[Fwd: [Peace-discuss] Fw: local tea party]

[E. Wayne Johnson]

The tea party thing started up again 16 December 2007 in Boston with 
group of Ron Paul backers
who reorganized as the "Committees of Safety" in July 2008 and had a 
major meeting
in Boston Fanueil Hall on 14 December 2008. 

The present round of TeaParties got started in Seattle by 
conservative-libertarian blogger LibertyBelle who organized a
President's day protest of the "Stimulus" bill on 16 Feb 2009.  It was 
at this point that Michelle Malkin picked up on
the Seattle Tea Party and she and others started publicizing it.  There 
was another anti-stimulus protest in Mesa AZ a couple of
days later, and then Rick Santelli's rant from Chicago, calling for a 
Chicago Tea Party.  Obama's press secretary Gibbs(?) attacked
Santelli personally which activated the opposition.  The use of Twitter 
and Facebook brought together people from different
ideological backgrounds, libertarian, conservative, paleocon, anarchist, 
etc.

There was a significant turnout for several "teaparties" at different 
locations on 27 Feb 09 coinciding with the CPAC in WDC.

There are presently several different groups organizing nation-wide 
teaparties for 15 April 09.

John W. wrote:
> So who actually got the ball rolling for these "tea parties", and what 
> is their specific goal or purpose?
>
> John Wason
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM, E. Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag 
> <mailto:ewj at pigs.ag>> wrote:
>
>     Outright NeoCons like Michelle Malkin are favouring the Tea
>     Parties which should at the same time cause us to wonder about the
>     sincerity and also be thankful for her conversion to the truth. 
>     Of course I see Michelle as a shill and most of the new-found
>     monetary and financial policy wisdom of political right is simply
>     a Reactionary response to their loss of power more than any real
>     repentance.
>
>     It is my opinion that as we all go to the tea parties,
>     that we remember that we are not about any LEFT-RIGHT paradigms,
>     false or otherwise, but that we are simply about the Truth, and that
>     there really is a common enemy that lies (in more ways than one)
>     outside any left-right/progressive-reactionary paradigms.
>
>     We should remember that it was a bipartisan effort that brought us
>     the bailouts,
>     and Rahm Emanuel, Obama, Pelosi, Bush, McCain and others almost
>     too numerous to count
>     that brought us the bailouts despite our protestations, letters,
>     and phone calls which
>     they both acknowledged and dismissed.
>
>
>
>
>     u**** wrote:
>>     From Bill Gorrell
>>      
>>      
>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>     *From:* laborhour <mailto:laborhour at yahoo.com>
>>     *To:* u*****@********h.net <mailto:unionyes at ameritech.net>
>>     *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2009 1:01 PM
>>     *Subject:* local tea party
>>
>>     *d****,
>>
>>     thom hartmann, great progressive radio talk show host, suggests
>>     that lefties try to coopt these tea parties by bringing our
>>     messages to the participants.  This would not be
>>     counter-demonstrationing or disrupting the "tea parties." 
>>     Instead, we just show up with our signs like "tax the rich,"
>>     "break up the banks," "raise the minimum wage," "stop corporate
>>     welfare," etc. and participate.  The idea is that people
>>     attending may see our points, as many of them may be disaffected
>>     people who don't really know what's going.  Moreover, there
>>     should be media coverage of the event. 
>>
>>     Get this out to your extensive list of contacts.
>>
>>     Solidarity,
>>     bill gorrell
>>
>>     What follows is a partial list of Illinois Tea Parties.  More
>>     parties and info is at taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/illinois/
>>     <http://taxdayteaparty.com/teaparty/illinois/>
>>
>>     City:* Champaign / Urbana
>>     *When:* April 15, 12:00pm - 3:00pm
>>     *Where:* 400 W. University Ave., West Side Park
>>
>>     *City:* Bloomington
>>     *When:* April 15, Noon
>>     *Where:* Old Courthouse
>>
>>     *City:* Effingham
>>     *When:* April 15, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
>>     *Where:* Pavilions at Lake Sara Beach just past Cardinal Golf Course
>>
>>     *City:* Chicago
>>     *When:* April 15, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
>>     *Where:* Kluczynski Federal Building Plaza, 230 S. Dearborn
>>
>>     *City:* Springfield
>>     *When:* April 15, 12:00 pm
>>     *Where: *Illinois State Capitol
>>     <http://www.meetup.com/Springfield-Illinois-9-12-Project/venue/912554/?eventId=10027481&popup=true>,
>>     2nd and Capitol
>>
>


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