Taking Back America [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
"When we fight, we grow and we get stronger," says Wes Boyd of MoveOn.org [3], one of the participants at the Take Back America conference, which brought together progressive leaders from throughout the U.S. to discuss strategies for taking back America [4]. According to Bob Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future [5], the conference demonstrated that the activists of the Democratic party - "the people who knock on doors, who register people to vote, who bring them to the polls, who talk to their neighbors n are largely united around a progressive 'kitchen table' economics. They don't need to take back the party, they are the party." In contrast with the corporate lobbyists who dominate the Democratic Leadership Council [6] (DLC), Borosage said that the base activists "only need to organize and assert themselves [7] - and then the limits and isolation of the DLC money politics become clear."