There were some violent protests today, including one in which bricks were thrown and the windows of a Macy*s department story were smashed. But the pre-planned lefty protest, which took place directly outside of the Xcel Center, was peaceful, and featured lots of signs for Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, as well as quite a few Obama shirts.
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—Dana Goldstein
Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project. More by Dana Goldstein
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