A month after President Barack Obama won reelection, top brass from three dozen of the most powerful groups in liberal politics met at the headquarters of the National Education Association (NEA), a few blocks north of the White House. Brought together by the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Communication Workers of America (CWA), and the NAACP, the meeting was invite-only and off-the-record. Despite all the Democratic wins in November, a sense of outrage filled the room as labor officials, environmentalists, civil rights activists, immigration reformers, and a panoply of other progressive leaders discussed the challenges facing the left and what to do to beat back the deep-pocketed conservative movement. "It was so exciting," says Michael Brune, the Sierra Club's executive director. "We weren't just wringing our hands about the Koch brothers. We were saying, 'I'll put in this amount of dollars and this many organizers.'"
The liberal activists have dubbed this effort the Democracy Initiative. Greenpeace's Phil Radford notes that for decades conservatives have aimed to shrink local, state, and federal governments by reforming the rules so they could install like-minded politicians, bureaucrats, and judges. Radford calls it "a 40-plus-year strategy by the Scaifes, Exxons, Coors, and Kochs of the world…to take over the country." [Andy Kroll, Revealed: The Massive New Liberal Plan to Remake American Politics, Mother Jones]
'Liberal' is coming in from the cold. http://t.co/oiEKYm6IdT
— The Fix (@TheFix) January 10, 2014
Wonkbook: Obama wants to make inequality the defining issue of 2014 http://t.co/mFyXXp96iF
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) January 10, 2014
Lawsuit Filed in Christie Bridge Scandal | http://t.co/3G4zO2oPE2
— TIMEPolitics (@TIMEPolitics) January 10, 2014
No, really: It’s over for Christie in 2016 http://t.co/qKxjGakitY via @Salon
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) January 10, 2014
Not if you count baseball bats in his trunk MT @BuhByeGOP: Will people believe that Chris Christie is not a bully? pic.twitter.com/hu86jyB85o”
— Kent Harrington (@Harringtonkent) January 10, 2014
President Obama declares state of emergency in WV due to #coal chemical water contamination for 300k people: http://t.co/EWTbTFHwim
— Sierra Club (@sierraclub) January 10, 2014
Doing a tele-town hall with @MaryKayHenry @Phil_Radford @NCLR @CWAUnion @NAACP & others to talk about restoring the voting rights act #VRA
— Michael Brune (@bruneski) January 9, 2014
Chris Christie tops pre-Bridgegate national poll of potential presidential contenders http://t.co/pxUmga7qAa
— interested party (@larry_kurtz) January 10, 2014
@larry_kurtz I'll revisit PRTC in the next couple months. Looks like it's getting short walked.
— Tom Lutey (@TomLutey) January 9, 2014
After Obama beats AIPAC on Iran, he can impose an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. #second term freedom
— MJ Rosenberg (@MJayRosenberg) January 10, 2014
"The real story is that people have forgotten what cold weather is like," — @ClimateOfGavin http://t.co/q693lgTsPT pic.twitter.com/l3QoEsll3J
— NASA Earth (@NASA_EO) January 10, 2014
I hope you're right, LK. I pray to the Creator you are!
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LK: if you want to compose a guest post just let me know.
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Why thank you. I appreciate that. And maybe I will here in the future.
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Not a denier but think cooling will be more of a concern. climate has been changing since beginning. We must pay more attention to our surface pollution(water,soil) as this is beginning of life(ALL).
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