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Did You Hear....There Will Now Another Freebie....Join Us At The Counter~Convention For A Free Concert With "Public Enemy!" (their original lineup). Hot Doo~Doo Maynard....

By Wayward Bill - Aug 19th, 2008 at 12:40 am EDT

Hey Now Kidz,

Have you packed up and are you ready?

This is your chance to shine!

Last minute update to last E-News Flash: ReCreate '68

Public Enemy Free Concert
Cindy Sheehan Joins Us in Denver
March and Street Theater in the Freedom Cage
Last Working Meeting
New Convergence Center

1. Public Enemy Free Concert

The Re-create 68 Alliance has announced that in addition to free shows by Dead Prez, Rebel Diaz and Blue Scholars, and 22 other influential bands, the historic and legendary political hip-hop band Public Enemy (The original line-up) will be playing a free concert at Civic Center Park on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 2pm which is expected to draw thousands (no tickets necessary).

2. Cindy Sheehan Joins Us in Denver

The Re-create 68 Alliance also announced that anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente will be joining their historic line-up of speakers who include Ida Audeh, Kathleen Cleaver, Ward Churchill, Mark Cohen, Chairman Fred Hampton Jr., Larry Hales, Larry Holmes, Ron Kovic, Glenn Spagnuolo, Pamela Africa, King Downing, Jenny Esquiveo, Mumia Abu Jamal - Current Political Prisoner (Recorded from Death Row for the DNC), Gloria Estela La Riva, Ricardo Romero, Natsu Saito, Ann Erika White Bird, and others.

3. March and Street Theater in the Freedom Cage

Monday August 25 at 9am, Re-create will be staging a street theater demo at the Freedom Cages. We need your assistants and can explain the details when you arrive. We will be starting at Skyline Park on the 16th Street Mall and head to the Freedom Cages at the Pepsi Center. If you cherish your civil liberties, than you should be apart of this event!

For more information on other speakers and bands, go to www.recreate68.org

4. Last Working Meeting

R-68 will be having their last working meeting this Thursday at 6:30pm at Lincoln Park in front of the State Capitol Building.

5. New Convergence Center

R-68 will be utilizing Civic Center Park as the base of their operations, but we have partnered with Unconventional Action to offer you a convergence center during your stay, the center is open to all and is located at 4301 Brighton Avenue in Denver.

For more information on bands and events please go to www.recreate68.org.

Come Up To Denver Update Too....

Please copy and redistribute this announcement.

For a graphical version with VIDEO and PHOTOS, click here:
http://www.coloradolegaleagles.org/

DNC Police Riot Preview?

Activists Declare Zero Tolerance for Poorly-trained and Rogue Federal
Agents

Contact:
Colorado Legal Eagles
http://www.coloradolegaleagles.org/
info@coloradolegaleagles.org

[Denver, CO] -- Was the July federal attack on Rainbow peace activists a
preview for DNC police riots? Colorado activists are asking Denver
officials to adopt a zero tolerance policy for poorly-trained and rogue
federal law enforcement officers who will be providing security at the
Democratic National Convention (DNC) in downtown Denver from Aug. 24
through Aug. 28. The Colorado Legal Eagles, a local civil rights group, is
asking Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to
begin an investigation into brutal and violent tactics used on July 3 by
federal agents in Wyoming against peace activists in the National Forest,
in the hopes of preventing those same tactics from being used against peace
activists at the DNC. The violent tactics, which injured several adults and
children, include the shooting of pepper bullets into crowds of women and
children, pointing semi-automatic rifles at children, and repeatedly
tasering a man who was handcuffed.
http://www.coloradolegaleagles.org/rainbow/2008/pr1.html

Attendees of the annual Rainbow Gathering meet every year on the July 4
holiday in the national forest to camp, commune with nature, and pray for
peace. This year's Gathering was in southwestern Wyoming near Big Sandy and
was attended by about 6,000 campers. Every year, the U.S. Forest Service
(USFS) increases its attempts to disrupt and cause violence at the Rainbow
Family's peaceful gatherings. This year's Gathering was no exception and
was almost certainly used by the feds as a training exercise for the DNC.

The pathetic examples of crowd control exhibited by these federal agents is
either extremely poor training or done intentionally to provoke the crowd.
One incident occurred on July 3 in the Kid Village area of the Gathering,
where all the children in the campground play. The incident began when
twelve to twenty federal agents stormed into Kid Village, brandishing
handguns, rifles, shotguns, tasers and pepper bullet guns with the intent
to arrest one person for what was later said to be suspicion of marijuana
possession.

Panic and terror ensued as the feds stormed Kid Village, which was crowded
with dozens of campers and children. One woman who tried to ask the agents
what was going on was brutally thrown to the ground and also arrested. No
one knew why the camp had suddenly been invaded by armed federal agents

Several videos posted on the internet show what happened next in detail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5aed3FHiNc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iinwBq1zxL4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1SL58BHBSc

The hundreds of Rainbows in Kid Village try to dispel the tense situation
by chanting "Om" (a type of meditation chant with calming effects.).
Rainbow cries of "We love you" and "We mean you no harm" directed at the
federal agents are heard.

