you don't believe this, read a blog like "Bombs and Shields", which keeps track of anarchistic disruptions and similar events happening almost each day worldwide. Or read a similar blog "Social Rupture" which has been keeping more up to date with such activities. Direct action against the state is happening all around us, yet we are hardly aware of its pervasiveness. We have become immune to disruption.
Discuss.