Dem convention: CodePink protests media party
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 at 11:24 am in 2008 presidential election, Political conventions.
We ran into San Francisco anti-war icon Medea Benjamin of the Bay Area outside the big media party at the Democratic Convention last night.
While the 15,000 journalists partied inside an amusement park, Medea and her friends handed out a list of their week’s activities. Benjamin is cycling around Denver on a pink and green bicycle — pink for peace, green for environmentalism — and says she and her activist colleagues intend to make their presence known at as many convention-related events as possible.
Here’s a short video of our interview with Benjamin. My colleague Mary Anne Ostrom at the San Jose Mercury News is conducting the interview while I manned the Flip video.
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August 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Medea is truly a Useful Idiot, to use Lenin’s phrase. She makes Pelosi and co. seem like middle-of-the-roadies, thus making it easier for the Dems to pose as the party of the sensible middle classes.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
[...] We made some friends. We (well, Medea Benajmin) were interviewed. Check it here. [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
I own the Christian Broadcasting System and she is not working for or with us.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Interesting!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:08 am
[...] quote Little Suzie Benjamin who admits she stole hers from the Christian Broadcasting System; The Contra Costa Times published an article and a videotaped interview during the Democrats’ convention showing [...]