Launch of Green Tea Coalition Drives a Wedge Through Georgia’s Tea Party

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/launch-green-tea-coalition-drives-wedge-through-georgia-s-tea-party-1375968980

“The Tea Party has formed an unholy alliance with the left,” Debbie Dooley recalls a panicked member of Georgia’s big energy lobby lamenting.

Dooley, a co-founder of the Atlanta Tea Party Patriots, doesn’t deny the charges. In fact, she is set this Tuesday to celebrate the official launch of the Green Tea Coalition – the same “unholy alliance” of right and left grassroots that has big oil interests reeling.

“It’s an unholy alliance because they see it as a threat to them,” Dooley said, speaking ahead of the launch. “In the past, the elites on both the right and the left got away with it. On the right, they’d say, ‘This person’s on the left. Stay away from them,’ On the left, they’d say, ‘They’re radical, they’re the Tea Party. Stay away from them.’

"But we got through all that bull, got to know each other, and started working together,” she said.And it’s not the first time. In 2012, the Atlanta Tea Patriot Patriots joined the NAACP and the Sierra Club to successfully defeat a $7.2 billion transit tax referendum. That same year, Tea joined forces with Occupy Atlanta and the AFL-CIO to stop an anti-union bill that would have banned protests at private residences (the bill sought to protect the “right of quiet enjoyment” of CEOs).

The threat of a grassroots movement united across ideological lines manifested itself again last month when the Tea Party Patriots – allied with environmentalists of the Sierra Club – triumphed in a win for solar energy.

[Gman]

1. I've tried to explain to teabagger friends that

They can't imagine how much they have in common with progressives. Such a coalition would be the plutocracy's worst nightmare.

[90-percent]

2. Nightmares?

I want the plutocrats to get so many nightmares they die from lack of sleep!

I'm going to learn about this Green Tea Party - it sounds like they're on to something!

-90% Jimmy

[Gormy Cuss]

3. I know no one on the left who calls the Tea Party radical

and I'm not interested in any unholy alliances with them.

[Rebellious Republican]

4. I believe that people are starting to wake up.....

and realize that the 1 percenters are purposely keeping us all divided. Their worst nightmare is just this and it spreading across the nation. Its time to start building bridges and quit burning them. So that we may become the UNITED states of America once again.

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth".

Abraham Lincoln


Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin101395.html#ll8tmwTCD5XyrrLj.99

[truebluegreen]

9. +1

[MelungeonWoman]

5. I hope this gains traction.

If there's some way to make the tea partiers realize they have more in common with the 99%ers than the elite repubs it could really shake things up.

People of both left and right persuasion joined forces to defeat the nazis, for the sake of all our children we can do it again and defend our common values against the elite.

[starroute]

6. An alliance against the Trans-Pacific Partnership would be appropriate

Speak up against a stealth attempt by big government to violate environmental and workplace protections undermining national sovereignty. What better to bring Occupiers and Tea Partiers together?

[BainsBane]

7. The Koch Brothers won't like this

not one bit.

[KamaAina]

8. Taxed Enough Already

might they be interested in seeing corporations pay their fair share?