Annabel Park is a 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 US and Asia. Her writings have been published by cnn.com and the Washington Post.
She co-directed a ground-breaking documentary about America’s culture war over immigration, 9500 Liberty, with Eric Byler. The critically acclaimed film has won three film festival awards and was released on cable by MTV.
She is the founder of the Coffee Party, a growing grassroots democracy movement with over 500,000 people in the network. The Coffee Party has been featured in stories by national and international media.
2012 & the Change We Still Need
Note: I am speaking here as a private citizen, not for the Coffee Party. I stepped down from the Coffee Party Board of Directors in January of 2012. The Coffee Party will not be endorsing any candidate. This is the bottom-line on the 2012 election for me: Don’t vote for Obama if you’re okay with handing over our federal government to Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers. If you want to avoid that, vote for Obama.
If we want systemic change (and I am desperate for it), we know we’re not going to get it just by having Obama in office for another four years. I believe we need a long-term (about 30 years), multifaceted, strategic plan for real systemic change. More on this later on this weekend.
