TPM: Progressives Gathered In DC Hail The Occupy Wall Street Protesters

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Progressives Gathered In DC Hail The Occupy Wall Street Protesters

EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO
OCTOBER 3, 2011, 11:19 AM

The opening session of the Take Back The American Dream Conference here in Washington — a progressive confab led by former Obama administration official and Glenn Beck enemy Number One Van Jones — sought to find common ground with the protest movement on Wall Street, which some are already looking towards as the start of a progressive tea party.

Attendees here opened the conference an hour early for an update on the growing protests in New York, and talk of the occupation on Wall Street sprinkled into the opening speeches.

“This is a struggle about what kind of America we will be,” said Robert Borosage, an activist with the Institute for America’s Future who helped open the conference. Like tea partiers do (and progressive activists have done for years) Borosage assailed both parties, claiming each had become too close to corporate power.

But Borosage said the Wall Street protests suggest that people are actually starting to heed the warnings against big money and big power as the nation’s focus turns once again to national elections.

“We need a politics that’s disruptive,” he said. “The kids in Occupy Wall street gave us a taste of that.”

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/progressives-gathered-in-dc-welcome-occupywallst.php?ref=fpblg

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1. Watch it LIVE here! Robert Reich is speaking now.

http://www.alternet.org/immigration/152599/watch_live%3A_van_jones_and_the_take_back_the_american_dream_conference

Van Jones' Rebuild the Dream link: http://rebuildthedream.com/

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2. Reich telling the truth here......

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3. Reich is great! He's on fire!