Annabel Park: From Netroots Nation To Coffee Parties?
Update: Sorry, had missed this with more from Left Coast Rebel.
Since then, she has been associated with a large number of leftist groups including, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, Asian Americans for Obama, and she started the 121 Coalition.
Following up on this Instapundit post regarding Annabel Park and the silly Coffee Party deal, she began after leaving the New York Times at some point. It seems she led the grassroots effort for Webb, as well.
Annabel Park already has a group.
Annabel's video blog (youtube.com/9500liberty) documenting the immigration battle in northern Virginia is considered a breakthrough in new media activism. She is currently finishing a feature-length documentary version of the story. Annabel also produced youtube.com/UnitedForObama featuring the viral music video "Si Se Puede Cambiar"and created the grassroots campaign, Real Virginians for Webb, in support of Senator Jim Webb. In 2007, she coordinated the historic grassroots campaign for H.Res.121, the "comfort women" resolution, addressing the trafficking of girls into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during WWII. She studied political theory at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.
Panelists will discuss and share analyses on the role of race both following President Obama's inauguration, and its impact on progressive thinking and communication.
The Netroots Nation: What, are they bored over there?
Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Through our annual convention and a series of regional salons held throughout the year, we strengthen our community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere.
“In 2007, she coordinated the historic grassroots campaign for H.Res.121, the “comfort women” resolution, addressing the trafficking of girls into sexual slavery by the Japanese Army during WWII.”
WTF does the US Congress have to do with the behavior of Imperial Japan 60+ years ago?
WTF does the US Congress have to do with the behavior of Imperial Japan 60+ years ago?
Don’t you know, if that dastardly FDR hadn’t tricked peace-loving Imperial Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, none of this would have happened. From the Rape of Nanking to Hiroshima, all the fault of Uncle Sam and his jingoistic, racist ways.
In fact, I expect Barack the Boy King to scrape and bow contritely before the Japanese Emperor any minute now.
Sounds like this chick OADD (Organizational Attention Deficit Disorder).
Set up a group and stick with it, chiquita. What’s the point in starting a new one that does nothing every few months?
Funny how in the Wapo article Park’s quoted saying how we need to learn to talk to each other and respect each other … then you click over to the trailer for her documentary and from the first second it blasts into a portrayal of one side as repulsive pasty-faced racists and the other as saintly humble people.
24 ahead …
take you BS somewhere else …
doesn’t this ‘coffee party’ thing smell exactly like the sort of propaganda effort that the NEA was calling for from the barackies ?? slick logos and slick, scripted ‘testimonies’ that popped up, literally, overnight aren’t evidence of a fledgling grassroots movement.
…and, sure enough, it turns out that the woman who, supposedly, came up with this idea is a filmaker/artist who worked for the new york times and created the obama youtube channel among other organizations in support of the obama campaign. this is the fakest of astroturf and the most insidious sort of political activity.
Funny that she’s interested in the trafficing of Japanese women, but her allies have no interest in the trafficing of young El Salvador girls that ACORN was going to help smuggle into the country … okay, maybe ACORN wasn’t going to do the actual smuggling, but they sure were intent on helping the smuggler.
Why isn’t she trying to get legislation passed “addressing the trafficking of girls into sexual slavery” by American pimps advised by ACORN?
Hypocrite!
I think the Coffee Party people just wanted to save money by keeping their CPUSA letterhead. But seriously, you would think leftwing extremists would want to avoid collectivist language in their press releases.
Two previos article in wapo by
I Can Relate to America’s Identity Crisis http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401330.html
An Immigration Flashpoint, Through Our Lens http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/14/AR2007121401327.html
Smells like wapo is pulling the same 9/11 widows scam the NY Times pulled during the pre-Afghanistan and pre-Iraq war invasions. Close associates of paper who magically appear in paper without any disclosure of how the paper discovered them. wapo pulled this with the 8 Army captains op-ed piece who told how dire things in Iraq were but none of them had been to Iraq since 2 years prior. Then wapo wouldn’t print a piece written by 8 current captains serving in Iraq.
wapo mode of operation: Ignore Tea Party and hope it goes away. When it doesn’t go away portray it as extremist when that doesn’t work conspire to promote group started by someone with a prior association (and not disclose that fact) with wapo to counteract it.
Coffee Party… that is unvarnished genius. Can’t you just see these trust-fund radicals? First of course they deride and dismiss vast throngs of Americans objecting to the Dem/Left presumption that pockets were made for picking. But then the astroturf shows evidence of real roots so now they are dangerous; Anti-American even though why that should be an indictment on their terms is unclear. Now, in the fifth stage of grief, they have come to acceptance but even that can not include any real engagement with the IDEAS of the Tea Parties, which are merely Federalist Papers cribnotes. No, their version of acceptance can only be of the most superficial sort culminating in a monkey-see-monkey-do pantomime resurfacing their same old players in re-cut uniforms. Utterly pathetic. And just what does Coffee have to do with the American project anyhow? It is obvious that these pukes are as ignorant of the historical Tea Party as they are of our founding documents, figures and tenates. It can be assumed that the Coffee Partiers have had the best, or at least the most expensive produce of our educational system and THAT is the worst bit of the whole mess.
The Old York Times is notoriour for it’s propaganda, lying and falsifying the “news”. Think Duranty that helped Stalin murder dozens of millions of people. Now, Park is running a classic false flag propaganda operation at their direction. Like the signs say at the Teaparties; “Rahm it down our throats and we’ll jam it up your ass” The politicians have absolutely no idea how much they are feared and HATED by the general public.Fear and hate of a government by it’s people is a recipe for revolt as the people withdraw their consent to be governed by these animals.
annabel park is backed and funded by the NYT WaPo and the DNC..till recently her webpages were created through the Webb slush fund…she’s an outright fake and this is astro-turfing at its ugliest and most dangerous…obama propaganda posing as “real” activism..then all the knee-jerk libs fill the media with adulation…sickening
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It seems Annabel “Q public” Park went to an advanced screening of Michael Moore’s recent crockumentary in San Francisco.
Review of Capitalism: A Love Story
by Elisa :: Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 05:00:04 PM PST
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Last night, I went with DH and friend and filmmaker Annabel Park to see an advanced screening of Michael Moore’s latest documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. Initial reaction? We were ready to pick up our torches and pitchforks as we were reminded of how greed — I would not necessarily call this capitalism — caused for so many hardworking Americans to experience stagnant wages, predatory lending practices and lose their homes.
http://www.mothertalkers.com/story/2009/9/18/6233/-Review-of-Capitalism:-A-Love-Story
Ah it should be fun to watch the Tea Partiers and the Coffee Drinkers duke it out. Imagine the rallies and counter-rallies in Washington this summer.
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Whoops, I didn’t mean to end up here with these far right nut jobs.
There are people who might listen to what you have to say, if you could avoid the hate. Is it possible to state your position without belittling the opposition? Surely you have more confidence in what you are saying that you can convince people by reason not sarcasm. Right?
@T.Paine What are you doing?