This was an excellent article. Just the facts. Anyone can read this article and know what is going on. Why did someone have to come along and rain on our parade?
If the participants at this America's Future Conference want to know our Party's position on anything they can check out our web sites.
Jim is absolutely correct in one aspect; we shouldn't be distributing leaflets or Party materials at this meeting. We are not going to do things the way the farmers out in Minnesota operate in the cow pastures.
But, Jim is wrong about distributing leaflets to workers. We are not going to waste money on leaflets. Workers can read our web sites if they want to know our positions on anything.
There are always going to be a few ultra-leftists demanding we do what we say we are going to do. First they try to provoke us to hand out leaflets at this function. If we were to bend to this kind of pressure next thing you know they would be insisting we set up a book display. I haven't even written my first book yet; what would we have to sell?
We aren't going to go to this conference and start talking about Israel, either. Less than 20 people got killed when these boats loaded with supplies for Gaza was stopped. Their skippers should have done like the U.S. Admirals do when these big warships pull into port. Dump everything overboard.
Let's not get carried away with our own convention resolutions.
We aren't going back to being a 20th Century Party passing out leaflets everyplace we go. Forward into the future; read our web pages.
Has anyone heard the election results from the Convention committee? Did I get re-elected as National Chair or did Scottie or Jarvis beat me out?
Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA.
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•i think it would be a mistake for the cpusa to distribute literature at this meeting we should be distributing literature to the workers in my opinion that's what a working class party does. no these folks didn't kill single payer health care i think that was the tea party group and their friends (rush limbaugh glenn beck and that ilk ) and single payer ain't dead yet u give up to easy the struggle continues even after single payer in solidarity jim
Posted by , 06/04/2010 8:29pm (5 hours ago)
•Will the CPUSA have a table at the conference and distribute its program to all participants? This isn't the same organization that helped kill single-payer universal health care; is it?
Posted by A friend, 06/04/2010 7:43pm (5 hours ago)
Progressive meet to chart course for 2010
by: Tony Pecinovsky
June 4 2010
WASHINGTON - Thousands of progressive leaders, trade unionists and activists will meet at the Omni Shoreham hotel here June 7-9 for the America's Future NOW! Conference.
They will discuss, debate and plan strategies to challenge the corporate lobbyist agenda, to put the struggle for jobs front and center, and to create a reform majority that can defeat obstructionists Republicans while projecting a progressive program in the coming mid-term elections.
This is the seventh America's Future NOW! conference. (In the Bush years it was called the Take Back America conference.) It is organized by the Campaign for America's Future, which bills itself as "a strategy center for the progressive movement." Its goals are to "forge the enduring progressive majority needed to realize the America of shared prosperity and equal opportunity."
By spearheading a progressive agenda that addresses kitchen-table issues, while educating progressives, union and community organizers, and other activists, the conference hopes to "incubate national campaigns on critical issues that will define America for generations to come."
Founded as a response to the Bush-era attacks on working families, unions, and the environment, the conference provides a unified convergence point for different progressive political trends, giving an opportunity to debate, discuss, network and plan.
As indicated on the CAF website, "Americans have had it with tired conservative politics that divide us, an economy that squeezes us, a foreign policy that weakens us and a government that serves few of us."
The right-wing Republicans' "list of failure is simply exhausting," the organization says, pointing to "a disastrous Iraq occupation, a destabilized Middle East and Asia, the persistent threat of terrorism, a menacing climate crisis, an insecure and dwindling energy supply, unprecedented trade deficits, unchecked global corporate power, our broken health care system, a weakened pension system and an increasingly inaccessible higher education system."
With right-wing Republicans and tea party supporters mounting campaigns for the mid-term elections this fall, the America's Future NOW! conference is more important than ever.
Additionally, as we enter a possible era of reform, a bigger, broader, more inclusive movement is needed. The America's Future conference is a good place to start building the relationships, connections and strategies that will help us make progressive change.
Conference speakers include: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Rep. Donna Edwards of Maryland, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, SEIU President Emeritus Andy Stern, former Gov. Howard Dean, and United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard, just to name a few.
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•i think it would b a mistake for the cpusa to distribute literature at this meeting we should b distributing lierature to the workers in my opinion that's what a working class party does. no these folks didn't kill single payer health care i think that was the tea party group and their friends (rush limbaugh glenn beck and that ilk ) and single payer ain't dead yet u give up to easy the struggle continues even after single payer in solidarity jim
Posted by , 06/04/2010 8:29pm (5 hours ago)
•Will the CPUSA have a table at the conference and distribute its program to all participants? This isn't the same organization that helped kill single-payer universal health care; is it?
Posted by A friend, 06/04/2010 7:43pm (5 hours ago)
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