2024 Playbook?

"DNC 2024 in Chicago Has Parallels to the 1968 DNC, With a War and Nation in Turmoil"

Will DNC protest their own convention and need 1,000 of NG?

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/2024-dnc-chicago-1968-dnc

In April 1968, Columbia University students opposed to the Vietnam War took over Hamilton Hall, protesting the school’s ties to the United States military and its fraught relationship with the surrounding neighborhood of Harlem. In April 2024, pro-Palestinian Columbia students took over that same academic building. That’s not the only similarity between our current moment and that one. As was the case in 1968, we are in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war — this time, Israel’s US-backed actions in Gaza — with young Americans predominantly leading the anti-war charge. We have a divisive US election, much like in 1968, and there’s even a Kennedy running. In a particularly striking coincidence, this year’s Democratic National Convention (DNC) is set to take place this month in Chicago, the same setting for the 1968 DNC.

The 1968 DNC, which occurred after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, is infamous for the televised anti-war protests that were met with vicious police brutality. From August 26-29 of that year, as the Democrats cemented Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president Hubert Humphrey as their nominee, about 10,000 protesters gathered outside the convention to protest Johnson’s Vietnam War policies. Then Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, in anticipation of the protests, mobilized law enforcement ahead of the convention, calling in 12,000 members of the Chicago police, the National Guard, and federal troops.

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