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Teamwork: AFL-CIO Union Plans Occupation of Conservative CPAC Conference

AFL CIO Encourages Occupy CPAC

Conservatives from across the country will be descending upon the nation‘s capitol later this week for the American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Occupy protesters organized by the Washington DC Metro Council of the AFL-CIO are set to greet them.

The conference is a major yearly gathering for conservative college students, activists and organizations, featuring workshops and speeches led by conservative leaders. Just to name a few of this year’s speakers: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Marco Rubio, Laura Ingrahm, Ann Coulter and our own S.E. Cupp. To mark the occasion, Washington D.C.’s AFL-CIO posted this message titled “Occupy CPAC” on its website Friday:

“With workshops like ‘Return of Big Labor: What Can We Learn from Wisconsin & Ohio,‘ and ’Taking back Wall Street: The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street,’ the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) descends on the nation’s capital February 9-11 and local labor activists are planning a DC lesson to ensure that the voice of the 99% are heard at this elite conservative gathering. Actions are currently being planned for noontime and after work on Friday, February 10. Featured speakers at CPAC include Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.”

David Freddoso of the Washington Examiner notes that the call to action is reminiscent of protests in November when union-aided Occupiers banged on windows, blocked local traffic, used children as human shields and harmed at least one woman at the D.C. conference center which was holding another conservative conference.

In addition to the usual tents and pot banging, Occupiers at CPAC plan to bring “an inflatable fat cat, puppets, ‘candidate Walmart,’ and more to LET THE VOICES OF THE 99% BE HEARD!”

That said, conservatives may not need to fret over the possibility of Occupy CPAC making a major disruption. Redstate notes that unlike the violent protest at the Americans for Prosperity event last November, CPAC will be held at the Marriot Wardman Park, private property set back from the street.

The Blaze long ago connected the dots with who is behind the Occupy movement: unions. And now, it seems they are not ashamed to reveal the teamwork.

So far, Occupy CPAC has events planned for Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening.

Comments (99)

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  • Ballzonya
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:07pm

    You sound sore that the tea party was made so irrelevant by OWS. Cry me a river!

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:05pm

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    • rock-n-roll-rebel
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:12pm

      I don’t think they are really going to show up but it would be worth watching if they did. Conflict can be productive sometimes, other times it can just get really ugly. They had better bring the whole damn union and a couple more if they are going to crash that party though.

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    • Ballzonya
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:31pm

      @rock-n-roll-rebel, look at the tough guy!

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:37pm

      I thought unions existed to NEGOTIATE WITH EMPLOYERS!?!?
      NOT, to attack the general public at large!

      WAAAY out of control.

      My coal-mining, union-member, forefathers would be ashamed of these people ! !
      They needed a union because they were being paid 25 cents per WEEK and they weren’t paid money – they were paid “****” – credits that could only be used to buy necessities from “the company store” – a store OWNED by their employer – a store where prices were marked WAY UP above the normal prices in public stores.

      I say unions should be PER EMPLOYER…
      XYZ co.’s employees create a union. That union has to represent XYZ employees in negotiation with XYZ. They are NOT allowed to unionize multiple companies into a single union. Furthermore, unions should have to be staffed by ACTUAL EMPLOYEES of the employer.
      That way, the union bosses will ACTUALLY SERVE THE EMPLOYEES. They will represent ONLY those employees. They will not be a THIRD PARTY at the table, who have THEIR OWN MOTIVES, separate from the employees.
      If they also represent a bigger group of employees at ABC co., they will get most of THEIR OWN MONEY from that larger group. So, they will negotiate more strongly for that group than for those at XYZ.

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    • michigander44
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:51pm

      U.nbelievable
      N.itwits
      I. gnoramuses
      O.bnoxious
      N.eutered
      S.talinists

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  • Ballzonya
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:05pm

    Hopefully they poop in some conservatives’ shoes!

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:55pm

    They don’t act that way around me.

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  • Hickory
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:43pm

    Remember, this is Obama’s army.

