Recreate 68 fracturing nutroots?
May 6th, 2008 by everettSeems the Clinton / Obama down-to-the-wire primary fight isn’t the only place the Left is fracturing this campaign season. In the Denver Post, there’s a story of one group that’s running away from Recreate 68, the radical group promising chaos at the Democratic convention, and another that’s uncomfortable.
A close ally with the local war protest group Re-create 68, which is organizing for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is severing its ties, the group told R-68 today.
Tent State University, a national group represented locally by Adam Jung, says it is having trouble organizing support and bands to perform because of the violent imagery associated with R-68’s name, and with recent heated rhetoric from R-68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo, who has been the face of the local effort to date.
From the outset, Spagnuolo’s group has attracted criticism because of its name, which suggests for many the violence outside the convention hall in Chicago in 1968.
“We don’t feel that Re-create-68 is working well with the anti-war left,” Jung said.
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the national group CodePink, seconded concerns over R-68’s message and image, saying she wanted to portray the anti-war message as positively as possible. But Benjamin didn’t rule out working with R-68, as long as the group’s message conformed with CodePink’s.
Hah! Put on the popcorn, grab a beer and get ready for a political season better than any reality show.
