Events in Denver - Recreate 68

Training Day, Lincoln Park (In front of the State Capitol Building) 12pm - 6pm
We will be offering two duplicate sessions of trainings that will provide you with skills and knowledge that may assist you during your stay. This is not to be confused with our trainings and teach-ins on how to better your community that will be taking place throughout the week at the Festival of Democracy.

Session 1:
                                    Training Area 1                                    Training Area 2
12pm - 1pm                Healthy & Safety for Activists            Non-Technical Blockades
                                   (Colorado Street Medics)                       (Re-create 68 Alliance)
1pm - 2pm                  Logistics Training                                Self-Defense for Protesters
                                   (Unconventional Denver)                        (Gumm Mixed Martial Arts)
2pm - 3pm                  Know Your Rights                               Drumming for Demos
                                   (People’s Law Project)                           (The Back Bone Campaign)

Session 2:
                                    Training Area 1                                    Training Area 2
3pm - 4pm                  Healthy & Safety for Activists            Non-Technical Blockades
                                   (Colorado Street Medics)                        (Re-create 68 Alliance)
4pm - 5pm                  Logistics Training                                 Self-Defense for Protesters
                                   (Unconventional Denver)                         (Gumm Mixed Martial Arts)
5pm - 6pm                  Know Your Rights                                Drumming for Demos
                                   (People’s Law Project)                           (The Back Bone Campaign)

End the War / End the Occupations March and Rally, West Steps of the State Capitol building, 9am - 6pm
This will be 2008’s largest national and Denver’s largest ever anti-war and illegal occupations march and rally. There will be speakers, music and a march to the Pepsi Center.

Speakers (Alphabetical order):
Ida Audeh - Palestinian Refugee
Kathleen Cleaver - Black Panthers
Ward Churchill - Long-time Author, Activist, and Scholar
Mark Cohen - Re-create 68 Alliance
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. - Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Larry Hales - World Worker’s Party and Re-create 68 Alliance
Larry Holmes - Troops Out Now Coalition
Ron Kovic - anti-war activist, veteran and author of Born On The Fourth of July
Cynthia Mckinney - Green Party United States Presidential Candidate
Glenn Spagnuolo - Re-create 68 Alliance
Special Guest Speaker to be announced at Monday’s Press Conference

Bands:
David Rovic - State Capitol Steps, kicking of the rally
M1 and Stic.man of Dead Prez - Free Concert at the State Capitol Steps, prior to the march
Blue Scholars - Free Concert at State Capitol, after the march
Jim Page - State Capitol Steps, during the rally

The Freedom March and Rally, Civic Center to the Federal Courthouse, 10am
The event will be focusing on political prisoners and human rights violations. It will include speakers, music and a march to the Federal Courthouse.

Speakers (Alphabetical order):
Pamela Africa - MOVE Organization
Rosa Clemente - United States Vice Presidential Candidate for the Green Party
Kathleen Cleaver - The Panther Nine from San Francisco
King Downing - National Coordinator of the ACLU’s Campaign Against Racial Profiling
Jenny Esquiveo - Spokesperson for Eric McDavid (Political Prisoner)
Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. - Prisoners of Conscience Committee
Mumia Abu Jamal - Current Political Prisoner (Recorded from Death Row)
Cha Cha Jimenez - Founder of the Young Lords (Puerto Rican Resistance Prisoners)
Gloria Estela La Riva - Spokesperson for the Cuban Five
Ricardo Romero - National Coordinator for the Mexican Liberation Organization
Natsu Saito - Author, Activist, and Human Rights Scholar on Guantanamo Inmates
Ann Erika White Bird - American Indian Movement Spokes Person - Leonard Peltier Defense and Sacred Sites

Bands:
** Special Guest Band To Be Announced at Monday’s Press Conference**

Shake Your Money Maker, The Denver Mint Building, 5pm
It’s time to redistribute the wealth. The event will use a little magic and energy to draw attention to the issue of poverty that plagues our communities. The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. Poverty and capitalism are the biggest killers in this country. Between security and corporate pay-offs, the DNC will cost over $100 million dollars. We think the people deserve that money. Join us as we encircle the Denver Mint (where U.S. currency is produced) and use our collective power to raise the mint building in the air and shake the money out of it for the people. Don’t forget a sack to put all of your loot in.

