You are right,its the Green Party wing of the Dem party. But they will be there at the invitation of their Dem cousins.
RECREATE68. "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..."
Are they actually going to be speaking IN the convention - meaning speaking WITHIN the convention itself, to the delegates?
From what I understand “Recreate 68” is moreso a protest group - not enamored with the DNC at all, really. (Mumia was a big hero to the “purist” anarchist crowd in Denver when I lived there - lefties too, but the anarchists were the most vocal about it).
Anyway, from what I gather it’s more likely these people will be speaking to the protestors OUTSIDE the convention - not the actual delegates themselves, and not WITHIN the convention venue. Please, do correct me if I’m wrong in my assumptions here. (Kind of the same thing as Ron Paul hosting his own private “convention”...).
One thing I don’t understand - IIRC the protesters in ‘68 were communist radicals, right? Wasn’t there whole thing about creating revolution and strife as a means to “take down” our government (using the convenient anti-war cry as a rallying point)?
Seeing as Obama and his friends ARE radical marxists/communist/etc... why are these people still pissed? If anything, I would think they would be supporting Obama and his friends. If they are successful in “recreating ‘68” along with the violence it’s not going to look good for the Democrats. Is it all just a ploy to pretend that the DNC aren’t their brethren in ideology or something? Or, is it just a DIFFERENT group of communists angry because they aren’t in charge, or angry that the changes the Dem party has wrought on the US so far isn’t enough for them (or fast enough)?
I don’t think I’ll ever understand those on the left really...