PHILADELPHIA – Over five hundred activists have pledged to risk arrest by engaging in nonviolent mass civil disobedience at the Democratic National Convention here in Philadelphia between Monday and Thursday, according to Kai Newkirk, mission director for the Democracy Spring activist group.

During an in-person interview outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia, Newkirk revealed that, besides street protests, activists from his group will attempt to infiltrate and disrupt this week’s DNC events from the inside.

Democracy Spring claims it is a movement attempting to “end the corruption of big money in politics and guarantee the right to vote for all Americans.”

The organization is part of a coalition of activist groups calling themselves the DNC Action Committee. Those organizations, which in addition to Democracy Spring include Black Lives Matter, Reclaim Philadelphia, and Poor People’s Economic Rights Campaign, are planning marches and protests throughout the duration of the DNC.

There are reports that Philadelphia law enforcement officials are expecting between 35,000 to 50,000 protesters per day during the DNC.