Bring noisemakers, energy, spells, magic, costumes, anything that gives you power. We’ll need it!

Festival of Democracy at Civic Center Park (free concerts, food, medical assistance, teach-ins, workshops and tabling) will begin Monday morning at 7am, entertainment start time - 3pm

Bands:
Savage Family - From Illegally Occupied U.S.
Dinigunim - San Diego
DJ Cavem - Five Points, CO
Moetavation - Five Points, CO
DJ Asar Heru - Brooklyn
Karma - Barbados
Whiskey Blanket - Boulder
Midstate Music - Chicago
Dario Rosa - Boulder
Special Guest Speakers and Poets Between Acts

Procession to the Future March, Civic Center Park to the Pepsi Center, 11am
R-68 and the Back Bone Campaign (http://www.backbonecampaign.org/) will be co-hosting a march to the Pepsi Center that will utilize over 100 large theatrical props to display our vision for the future. Feel free to bring an artistic expression to the march that represents your vision for the future.

Festival of Democracy at Civic Center Park (free concerts, food, medical assistance, teach-ins, workshops and tabling) 7am, entertainment start time - 3pm

Bands:
Debajo Del Agua - Denver
DKO-Electric Horns - Denver
Melanie Susuras Band - Denver
Rebel Diaz - Bronx
The Night Kitchen - Boulder
From The Depths - North Carolina
Black Sheep Brigade - Boulder
Special Guest Speakers and Poets Between Acts

Poets for Monday and Tuesday:
Isis, Ladyspeech, Bianca, Lucifury, Allende, Bobby LeFebre (members from nationally ranked Slam Nuba Team 2008)

Additional Speakers Throughout the Week:
Deb Sweet - World Can’t Wait
Mason Tyert - SAFER
Timothy Tipton - Rocky Mountain Caregiver’s Cooperative
Ben Manski - Bring the Guard Home
CHOIR - ‘Acapella Choir with a conscience’ from Oakland/San Francisco
Ramona Africa - MOVE Organization

Liberation Soirée at Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St. - 8pm Start Time
A benefit concert and party for the Festival of Democracy. A “No More Politics as Usual” Party. $7.00 cover charge.

Bands at the Soirée:
Rhythm Vision - Denver
Rebel Diaz - Bronx
DeeJay SD & K DJ Above

IVAW March
R-68 has agreed to support this march to the Pepsi Center, organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War.

Rage Against The Machine Free Concert at the Denver Coliseum, 11am
Don’t miss seeing this free concert by one of the best political bands in the country. The event is not an R-68 event, but is sponsored by IVAW and Tent State.

Immigration March and Rally, 11am >
R-68 will be providing support and marching in solidarity with the undocumented community members of Colorado for a more human immigration policy.

Solidarity March to Invesco Field, Skyline Park, 2pm
There will be a permitted march in solidarity that will express the ideals of true change that goes beyond a campaign slogan.

***Please look for events on our website and others from groups like Food Not Bombs, Unconventional Action, World Can’t Wait and Others.***

We are committed to resisting and overturning the system of violence inflicted daily on the 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.

Ten Mutual Assurances Between Groups And Organizations Planning DNC Related Activities:

1. To publicly support rights of free speech, the right to organize, and the right to dissent for all.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To speak out against any preemptive arrests, raids on activists spaces, or attacks on independent journalists and other media.

5. To be conscious of and speak out against police targeting and differential treatment of people based on race, gender, sexual orientation, accent, or appearance.

6. Not to turn people over to the police, or share information with the police about other groups.

7. 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.

8. To publicly condemn police repression and brutality.

9. 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.

10. 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.