Tonight we will be hosting an FDL Membership Town Hall webinar with special guests Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese of October2011.org, who will be discussing the planned occupation of Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC starting on October 6, 2011. We would love for you to join us.
Activists from around the world are coming to DC to participate in this important demonstration starting on October 6th against corporate control over our government. It is being organized by October2011.org, we wanted to give our members a chance to hear from two of the amazing organizers of the event, Dr. Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese.
I consider Margaret and Kevin both good friends, and I’m delighted to offer our members the opportunity to talk with them what we can expect and how people can participate.
We’re also excited to announce that Kevin Gosztola, who has been covering Occupy Wall Street over at The Dissenter, will be joining us on the call. The Occupy Wall street protesters are coming to DC to join the October2011 event, and we will be flying Kevin to DC to cover the the demonstration for FDL as long as it lasts.
Kevin Zeese is an activist and founder of Voters For Peace. Margaret is a physician and a fellow with Physicians for a National Health Program. They will start off the webinar with a presentation on the plans for October2011, and we’ll follow it up with a discussion period where they’ll be joined by FDL’s Jon Walker and Kevin Gosztola. We will then open up the event for questions, comments, and plans from our attendees.
If you are currently a member and have not yet received the invite to the event or have misplaced it, please email Ryan Cook at members AT firedoglake.com, and he will send you the information to register. If you are not a member, but would like to join us this evening, you still have time.
Click here to join at ANY level of membership, and we will send you an invite to the event today.



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Warren Getchell of the membership engagement team has called about 100 people to tell them about the webinar, so I think I’m gonna get on the phone too.
Already had a great conversation to day with Billy G. in Michigan.
So if you’re a member, I may be calling you in a few.
Hey I’ll pay up if I can sleep on your floor during the occupation .
Just kidding .
Kevin G. & Dan Choi already have dibs.
;)
I signed up and was told that it was over.
What the hell?
I will be in DC- THEN return to Minnesota to be a Street Medic for the planned Minneapolis Occupation of the Federal Reserve on October 7th.
The revolt has started. Get ready folks.
Is the doorstep up for grabs…? ;-)
here’s what i posted in response to yesterday’s webinar…
yesterday, i listened in on a webinar offered by the good folks at firedoglake… the purpose was to educate members and stir up some enthusiasm for the october 6 people’s assembly in d.c… the education part, at least for me, was redundant since i follow all the income inequality, bankster and motu stuff very closely… what i did find interesting was the rejection of any focus on electoral politics, a direct acknowledgement that our electoral, two-party system is seriously broken and an emphasis on the need for aligning ourselves behind a demand for a move (return?) to participative democracy…
i’m all one for working to put together critical mass… we’ve stood by long enough watching our super-rich elites methodically destroy any semblance of a social contract with their ugly devotion to ayn rand and social darwinism… but i confess to being utterly dismayed at the incredible splintering i witness on the so-called liberal, progressive left… everybody’s out there chasing their own special set of issues, whether it’s polar bears, mountain-top removal, act blue as the vehicle to fund progressive office-seekers, or ridiculing the latest atrocities to issue from the mouth-breathers that are attempting to pass for serious presidential candidates…
i found it refreshing to see the statement of seven principles the webinar presenters shared with the participants… this is something i can get behind…
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