Without any warning whatsoever, several USFS federal agents open fire into
the crowd. Instead of trying to communicate with the crowd and control it,
they started firing their guns at close range and at random, using what was
determined later to be hard plastic pepper bullets. As the feds retreated
with the two people they had arrested, they repeatedly opened fire without
warning into the crowd, injuring both adults and children, and hitting one
man in the face. There are also reports that the feds used rubber bullets
and that one federal agent pointed his gun at several children and a baby.
http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/07/05/news/wyoming/b6f13c1e812604148725747d0005a3c0.txt

The agents had no bullhorn and did not try to communicate with the crowd in
any way, causing questions on whether or not they intentionally tried to
incite the crowd to get angry and violent. Instead, they instantly formed a
defensive posture, with guns pointed outward. The only ones who tried to
control the crowd were several Rainbow peace activists. Shouts of "Stay
back. Stay where you are" are heard from the Rainbows. Several peace
activists who tried to help by standing as buffers between the federal
agents and campers were shot repeatedly with pepper bullets in the back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvhSGb4AFaU

Police say these relatively new non-lethal weapons are similar to paint
balls, however, they are not that innocuous. Photos of injuries caused by
the pepper bullets show just how deadly these weapons are:
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/sites/wym08/leos/photos.html

"In the days when cops only had guns and shooting people would kill them,
they were a lot more careful about using weapons," says Rob Savoye,
Colorado Legal Eagles. "Now that they have less than lethal weaponry, there
is nothing to stop them from shooting at people. In fact, because these
weapons are supposedly 'less than lethal', law enforcement is actually
encouraged to start shooting at people. These weapons are extremely lethal,
and the cops need to understand that."

Savoye continued, "These videos show the feds weren't sufficiently trained
to deal with the stress of dealing with large crowds of people. They got
easily upset in situations where they shouldn't have. I hope the DNC
security force has a lot better training. Like the Rainbows, the DNC
protesters are just people exercising their First Amendment rights and
there is no reason to start shooting at them."

Joseph Vigorito, another member of the Colorado Legal Eagles, says, "It's
clear they went in there to inflict pain and hurt people. There was no one
posing any threat whatsoever. The feds were just looking to incite a
response from the crowd."

This is likely to be a preview of what crowd control will look like at the
DNC. The USFS federal agents presumably received the same training as the
federal agents who will be controlling the crowds at the DNC. The DNC
security is being lead by the Secret Service, with help from the National
Guard and other federal agencies.

At the DNC, federal agents are likely to find themselves in instances where
they must make an arrest in a crowd of people. Will they handle it the same
heavy-handed way they did in Wyoming, storming into the crowd and shooting
at random? Or will they come equipped with bullhorns to communicate with
the crowd and a better tactic to arrest one person in the midst of
thousands?

Denver received a $50 million dollar grant for security during the DNC. If
the training of the federal agents in Wyoming is any indication of how
well-trained the agents will be during the DNC, we may be in store for a
repeat of the "police riots" of the 1968 DNC in Chicago.

We are urging concerned citizens to contact Mayor Hickenlooper and Governor
Ritter and urge them to have zero tolerance for any police "overreaction"
during the DNC:

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper
Phone: 720-865-9000 (Denver 311)
Ask for the Mayor's Office
E-mail: MileHighMayor@ci.denver.co.us
Website: www.denvergov.org/mayor

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter
Phone: (303) 866-2471
Fax: (303) 866-2003
Online feedback form
http://www.colorado.gov/apps/oit/governor/citizen/assistanceUtility/welcome.jsf
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For more information:

http://www.coloradolegaleagles.org/
http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/sites/wym08/leos/

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Provided as a public service by the:
Come Up to Denver Coalition
"No one else can take your place!"
Check out our video of Crosby, Stills and Nash playing "Denver"
http://www.comeuptodenver.org/
Email: info@comeuptodenver.org

We are all outlaws in the eyes of Amerika,

Wayward Amerika aka Wayward Bill

http://heynowunitedstates.spaces.live.com/

720.982.7310

ps: Did I mention that the Democratic National Convention is also taking place. Sounds kinda boring eh! This is your Woodstock and your chance to define your future......

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Democratic National Convention Counter-Convention Legal Updates.....Come Up To Denver!!!

By Wayward Bill - Aug 17th, 2008 at 3:41 am EDT

Hey Now Yip & Yippettes,
The clock is ticking.
Winding down to the Greatest Show on Earth!

The Democratic National Convention & The Festival of Democracy!

are almost here. One more week!

