First Coffee Party held in St. Augustine
Historic City News has learned that leaders of the fledgling Coffee Party movement hosted events at 350 coffeehouses in 44 states across the country on Saturday, including here in St. Augustine.
The first Coffee Party in St. Augustine was held at Gaufres and Goods at 9 Aviles Street, downtown.
Locals in attendance abandoned traditional party lines and spoke up about special concerns, sharing their stories with civility and respect.
Angela Masson, Lee Henry, Peter Glass, Pamela Bicknell, Sami Bicknell, and Kenyon Bicknell were among those in attendance.
Annabel Park, the movement’s founder, is angry at what she perceived as media overexposure of the conservative Tea Party movement. At the meeting Saturday, the mood was “coffee is stronger than tea”.
Coffee Party USA is made up of people acting independently of political parties, of corporations, and of political lobbying networks.
“We want a society in which democracy is treated as sacrosanct and ordinary citizens participate out of a sense of civic duty, civic pride, and a desire to contribute to society,” Park said.
Nationally, turnout at the events has been mixed.
Organizers of the St. Augustine Coffee Party say that everyone is welcome to join in issue identification and consensus building.
If you missed Saturday’s first meeting, you will have another chance to participate.
The next meeting is scheduled for March 27th, at 1:00 P.M. to be held at the Barnes and Noble Cafe’ located at 1930 US 1 South.
Photo credit: © 2010 Historic City News contributed photograph by Grace Dzierlatka
Category: Government
Subscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
The so-called “grassroots” Coffee Party Movement, isn’t so “grassroots”.
The coffee party is partnered with democracyinaction, a 501(c)(3) organization, (meaning contributions to the latter are tax-deductible) whose motto is “wiring the progressive movement” for “social justice”.
Democracyinaction gets its funding from the Open Society Institute (funded by GEORGE SOROS!). Democracyinaction is also linked to wiredforchange whose clients include the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the DEMOCRATIC Congressional Campaign Committee.
http://salsalabs.com/democracyinaction
And, here is Annabel, herself, urging Coffee Partiers to go to this website ………
http://swampbubbles.com/person/annabel-park
The bottom line is that Annabel Park is a seasoned political activist who got frustrated with the fact that the Tea Parties were getting their message heard, and the liberals who support Obama were not.
So, she co-opted the Tea Party’s format and told everyone that the intention is to promote “civility in discourse”. The fact is, her intention was to amass enough people to get attention in order to promote Obama and his agenda, and get him reelected. She didn’t care about civility when she was trashing the Tea Parties, though, and she originally said that her intention was to render the Tea Party obsolete.
If people want the same things Annabel Park wants, that’s great – but, everyone who doesn’t want to promote and support Obama and his reelection should know that they’re being used.