GOP convention attracting array of demonstrators

[struggle4progress]

By AMY FORLITI

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting the price of oil ...

Protesters and police expect the opening day of the four-day convention, Sept. 1-4, to be the biggest — with a huge anti-war march from the state Capitol to the Xcel Center and back. Groups representing labor, immigrants, gays and lesbians, solidarity with Palestine, and many other causes have signed on.

"The Bush agenda has really angered all different groups," said Meredith Aby, a member of the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War. "These groups have said, 'We can't survive four more years of this'" ...

The women and men of the anti-war group CODEPINK plan to join the march in St. Paul, complete with pink "police" on in-line skates and the pink-slip girls, who have been known to deliver their "pink slips" to politicians whom they believe aren't doing enough to end the war in Iraq ...

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[TheCowsCameHome]

1. I hope their convention is a complete mess.

With all eyes focused on those bastards in Sept., what a fitting way to show just how much they're reviled by hard working Americans.

[roody]

2. Look for some fun in Denver also.

http://dncdisruption08.org/

The two-party dicktatorship has brought us two invasions and occupations, spying on us, torture, environmental degradation, etc., etc., etc.

[CitizenPatriot]

3. FREEWAY BLOGGERS

anyone in the area that can do freeway blogging???? they are right we have to identify mccain as 4 more years of bush. that is the only message we need to get out there. those who love bush are a lost cause anyway.