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| Look Who Is Coming to Washington | |
| 2012-06-15 | |
This year, to save the nation, progressives must get back on offense and drive the agenda. We have to win not only in November ... but also in December. The first step to victory: Join us at the June 18-20 "Take Back the American Dream" conference. At Take Back the American Dream, Van Jones, Paul Krugman, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ai-jen Poo, Sandra Fluke, Gov. Howard Dean, Melissa Harris-Perry, Chris Hayes, Katrina vanden Heuvel and many more will share ideas and forge the strategy to make sure that the 99% is heard. We'll also have leading activists from Rebuild the Dream, MoveOn.org, Occupy, 99% Spring, labor unions, civil rights and women's rights groups who know how to win on the ground. It's About November -- and December In November, we have to win the White House -- and win a big progressive majority in Congress. It won't be easy, but the American majority is coming together. Then in December, watch out. The extreme right is already promising to hold the country hostage once more over raising the debt ceiling in order to force a "grand bargain" -- gut Social Security and Medicare, cripple everything from food stamps to food safety, and accept mass unemployment as a grotesque "new normal." How do we stop this? Drive the debate. Mobilize our grassroots army. Make us impossible to ignore. We will demand a "jobs first" strategy for recovery. We will send the bill to those on Wall Street whose excesses made the mess we're cleaning up. We won't ask working people to sacrifice when they've already swallowed needless cuts. We will insist on sacrifice from the multinationals still gaming the system, and the military still spending almost as much as the rest of the world. We need you to bring the vision. You will shape the plan. And all of us will get it done. Join us at the June 18-20 Take Back the American Dream conference to make victory possible. We are the 99%. If we organize, if we force the debate, we can win not only the election but the argument. Not only November, but December. We can do this. We just need you. | |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #9 Katrina vanden Heuvel Hey, give them some credit: At least they have the comedy portion of their conference ready... |
| Posted by: badanov 2012-06-15 21:22 |
| #8 I read it as an invitation to counterprotest and maybe lean on a few horns. |
| Posted by: lotp 2012-06-15 19:23 |
| #7 Ah. Preaching to the choir. Isn't that kind of a waste of time? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2012-06-15 19:05 |
| #6 ..many more will share ideas and forge the strategy to make sure that the 99% is heard. The only one your leader is listening to is the 1%. Check the list of fund raisers and who he pays attention to. It's the friggin 1%. Bunch of useful idiots. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2012-06-15 18:57 |
| #5 Wonder if they will sing The International before the 1st plenary session. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2012-06-15 16:49 |
| #4 I win! I stopped at corporate-backed Tea Party. |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2012-06-15 16:48 |
| #3 I stopped reading when I got to.... Van Jones. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-06-15 15:39 |
| #2 Yeah good luck with that. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-06-15 15:31 |
| #1 It's about November and December (and May day too). Restore the dream that they can make Communism work without too many deaths this time around. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2012-06-15 14:38 |