Live from the DNC

This is a very exciting, energetic week to be working in downtown Denver with the Democratic National Convention going on. 

I work from 4 p.m. until midnight and have been taking my dinner breaks outside this week.  There's been thousands and THOUSANDS of people milling around; tons of hilarious political signs and single protestors, everyone out there spouting a cause.   

There's the radicals, the anarchists, the anti-war folks,

and even the anti-meat activists.  Anyone with a message who wanted publicity was there, and all of them welcomed we amateur photographers. 

You could even hula-hoop to help bring the troops home. 

There is A HUGE police presence but no reason for them to need to use force.  They were all standing around, looking serious with their masks and SWAT team equipment, but nothing was happening for them to use it.   It was completely CRAZY!  Wild, buzzing energy, thousands of people EVERYWHERE and so much excitement in the air you could taste it.  Everyone was happy and excited and the words "hope" and "change" were actually tangible in the streets and in the energy of the people.

 

My souvenir for the week is this t-shirt, which I could not resist.  I'm going back down there now to try to get a couple more of these.

So now you know where I stand.

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Please forgive my odd arrangement of photos and text in this post.  Typepad has changed in the 2 years since I last used it and I'm going through an adjustment period of trying to figure out how and where to position things.

Comments

[Roz Cawley]

Positioning looks fine to me, Paula - and the sheer ENERGY of that Convention just bursts forth from the photos. Here's to hoping that the energy explodes even louder when you are celebrating the inauguration of President Obama!

[Karyl]

Love the shirt and SO envious that you got to take part in this week's activities! Welcome back to blogging!