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Obama's radical pal plans grassroots assault
WND ^ | November 15, 2010 | Aaron Klein

Posted on 11/16/2010 5:47:48 AM PST by maggief

NEW YORK – A longtime radical associate of President Obama has proposed the creation of a massive grassroots organization to petition for a "progressive" agenda, including on health care and the environment.

Marilyn Katz, an extremist activist in Chicago with close ties to Weather Underground terrorist group founder William Ayers, urged the formation of a "national grassroots vehicle" that would not only articulate a "progressive agenda" and interact with congressional leaders, "but also be broad and creative enough in their thinking to involve the ordinary, everyday people who found both meaning and community in 2008."

Katz, who sat on the finance committee of Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, was writing at In These Times, a Chicago-based socialist journal that boasts an editorial board including Ayers and his wife, co-founder of the Weather Underground, Benardine Dohrn.

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To: maggief

thankfully there just is not a very large “grassroots” to be organized out there in support of the Weather Underground agenda.

Lots of welfare sponges, but they aren’t likely to want to get themselves off the couch to go take to the streets and plant bombs.


21 posted on 11/16/2010 6:25:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: maggief

Thanks for the ping. The woman sounds full of herself...lol. There was alot of info on FR about her before the election if I remember correctly. Her FBI file for one. She is a real nutter.


22 posted on 11/16/2010 6:31:30 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: DTogo

Coffee Party Redux?

Sounds more like the ‘Hippie Has Been Party’ to me.


23 posted on 11/16/2010 6:38:48 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: andy58-in-nh; stephenjohnbanker; TommyDale; Grampa Dave; Libloather; sickoflibs; penelopesire; ...
A very brief history of Marilyn Katz:
* Former activist with the Students for a Democratic Society
* Participated in 1968 and 1969 Chicago riots
* Founded (in 1972) the New American Movement, an organization devoted to the teachings of the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci
* Founded a public-relations firm in 1983, which deals with many leftist clients
* Friend, advisor, and political supporter of Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama, and Michelle Obama

Mmmmmm....you forgot the Costco nose job.......

Katz sat on a three-legged stool in the tool dept. A Costco clerk comes by with a ball peen hammer, breaks her nose, then reshapes it with a wire cutter. A bit of duct tape and she was good to go.

24 posted on 11/16/2010 6:41:07 AM PST by Liz (Marxist O/Care provides two brands of toothpaste---mint and plain.)
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To: Liz; STARWISE; maggief; onyx; hoosiermama

Sounds like she probably knows where all the bones are buried...like the Oil For Food scam/money that went into Obama’s campaign coffers back in the day in exchange for him coming out against the war. No solid proof yet...just very strong suspicions.

October 12, 2008
Don’t tell me - ANOTHER radical in Obama’s background?
Ed Lasky
Recognize a name here among the beneficiaries of taxpayer dollars?

As Chicago (and Illinois, for that matter) reels from a fiscal crisis resulting in a cutback of services and layoffs of thousands, Mayor Daley spends many millions on public relations and image building.

One of the beneficiaries is Marilyn Katz. Where have I heard that name before? She is a bundler for Barack Obama, a person with a radical past (head of security for the Students for a Democratic Society-SDS-fromm which Bill Ayers’ militant Weathermen group splintered).

She was also the prinicpal organizer of the now famous 2002 antiwar rally in which Barack Obama spoke against the Iraq War. And she serves on his finance committee as well as hosting fundraisers for him and donating thousands of dollars to the cause.

She traveled to the Democratic convention, serving as a member of the credentials committee. She has links to Bill Ayers . She makes herself readily available to provide spin to downplay the Ayers-Obama relationship (see today’s superb Chicago Tribune article by the intrepid columnist John Kass):
One friend of Obama and Ayers is former ‘60s radical Marilyn Katz, now an Obama fundraiser, strategist and public relations maven. She’s often a go-to quote for reporters to knock down the Ayers-Obama story.

“What Bill Ayers and [former Black Panther, now U.S. Rep.] Bobby Rush . . . did 40 years ago has nothing to do with [the presidential campaign],” Katz was quoted as saying in the Chicago Sun-Times in April. “[Ayers] has a national reputation. He lectures at Harvard [University] and Vassar [College].”

What that story and many other pro-Obama articles gloss over is that during the violent protests of the 1968 Democratic National Convention here, Katz was the security chief for the radical Students for a Democratic Society. She once advocated throwing studded nails in front of police cars, back in the SDS days when the group was alleged to have thrown cellophane bags full of human excrement at cops and cans of urine and golf balls impaled with nails.

How things change.

Under this Daley, her firm, MK Communications, has many city deals, and one involves public relations for the Chicago Police Department’s community policing program. From nails to contracts, the Chicago Way. Apparently, irony was not a ‘60s thing.

