Annabel Park
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Annabel is a Maryland-based writer, filmmaker and speaker who is known for her innovative work in netroots/grassroots activism. She has made numerous TV and radio appearances and has been invited to speak throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. She co-directed an award-winning documentary about America's culture war over immigration, 9500 Liberty, with Eric Byler. She is the founder and president of Coffee Party USA, a growing grassroots, non-partisan network of over half a million people fighting for Wall Street reform, campaign finance reform, and tax code reform. She studied philosophy at Boston University and political theory at Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and immigrated to Houston, TX when she was nine years old with her family. She grew up working at a truck diner owned by her parents.

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Eric Cantor's Extreme Makeover Interrupted By Ghost of Reagan

5 Comments | Posted January 4, 2012 | 10:30:44 (EST)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor set out to "humanize" his image by doing a 60 Minutes interview with Leslie Stahl that aired on New Year's Day. This is how Stahl explains the context of the interview, "President Obama has made Eric Cantor the face of Republican inflexibility."

Although it did...

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In Congress We Do Not Trust: More Bipartisan Insanity

3 Comments | Posted November 2, 2011 | 15:09:54 (EST)

I had promised myself that my next blog post would be about my experience of the Citizens Intervention rally at the US Capitol. But, I came across this story and I had to write something.

Our courageous and wise leaders, our Representatives in the House, voted 396-9 yesterday to...

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Occupied America: Bridging the Divide

13 Comments | Posted October 28, 2011 | 14:26:55 (EST)

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our...
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