Reply #64: You'll come up with this..... [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

along with two other Wake Up Wal-Mart activists, emerged from the youthful enthusiasm of the Howard Dean presidential campaign, which used the Internet creatively and made activists of people who'd never before believed in the political process. (Another member of the Wake Up Wal-Mart team comes from the Draft Wesley Clark campaign, the Internet-based group that raised large sums of money for Clark before he'd even agreed to run in the 2004 presidential campaign.)
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/08/02/walmart/index.html


Now the union has recruited strategists from the 2004 Howard Dean and Wesley Clark campaigns, and they are mounting a crusade that goes beyond the usual union tactics, such as the boycott or shareholder resolution expressing disapproval of a company’s policies.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8333653/

WakeUpWalMart.com is run by Paul Blank, political director for Howard Dean's 2004 Democratic presidential campaign, and Chris Kofinis, a former political professor who helped draft retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark into the same race.

Their campaign has all the markings of the Dean and Clark insurgencies _ a snappy Web site, volunteer action lists and an issues-based grass-roots campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/23/AR2006042300384_pf.html