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Images of the protest
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 08/29/2004 - 14:40Pictures from the Demonstration:
Kucinich's Candidates
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 08/29/2004 - 10:16(Originally posted in Greater Democracy)
Back in May, I asked where are Clark's Commandos? I noted that Dean had his Dean Dozen, would Kucinich do something similar? Today, I received an email pointing to Kucinich’s list of progressive Democratic candidates. Fourty-five people are on the list, including four who are also on Dean’s list.
Progressive Majority also has its list of candidates as do many local groups.
I have been trying to keep track of as many of these as possible at a site I started months ago. Initially, I was focusing on Dean inspired candidates. I’ve expanded the list to be good progressive candidates, and even moderates in the cases where they seem downright progressive when compared to their competition.
It is a good thing to see progressives organizing, supporting more candidates, and getting more people out running for office.
Round one goes to the protestors
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 08/28/2004 - 21:44(This was originally published at Greater Democracy
With protests there are various measures of the success of the protest. Did violence erupt? Did the police keep things under control? Who is perceived as the good guys and who is perceived as the bad guys? Based on unscientific methods, I need to award round one of the Republican Convention protests to the protestors. Last night, five thousand cyclists rode through the streets of New York. They were greeted by cheers by many along the streets. About an hour and a half into the ride, the street started cordoning off streets and arresting cyclists for disorderly conduct and confiscating their bicycles.
Watching the Convention
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/27/2004 - 20:37(Originally posted to Greater Democracy
This afternoon, I received an email from Brad Johnson about the Critical Mass bicycle ride this evening. He wrote,
The Critical Mass bicycle ride tonight will be the first real demonstration of NYPD tactics during the RNC. Critical Mass was going to have a post-ride party, but the cops and the Coast Guard intimidated the owners of the space into cancelling it.
Furthermore, the police hand-delivered a lovely letter threatening the riders with mass arrests -- for a ride that has gone on every month for the last 10 years without incident.
If you to be involved or monitor the proceedings, you should head over to the Time's Up space at 49 East Houston Street (btw Mott and Mulberry) during the day or go to Union Square at 7 pm.
The letter: http://www.times-up.org/images/nypd-to-ta-re-cm.jpg
Posts on this: http://the-cunctator.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/27/121244/624
http://nyc.indymedia.org/feature/display/103268/index.php
Senatorial Blogs
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 08/27/2004 - 14:59(Originally posted at Greater Democracy)
The other day, I participated in a conference call put together by Mathew Gross for bloggers interested in the Erskine Bowles campaign. I was very interested in this because it was the first conference call I know of by a senatorial campaign aimed at the blogging community. It follows nicely on the blogging of political conventions.
There was a bit of talk about polls and strategy, but the conference call just didn’t get me excited. Bowles has a blog, which is pretty good. There are nearly sixties entries in the blog. Nearly half of them have no comments and only two had more then ten comments, one had 15 and one had 24. It is worth noting that the two entries that had the most comments were primarily about issues. The most commented on entry was about a new ad Bowles is running on health care. The second most commented entry was about an editorial discussion Bowles plan for Homeland Security.
Quite a few of the entries were written by ‘Staff Writer’. Posts which don’t reveal the author always bother me. In some cases, it did reveal the writer in the post. On the upside, six of the posts were identified as being written by Bowles.
