<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Are you working on a central Illinois branch, David?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Mar 14, 2014, at 11:38 AM, David Johnson <<a href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><font size="2" face="Arial"><div class="post-headline"><h1>Out of Occupy, a New Populist Political Party Forms</h1></div><div class="post-byline"><div id="single_post_category_images" class="bfa_widget_area"><div id="linkabletitlehtmlandphpwidget-3" class="widget widget_text"><div class="textwidget"><img class="attachment-580x387 wp-post-image" alt="a new democracy" src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/a-new-democracy.jpg" width="571" height="387"></div></div></div><div class="cat-date-line"><span class="cat-date-line4">By Dennis Trainor Jr,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.popularresistance.org/category/resistance-report/">www.PopularResistance.org</a><br>March 13th, 2014</span><br></div><div id="google_translate_element"><div dir="ltr" class="skiptranslate goog-te-gadget">Carl Gibson, co-founder of U.S. Uncut, is joining with other Occupy Wall Street organizers to launch a new populist political party. While more details (including the name of the party and the identities of other key organizers) will be available when the group launches on March 20, the party will be explicitly anti-capitalist.</div></div></div><div class="post-bodycopy clearfix"><div class="pf-content"><p>Says Gibson: “A new party that actively opposes capitalism and unites people around the basic ideas of meeting human needs would be widely respected and immediately acknowledged. This new party could stand apart from the two corporate-owned parties by refusing to take campaign donations from corporations, banks and developers, standing up for the rights of immigrants and indigenous people, calling for sustainable energy and development, making education for all a top priority, and believing in universal access to healthcare as a human right. While it would take time, focusing on building power first at the local and county level is the surest way to make lasting change.”</p><p>In this interview with Resistance Report host Dennis Trainor, Jr., Gibson acknowledged that the Green Party is already working along a parallel path, but feels his (soon to be launched) party will do a better job of engaging young people and focusing on local politics as a way to build power.</p></div></div></font></div><span><a-new-democracy.jpg></span>_______________________________________________<br>OccupyCU mailing list<br><a href="mailto:OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net">OccupyCU@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/occupycu</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>