Coffee Party Movement – A Huge Success
The Coffee Party Movement, born just six weeks back on the world’s most famous social network ‘Facebook’ has been termed a “huge success” after Saturday’s kickoff. Loads of talks were held at coast-to-coast coffee shops as members joined in to make the movement a great success, discussing the main issues. The Coffee Party Movement is an answer to the Tea Party Movement.
The group became an instant hit on the social network, registering some 140,000 Facebook fans. The groups meetups was one way of showing the strength as people met at different coffee houses to celebrate the success. A statement released by the party read:
“today’s coffee houses have been a huge success — both for Coffee Party USA and for democracy. All across the U.S., Americans from all political sides sat down for civil conversation and, of course, coffee.”
Stacey Hopkins, a coordinator told that the turnout far exceeded her expectations with around 60 people participating for the meeting at Java Monkey in Decatur, Georgia. Kids, college students, high school students as well as retired people from all set of ages with no exception to religion or color were there.
Somewhere around 35 people gathered in North Carolina at the Filo Pastries and Coffee with the meeting coordinated by Rachael Jernigan, who is a house wife. Another set of some 30 people came out from Cup A Joe in North Carolina.
The Party’s founder Annabel Park, who has also worked as a volunteer for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and Democractic Sen. Jim Webb’s campaign in 2006, is a no party man and wants to bring all under the stripes. Park spoke at the meeting, saying:
“We feel like the health care debate showed not only that we are a very divided country, but there’s something really wrong with our political process. We kind of got to see the innards of the political process and realize there’s something very broken. I think that’s what we’re responding to.”
Park says that the Party’s first real national action would be held on March 27 when members will gather to discuss ways to engage members of Congress during the Easter recess.
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So, the so-called “grassroots” Coffee Party Movement, isn’t so “grassroots” after all!!
The coffee party is partnered with democracyinaction, a 501(c)(3) organization, (meaning contributions to the latter are tax-deductible) whose motto is “wiring the progressive movement” for “social justice”.
Democracyinaction gets its funding from the Open Society Institute (funded by GEORGE SOROS!). Democracyinaction is also linked to wiredforchange whose clients include the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the DEMOCRATIC Congressional Campaign Committee.
http://salsalabs.com/democracyinaction
And, here is Annabel, herself, urging Coffee Partiers to go to this website ………
http://swampbubbles.com/person/annabel-park
The bottom line is that Annabel Park is a seasoned political activist who got frustrated with the fact that the Tea Parties were getting their message heard, and the liberals who support Obama were not.
So, she co-opted the Tea Party’s format and told everyone that the intention is to promote “civility in discourse”. The fact is, her intention was to amass enough people to get attention in order to promote Obama and his agenda, and get him reelected. She didn’t care about civility when she was trashing the Tea Parties, though, and she originally said that her intention was to render the Tea Party obsolete.
If people want the same things Annabel Park wants, that’s great – but, everyone who doesn’t want to promote and support Obama and his reelection should know that they’re being used.
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Hey, akw, I see you are fond of labels and putting people into convenient boxes. So what if Annabel has a history of political involvement? She is only one member of this movement and does not control the conversation in any way. I invite you to come out on the 27th and sit down at the table over coffee OR tea — let’s talk. Present your point of view and try really hard to listen to what other people have to say. That’s what this is all about.
@ akw – So, with all that said, the Coffee Party may be affiliated with such groups, but is there any confirmation or conclusive evidence that they have indeed received funding from such sources or is this merely insinuation here?
Let’s look at the Tea Party Express for a moment; a group that is under the banner of the Tea Party is heavily promoted by the FOX News Channel, but was actually started by started by a California-based GOP political consulting firm, Russo Marsh & Rogers, who coincidentally started the political action committee, Our Country Deserves Better (OCDB). Some of OCDB’s principals are also connected to Move America Forward, a conservative group that ran PR campaigns and bus tours in support of the Iraq War during the Bush administration.
Tempest in the Tea Party (Mother Jones)
Then you also have the matter of Mark Meckler in California…
Top Tea Party Leader Was Paid By GOP Biz Group’s Campaign
Being that the original Tea Party supporters, which came out of the Ron Paul presidential election camp, have a decidedly anti-war stance, I find it ironic and hypocritical that the Tea Party would be allowed them to continue to be falsely misrepresented as the Tea Party Express continues the false assumption that they are indeed a grassroots organization and many of the candidates they endorse are often the one who are responsible for allowing the corporations and lobbyists to pervert the legislative and judicial branches of government or will continue to progress the corporate agendas in a variety of issues facing America.
There are many in the Coffee and Tea Parties on all levels who have done activist work for political campaigns or candidates at some point in their lives. There’s nothing wrong with having that experience on either side and the pretzel logic behind this “six degrees of separation” is a good example of how the American public is continually distracted from the real issues at hand. Ms. Park and I have been portrayed as liberal activists and Obama political operatives and as for the latter, I can personally say that that simply isn’t true and would challenge anyone to present information that indicates otherwise. Yes, most of our members and I personally, do support the efforts of President Obama and the Democratic Congress as the obstruction we see by the minority party makes it virtually impossible to propose – never mind pass – any legislation that would be of benefit to the American people and it appears their intent is merely to stall until they regain power instead of addressing and working with the government to address the serious, systematic failures of our economy and foreign, social and domestic policies which have all come together in their respective failures to bring us to this unprecedented time in our history. We don’t have time to spend four years stalling; the Coffee Party is looking to bring solutions and if the government can’t seem to find a way to do so, we shall show them an alternative as to how it might be achieved.
As to being labeled as an activist, that is a moniker that I claim with pride, as I refuse to be intimidated or bullied into silence by anyone or any entity. The Coffee Party feels that the government is a necessary component of the democratic process and it’s not the mechanism itself that is flawed, but those who have been allowed through voter apathy and frustration with such deceptive tactics as seen by the Tea Party Express and other organizations that merely exist to further divide the country and obstruct government from working as it was designed to, are.
There have been those who have made the claim about the Tea Party representing the views of “real America”, but what we are seeing with the growth of the Coffee Party is that there are others who felt that their particular part of their America wasn’t being fully or accurately represented. What is being promoted and portrayed as the Tea Party just isn’t appealing to all and perhaps with good reason as those who wish to regain power and continue the destructive path our country was headed while they were in power, are using the Tea Party as the vehicle to do so again.
Bottom line, it’s a choice of beverage and you can choose to drink either or nothing at all.
I’m more concerned about future water issues (behold the new black gold), mal-adjusted cultures within and continuation of urban art in America (minus the played out porn influences). What planet are ‘they’ from anyhow those of racist and fear-mongering ways? Let’s just say it’s OK to blame, usually, religion and gadget fatigue these days. Payce!
A huge success? What a laugh I got from that one!
Really Mika,
why do you think its so funny? Illuminate us with your accumen…
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