There's the same manic yet mellow energy, the same emphasis on affinity, the same affection for agitprop. Those giant puppets hovering over the demonstrators in Seattle and Washington D.C. bore a striking resemblance to the Bread and Puppet Theater creations that once regaled antiwar marches. But something about these activists doesn't fit the '60s model. They're polite, even when charging down a street. And they don't spell America with three ks.
People understand now that it's about an alliance of elites around the world.
You say the people running this society suck. These days, Danaher works at Global Exchange, whose mission is to make Americans care about the rest of the world. Though he's a founder of this group, Danaher wants you to know he has no power to command it. Nor can his colleagues order up the mass mobilizations being planned around both the Republican and Democratic conventions. But organizers are crisscrossing the country in a traveling activist caravan known as the Democracy Road Show.