It seems that the group “Recreate 68” is causing some headaches for the antiwar groups planning to protest the Democratic convention. From the Denver Post:

Democrat convention protest groups split A close ally with the local war protest group Re-create 68, which is organizing for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, is severing its ties, the group told R-68 today. Tent State University, a national group represented locally by Adam Jung, says it is having trouble organizing support and bands to perform because of the violent imagery associated with R-68′s name, and with recent heated rhetoric from R-68 organizer Glenn Spagnuolo, who has been the face of the local effort to date. From the outset, Spagnuolo’s group has attracted criticism because of its name, which suggests for many the violence outside the convention hall in Chicago in 1968. “We don’t feel that Re-create-68 is working well with the anti-war left,” Jung said. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the national group CodePink, seconded concerns over R-68′s message and image, saying she wanted to portray the anti-war message as positively as possible. But Benjamin didn’t rule out working with R-68, as long as the group’s message conformed with CodePink’s.

Now bear in mind that CodePink is known as a bunch of shrill harpies who somehow think that the key to ending the war is dressing like they’ve been drinking from a Pepto-Bismal firehose and then annoying the ever-loving shinola out of anyone who so much as thinks of going near a federal building. If “Recreate 68″ is to crazy for them — well, then they just might succeed in recreating 68 in Denver this summer after all.