Anarchists, socialists and pacifists are among the thousands of protesters planning to take to city streets, The Denver Post reported Sunday.

"There will be a lot of people at this convention who are progressive and who are angry at the Democrats," said Virginia Trabulsi, who has worked for years with the anti-war group United for Peace and Justice.

Other protesters plan to pull Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers up from Mississippi to draw attention to the continuing post-Hurricane Katrina struggles.

Then there is the Backbone Campaign, which will haul 70-foot-tall political puppets called The Chain Gang: prison-suited images of U.S. President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

A group called The People Call for Change plans to hold a series of events in churches and community centers to offer a hopeful vision of the future.

"The thing that is driving all of us is that we want to reclaim our country, to restore it and make it be a government and a country by and for the people," said Ron Forthofer, who founded the group.