Because they are pretty clear on their website about their publicly stated purpose:
From their homepage:
Welcome to the "Re-create 68" website, your virtual activists' Convergence Center for the Denver Democratic National Convention of 2008. This website was created for all the grassroots people who are tired of being sold out by the Democratic Party.
R-68 agrees with the proposition, POTESTAS IN POPULO, "all power comes from the people." What stands between the people and power are the party machines. The parties were devised as a means to represent the people. Today they represent nobody, not even party members, but only party bureaucracy. The people have been left without appropriate institutions for their representation. We intend to create those institutions!
Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained.
http://www.recreate68.org/And from the page you get by following the "read more about what Recreate 68 means":
Sometimes we need to look back to move forward. In 1968 there existed a spirit of change, the Paris Rebellion, Prague, Chicago, Vietnam, etc. People believed, around the world, that they were capable of taking over the institutions that controlled their lives. The smell of revolution was in the air. Over 1 million college students openly identified as revolutionist. People believed that through mass participation in the movement, it was possible to wrest control from the elite power-holders. They were not willing to accept the loss of their human and civil rights.
Recreate 68 is not a throwback group trying to relieve some vision of glory days long gone. We are predominantly a youthful group that has realized that 40 years later, we have only produced apathy in our communities towards making effective and lasting change. We intend to recreate that need for change and mass participation in the events that shape and control our lives. We intend to recreate that revolutionary feeling and pick-up where our predecessors left off. It is time to reclaim the ideals that we have forgotten and leap forward by stepping back and using that voice inside of us that has been telling us something is seriously wrong, a voice that is shouting for change, a voice that has realized we live in a police state and we have stopped moving forward 40 years ago. When we recreate positives and discard negatives from our collective memories of the past and realize the true power that the people possess, we will have the ability to make 2008 a very special year. This is the true meaning of Recreate 68. Don’t let this historic moment pass you by. Join us on this journey and have your energies and voices heard in the streets of Denver, as we demand change during the DNC in 2008!
http://www.recreate68.org/album1_dnc_031.htmThat seems pretty clear. Are you asking for clarification, more nuance, of what they
say their purpose is or, alternatively, are you asking whether they have a hidden agenda -- a purpose that is different or even opposite to what they say it is? Or maybe you are trying to figure out what they think they will actually end up getting, as opposed to the lofty goals that they are espousing -- in other words, are they naive and likely to achieve an end result different than the one they are imagining or are they aware of possible actual outcomes?
Having only recently (a few years ago) been unplugged from The Matrix (thanks mostly to DU), I'm still a bit disoriented and not sure what I'm supposed to do. What's your opinion about protests like this -- are they just the thing we need to do or are they playing into the hands of Agent Smith?