Now, as Daley prepares to lay off more than 1,000 city workers, he’s given Katz and other public relations firms five-year contracts that could pay them as much as $5 million each for consulting, advertising and promotion.

Getting in good with Daley hasn’t been bad for business. She also lists as her clients Daley’s Chicago Housing Authority, Daley’s City Colleges, Daley’s city Law Department, and Daley’s Departments of Aviation, Environment, Housing, Human Services, Planning and Development, Public Health, Public Works, Streets and Sanitation, Intergovernmental Affairs, Special Events—the list goes on.

Fired workers-the little people? Services being shut down? Infrastructure crumbling? School kids ripped off?

Ahh..who cares..as long as the public realtions machine and image building can flourish in the hands of people who make it their job to create illusions and delusions


25 posted on 11/16/2010 7:00:47 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Venturer

You can bet on it!


26 posted on 11/16/2010 7:01:03 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: maggief; Liz; hoosiermama; STARWISE; onyx

“In Recalling Her 1960’s Activism, Katz Has Said She Was For “Sexual Freedom And A Democratic Socialist Paradise.”

LOL!

http://theobamafile.com/_associates/MarilynKatz.htm


27 posted on 11/16/2010 7:06:06 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: penelopesire; maggief; hoosiermama; STARWISE
Here's a likeness of Katz in her misspent youth.

"I learned sexual experimentation in a Socialist Paradise: attaching sex toys
to a saber saw blade and then using the high-powered device on my partner."

28 posted on 11/16/2010 7:28:05 AM PST by Liz (Marxist O/Care provides two brands of toothpaste---mint and plain.)
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To: silverleaf

George Soros, Marilyn Katz, Bill Ayers. What is it with these self loathing jews? Why don’t they go live in that communist paradise, Cuba or China.


29 posted on 11/16/2010 7:36:08 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Liz

LOL!!

From the looks of her now, I would say that all that anti-american/marxist fervor and ‘sexual freedom’ can really age a gal.


30 posted on 11/16/2010 7:36:22 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: maggief

We have the TEA Parties. They tried the Coffee Party and that failed. Maybe they can create the Coke Party in honor of the One.


31 posted on 11/16/2010 7:44:42 AM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: penelopesire
All that anti-american/marxist fervor and ‘sexual freedom’ can really age a gal....

Musta been hard on her boobs, too. The perk is gone.

32 posted on 11/16/2010 7:51:24 AM PST by Liz (Marxist O/Care provides two brands of toothpaste---mint and plain.)
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To: Liz

Not sure that is what caused the drop...it was probably caused by breastfeeding Obama and Ayers for 30 years....lol.


33 posted on 11/16/2010 7:55:44 AM PST by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Liz

LOL!

Seems like Obaba has resurrected all the old fossils from SDS.


34 posted on 11/16/2010 9:19:01 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: maggief; GQuagmire; wintertime; Fred Nerks; null and void; stockpirate; george76; PhilDragoo; ...
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. . . . Article, and maggief's comments, also check out:

# 10 , # 18 , # 19 , # 25 .

[Thanks, maggief.]

35 posted on 11/16/2010 9:29:13 AM PST by LucyT
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To: maggief

bump


36 posted on 11/16/2010 9:44:40 AM PST by tutstar
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To: maggief

I envision a new bumper sticker: Cancer is Progressive


37 posted on 11/16/2010 10:35:35 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: silverleaf
In April 2008 Katz told the Chicago Sun-Times that she had first met Ayers when he was a 17-year-old fellow member of Students for a Democratic Society, "a peaceful group from which the Weather Underground splintered." (emphasis added)

I can't stop laughing.

38 posted on 11/16/2010 11:41:26 AM PST by Faith
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To: SJackson; Nachum; Islaminaction; unspun

has info re 0’s pal Katz who is involved with Jstreet


39 posted on 11/16/2010 11:49:34 AM PST by tutstar
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To: LucyT
Marilyn Katz was an active member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Katz played a leading role in the SDS rioting around the 1968 Democratic Party conference in Chicago.

"Support Bill Ayers"

In October 2008, several thousand college professors, students and academic staff signed a statement Support Bill Ayers in solidarity with former Weather Underground Organization terrorist Bill Ayers.

In the run up to the U.S. presidential elections, Ayers had come under considerable media scrutiny, sparked by his relationship to presidential candidate Barack Obama.

We write to support our colleague Professor William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, who is currently under determined and sustained political attack...

We, the undersigned, stand on the side of education as an enterprise devoted to human inquiry, enlightenment, and liberation. We oppose the demonization of Professor William Ayers.

Marilyn Katz signed the statement[7].

KEYWIKI LINK

40 posted on 11/16/2010 3:37:52 PM PST by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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