Will you be here now? Phun starts next Sunday! DNC Counter-Convention Legal Updates (8/16/08)

*** LEGAL OBSERVING ***
There are several Legal Observing sessions coming up. Please check our
calendar for a schedule and locations.
http://www.comeuptodenver.org/calendar/

*** ACLU FORMS ***
The ACLU is encouraging anyone attending a DNC protest or demonstration to
download an online form to bring with to the event. The forms will protect
your rights to see an attorney and make telephone calls if you are
arrested. Please follow the instructions in the packet:
http://www.aclu-co.org/dnc/DNC%20KYR%20Page/info.attorney.visit.pdf

The ACLU has also all the information you need to protect your First
Amendment rights during the DNC:
http://www.aclu-co.org/dnc/knowyourrights.html

*** DNC PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT STAFF TRAINING ***

To be a volunteer member of the office staff you must attend one of the
below trainings.
People's Law Project Legal Office Staff Training
Tues., Aug. 19, 2008

3:00pm AND 7:00pm

PLP Office, 1280 Sherman Street, Suite 206, Denver
RSVP: To Shannon at Shannon@dnc-plp.org
http://www.dnc-plp.org/

*** SEND EVENT INFO TO ACLU ***
The ACLU of Colorado and the People's Law Project of the National Lawyers
Guild (Brian Vicente, Executive Director of the PLP) are asking groups with
pre-planned events during the DNC, such as parades, marches,
demonstrations, rallies, vigils, street theatre, etc., to provide us with
information on their events.

We realize that some events may be spontaneous, not publicly advertised, or
that you might be reluctant or otherwise unable to provide some info prior
to the DNC. To the extent that you are able to share this information with
us in advance, however, it will greatly assist our efforts to help protect
your rights by allowing us to anticipate how we may need to dispatch PLP
Legal Observers and/or ACLU staff to events, and to formulate plans and
allocate resources for the potential need for legal assistance.

If you can provide any of the following, please send an email regarding
your event(s), including the following:

1) date
2) time
3) location
4) cell phone # and name for event contact
5) brief description of the activity and expected number of participants
to Taylor Pendergrass at <tpendergrass@aclu-co.org>, or leave the same info
on my voicemail at 303-777-5482 x104.

Any information you provide about events will be used only for the purpose
of planning and coordinating legal observers and legal assistance, and will
not be shared outside of the ACLU of Colorado and the People's Law Project.

Likewise, if you are able to provide a cell number and name for an event
contact, it would not be shared without anyone outside of the ACLU and the
PLP, and would only be used in the event that ACLU or PLP staff needed to
get in touch with an event contact to confirm reports of problems or
arrests at an event.

Please pass the word to any other groups that may be planning events during
the DNC.

Thanks,

Taylor Pendergrass
Staff Attorney
ACLU of Colorado
400 Corona St.
Denver, CO 80218
Ph: 303-777-5482 x104
Fax: 303-777-1773

*** UPDATES ***
Check our website for frequent updates and for more information on these
events. As the DNC draws nearer, more and more information is being put on the website.

http://www.comeuptodenver.org/
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Provided as a public service by the:
Come Up to Denver Coalition
"No one else can take your place!"
Check out our video of Crosby, Stills and Nash playing "Denver"
http://www.comeuptodenver.org/
Email: info@comeuptodenver.org
So kidz,There is the legal skinny.I am already a member of the Colorado American Liberties Union

& I spoke with Brian Vincente yesterday about my participation with The DNC People's Law Project so hopefully if any of you are going to participate in either of these worthy organizations defending you and the U.S. Constitution you just might get to meet me.
Don't be late.....
Peace, Love, Rock & Roll! The streets of Denver belong to the People and not just the delegates of the capitalist two party system......
Wayward Amerika ps; Read more at http://heynowunitedstates.spaces.love.com/ or call me 720.982.7310!

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All In All You're Just Another Brick In The Wall For Not Attending The Democratic National Convention..Hey, Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone!

By Wayward Bill - Aug 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm EDT

Don't Be Another Brick In The Wall.... Are you between the ages of 18 and 30?

Are you currently wondering what's it all about? Do you need to connect with people your same age?

Your "Woodstock" is here!
It's called the "Democratic National Convention."August 24 ~ August 28 Come to the "Festival of Democracy!" Age Suitability: None Specified

Open to the public. The Festival of Democracy will include free music and performing arts, free food, and free institution building and political training.The Festival of Democracy will be a five day event running in conjunction with the DNC Convention. The purpose will be to share some fun and to work towards the development of programs and networks that will address our community problems ourselves, without relying on the two party capitalist system. We will also be offering a 24 hour free medical clinic for all community members to receive free health care.

Carpool, take the bus or AMTRAK, hitchike!
Just get here.

We are not offering you 3 days of peace and music.
We are offering you 4 days of

Peace, Phun

Protests, & Possibilities For A Better Amerika! So my challenge to you the Youth of Amerika!
My generation shut down the New State Thruway!

We had 500,000! Can you shut down I70 from the East amd West of Denver?

I bet there are over a million of you looking for the one event that will be define "your generation!" and "your future!" Well can't you hear the call, Come Up To Denver,No one else can take your place......
See ya on our streets, don't be late.....

Oh yeah, there will be music too!Announced today, Rage Against The Machine for free via ticket lottery that requires you be here in Denver to sign up for. Check out press release:http://heynowunitedstates.spaces.live.com/

ps; In memory of the Move members who all took the last name "Africa" during their death struggle, our surname should be "Amerika" during the Democratic National Convention!

Wayward Amerika aka Wayward Bill

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