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Coffee Party USA takes on the Tea Party Ed Stoddard (Front Row Washington) Submitted at 3/2/2010 5:01:37 PM
America’s conservative Tea Party movement may be on the boil, but the left is brewing up its own version in The Coffee Party USA. The movement has launched itself on the social networking site Facebook where it has acquired more than 50,000 fans over the past month. You can see some news reports and commentary about it here and here and here. Under the battle cry “The Coffee Party USA: Wake Up and Stand Up” it is asking people to host a Coffee Party event on their March 13 “kickoff.” “What’s your favorite spot for a cup of coffee or Sunday brunch? Enter it here along with what time on March 13th you plan to meet, and you are a Coffee Party
coordinator! We are volunteers, working to restore our capacity as Americans to engage a civil and respectful conversation about public policy. As with any disagreement, the first step is sitting down to talk,” it says. Like the Tea Party — a conservative movement opposed to big government and President Barack Obama’s agenda which takes its name from an 18th century American revolt against British colonial rule — the Coffee Party claims to be “100 percent grassroots.” “No lobbyists here. No pundits. And no hyper-partisan strategists calling the shots in this movement. We are a spontaneous and collective expression of our desire to forge a culture of civic engagement that is solution-oriented, not blame-oriented,” it says. And like the Tea Partiers it evokes America’s 18th century founders, with a feminist twist:
doubt find some red meat here: what could be more elitist and out of touch than the coffeehouse, latte and Starbucks crowd? The Coffee Party also has some catching up to do. The Tea Party movement is diffuse but it has morphed from a protest movement marked last year by “Our Founding Fathers and a n g r y r a l l i e s a n d h e a t e d Mothers gave us an enduring t o w n h a l l m e e t i n g s i n t o a gift — Democracy — and we political machine that plans to must use it to meet the make an impact in state challenges that we face as a primaries this year with an eye to the November congressional nation.” “We are an alternative to the elections and ultimately the Tea Party,” says Coffee Party 2 0 1 2 W h i t e H o u s e r a c e . movement founder Annabel Essentially, it is working to get Park — identified as a out the vote for (mostly “concerned citizen” — in her Republican) candidates who Y o u T u b e p i t c h , c o f f e e i n subscribe to its view of limited hand, which you can see here: government and low taxes and http://www.youtube.com/watch? deficits. v = l O _ 5 H v n F E Do you think the Coffee Party v0&feature=player_embedded can mount a credible alternative Conservative critics will no from the liberal left?
EU gives obscure browsers a big chance Stephen Shankland (Webware.com)
Seven lesser-known browsers are getting a chance at relevance
as 100 million Europeans see alternatives to Internet Explorer.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
South African President Jacob Zuma visits Britain with his latest wife (Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news) Submitted at 3/3/2010 6:55:43 AM
South African President Jacob Zuma is a polygamist who has been married five times and has 20 children. He has arrived in the UK with his fifth wife, Thobeka Madiba Zuma Picture: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction.