Just got back from Colorado protest!

[bush_is_wacko]

The Denver Post was there, but no other MSM! Great speakers.

[karlrschneider]

1. How many peeps?

:D
:toast:

[bush_is_wacko]

3. Small turnout

I'd say around 100, but lots of folks driving by honking their horns. Severel people came, stayed for a while, and then left again. There were a few police cars around. Lots of us looking around to make sure they were going to let us stay! I think a few people may have left because of them. The message...Get the message out there that our elections were a scam, your neighbors don't know. One speaker spoke about Switzerlands very successfull paper ballots and non-partisan counting of election results. Another spoke about Bosnia's paper ballots (This guy was a WWII vet.) It was a mixed crowd. Hippies, Gen Xer's, Gen Yer's, some w/ small children. Wish there had been more people, but we have had several instances of police taking down license plate #'s and putting people on watch lists here in Colorado, so a little paranoia is to be expected here. I did learn that colorado women were the FIRST women in the nation to vote. something I never realized or had forgotten.

[Slit Skirt]

5. much more than 100....

I passed out flyers...I had 100 and didn't have enough...people were spread out but it was closer to 200 I think....and I thought it was great with good speakers

[bush_is_wacko]

6. I'd take slit skirts count to be more accurate...

I'm just not very good at estimating crowd size!

[otohara]

2. I'm Waiting For Friend to Call w/ Report

more details please - how many people? Speakers names?

[bush_is_wacko]

4. Don't want to step on any toes...

I don't know if the speakers want me posting names, there is another Colorado poster here that might know the answer to that better than me. Sorry if that bothers you, but I think caution is the better part of valor, if you know what I mean?

[otohara]

7. Any Local Politicians?

Doesn't bother me, but this was a public event. If the speakers didn't want their names out there, then they should not have spoken in public

[bush_is_wacko]

8. Oh heck!

The speaker list was PUBLISHED in the Denver Voice. Here it is! I hope this doesn't get me in trouble w/ the moderators.

"Jeff Campbell

MC Jeff Campbell, founder and director of the Colorado Hip-Hop Coalition

Gwendolyn Thomas

Civil Rights
A member of the Colorado Advisory Committee to the US Commission on Civil Rights, Gwendolyn Thomas, PhD, received the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.

Rebecca Hunt

Women's Rights
Visiting professor of History and Women's studies at Metro State College and President of the Colorado Coalition for Women's History, Rebecca Hunt PhD, is a historical consultant for the PBS American Experience: One Woman, One Vote, the national suffrage campaigns.

Alison "Sunny" Maynard

It Does Happen Here


Attorney for election matters and former assistant State of Colorado Attorney General, Sunny Maynard has represented citizens who lost elections because of operatives working for real estate developers. She was the Green Party's candidate for Colorado Attorney General in 2002 and has been representing citizens in election matters and water law for the past 13 years.

Ken Seaman

It's Just Not That Hard!
International human rights activist who worked as an election observer in Bosnia. Ken Seaman is a non-violence/direct action trainer in the War Resisters League, and Founder of Colorado Environmental Seminars.

Alan Gilbert

The Vote is Tainted
Democratic theorist and author of Democratic Individuality and “Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?” Alan Gilbert, PhD, is a John Evans Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies of the University of Denver.

Joice Fairchild

We Are Americans
Denver Branch President of the National League of American Pen Women, award-winning poet, novelist and producer of the audio play, “Imagine Peace,” Joice Fairchild is the mother of a soldier who served in Iraq.

Kali Autumn Lynn

Money = Truth and the Media Blackout
President of The Denver Voice, and author of the expose' on corporate controlled media, "Why Media News Group and The Denver Post have a Media Blackout on Election Fraud Issues," Kali Autumn Lynn is an activist for disenfranchised communities."

[bush_is_wacko]

9. Our cowardly local politicians...

only sent a letter. They read it, but honestly I thought it sounded rather cowardly.

[otohara]

10. I Haven't Heard Much From The Democratic Candidate Either

that guy John Kerry, nor his partner John Edwards.

I faintly remember hearing this over and over again "and we're gonna make sure that "every vote is counted and every vote counts"

Yeah right! Thanks to the Green Party candidate...

[Vidar]

11. Thank you.