At noon this Saturday, the local branch of the “End the Fed” group will have a demonstration against the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Minneapolis; supporters are trying to have demos at every Fed facility nationwide. Here, participants will walk around the local branch of America’s public/private central banking entity, and advocate for shutting it [...]
At noon this Saturday, the local branch of the “End the Fed” group will have a demonstration against the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Minneapolis; supporters are trying to have demos at every Fed facility nationwide. Here, participants will walk around the local branch of America’s public/private central banking entity, and advocate for shutting it [...]
In this era of uber-control over signs at political gatherings, the most striking feature at last night’s Minnesota Tax Day Tea Party rally at the Capitol was the sea of homemade signs.
Sure, a Google search of many of the phrases on tea party signs shows thatmany of them have been used in our political discourse [...]
One major dynamic of political action these days is the constant battle of perception over whether a given demonstration or political organization is really an authentic "grassroots" wildfire rising up from the people. As one local tea party supporter put it to PIM, this is really a "liberty movement," not a partisan movement, but are [...]
by Sarah Janecek
Published: April 15, 2009
Tags: tea parties
Earlier today, PIM staffer Dan Feidt postedabout the liberaltheory that tonight’s Tax Day Tea Party at the Capitol is astroturf as opposed to real grassroots.I ask you, readers, to check out that map on the left (click to enlarge).That’s the map that Tea Party organizers sent to media.
That’s about as grassroots as you can [...]
One major dynamic of political action these days is the constant battle of perception over whether a given demonstration or political organization is really an authentic "grassroots" wildfire rising up from the people. As one local tea party supporter put it to PIM, this is really a "liberty movement," not a partisan movement, but are [...]
There are plenty of tax-related “tea party” demonstrations coming up around the state as April 15 approaches–the idea being to mount public protests of out-of-control government spending and, in particular, federal stimulus spending. Get an official flyer here (PDF).
St. Paul will participate in a nationwide burst of more than 300 Tax Day Tea Parties, rallies [...]
