Ed. note: Seven Days writer Kevin J. Kelley will be blogging this week from the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Kevin just sent these photos, with the following captions:

The orange-suited demonstrators represented Guantanamo prisoners at a march along Denver’s pedestrian mall this afternoon. (Monday). Chant: “No torture, no war, that’s what we’re fighting for!”

The three seated figures are, left to right, Congresswoman Barbara Lee from Oakland, Calif; health care for all activist Richard Kim and Congressman John Conyers from Detroit. They were speaking this aft at a forum organized by Progressive Democrats of America and The Nation magazine as part of a weeklong series of events at a Denver church meant to highlight issues of concern to left-wing Democrats.

This article appears in Aug 20-26, 2008.

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