Coverage of the National Democratic Party Convention from Denver, Colorado.

Host Cecil Prescod interviews Kevin Alexander Gray, a writer and activist living in South Carolina. He managed the 1988 presidential campaign of the Rev. Jesse Jackson in the state. His forthcoming books are “Waiting for Lightning to Strike: The Fundamentals of Black Politics” and “The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama.”

Democracy Now! expands to daily two-hour broadcast during the Democratic National Conventions. Hear the second hour of the broadcast as Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew travel to Denver and St. Paul to cover the convention from the streets to the suites to the convention floor.

Democracy Now! expands to daily two-hour broadcasts during the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Hear the second hour of the broadcast as Amy Goodman and the Democracy Now! crew travel to Denver and St. Paul to cover the 2008 conventions from the streets to the suites to the convention floor.

Hour 2 of special Democracy Now coverage of the National Democratic Party Convention from Denver, Colorado.

Pacifica Coverage of the 2008 Democratic National Convention
The broadcasts will include live speeches and analysis, produced reporter packages and convention-floor interviews, and coverage of protest activities surrounding the conventions. Analysis will center on campaign and convention financing, its influence on party and candidate platforms, ideological struggles within the major parties, the historical trajectory of the protest movements outside, and civil rights issues concerning their treatment by local authorities. The broadcasts may include listener-call-ins.

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Melodie Silverwolf hosts. Her guest is Will Potter, a freelance writer, whose blog is Greenisthenewred.com.

Activist Sunsara Taylor, of The Revolution newspaper & The World Can't Wait orginization returns to Drinking From Puddles tonight for her third interview on the program. On tap is the decline of anti-war & other protesting in the wake of Obama's nomination, as well as other connected issues regarding the war in Iraq, the potential war in Iran and America's adgenda on the world stage.