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  • freedomring
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:42pm

    Featured speakers at CPAC include Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, and presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum.” Geez what GREAT reporting Blaze…….seems you “forgot” the KEYNOTE speaker…….Sarah Palin

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    • Ballzonya
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:08pm

      Palin doesn’t speak, she screeches.

       
  • jackact
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:35pm

    America (federal income tax paying America, that is) are finished with the thug unions.
    Stick a fork in it.
    They are done

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:42pm

      union states pay federal taxes the more conservative a state is the more welfare it takes…
      get over it
      we are tired of paying for red-staters

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:48pm

      MOLOTOV…try posting in English.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:59pm

      14. Oregon
      13. Pennslyvania
      12. Michigan
      11.Rhode Island
      10. tie-New Mexico/Indiana
      9.Washington State
      8. Minnesota
      7. New York
      6. DC
      5. Vermont
      4. Massachussetts
      3. Tennessee
      2. Maine
      1. California
      http://www.cnbc.com/id/31910310/The_Biggest_US_Welfare_States?slide=1
      Hardly a majority of “red States” there Molotov.
      Sounds like your state wasted money on trying to educate you.

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    • I.Gaspar
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:01pm

      Molly,
      How many letters do you have in your alphabet?
      You should probably go find some others like you to converse with.

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    • IMCHRISTIAN
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:04pm

      The more the money union gets and the more union head gets the more it is just passed right along from the employer to the customers. Yes, we the customers. That is why the world is in such a mess a lot of selfishness and stupidity.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:39pm

      @Molly
      My Bad! Where ARE my manners- – -Thankew! We “preciate it!
      Psst! Tell the truth- your boss tells you what to write, doesn’t he??

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    • Deep_Thoughts
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:31pm

      @Molotov, Proof?

      Report Post » Deep_Thoughts  
  • amerbur
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:34pm

    Are they trying to start a fight?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:38pm

      Yes exactly…they ARE trying to start an incident. This election cycle OWS and it’s allies will target as many conservative and tea party events they can to provoke an incident. They know that the compliant media will then use the incident to smear conservatives and the tea parties. Don’t give these lefties what they want.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Ever thought that just MAYBE you need to mederate thje prozac??

      Report Post » Mateytwo Barreett  
    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:52pm

      Avengerk-

      Yeah, that strategy has work out great so far. The fact is it doesn’t matter how good the tea party acts, they will still be called a racist/ terrorist group and occupy guys will be labeled good. Time to take gloves off and kick them in the jimmy (jimmy hoffa…)

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:31pm

    Read your history. The first thing communists outlaw after taking power are labor unions.

    Useful idiots.

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    • umreb78
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:42pm

      Perhaps Blackcrow, but if you really want to study history, you surely realize that the unions are abolished ONLY AFTER their assistance is completed in taking down the “former government” RIGHT??? Don’t forget the USEFUL part of useful idiots…That describes the useful part. And its intuitively obvious to even the most casual of observers where the “idiot” component comes from.

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    • RagingJudge
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:08pm

      That was his point…

      Report Post » RagingJudge  
  • inexiletill2012
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:30pm

    Stock up on pepper spray and tazers

    Report Post » inexiletill2012  
  • COFemale
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:28pm

    I would carry one of those air-horns and air plugs and if OWS approached me in a threatening manner or where I felt my person was in danger, I would use it. Nothing like an air-horn in your face.

    Even the one on BS of A caused me to plug my ears and I was not even in the vicinity, it was through my laptop and my volume was not that high; it was the constant and elevating volume that bothered me. Don’t do this in the future BS of A without a verbal warning, I have a hearing issues as it is.

    These people are getting out of hand and need to get reigned in. I don’t care if they want to protest, but when they approach people, block people and become a menace to society, they have crossed the line and I will use any means necessary to take them down.

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  • Quagaar Warrior
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:12pm

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    I. nsisting
    O. n
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    S. ocialism!
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  • SoupSandwich
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:08pm

    Lets hope private security doesn’t mace an OWSer hag and her toddler she is pushing into the fray.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:03pm

    These unions are nothing but parasites draining the host,their leaders are greedy fat cats who exploit the workers for their own gain.They’re driving jobs out of the country with the aid of our Marxist president and the sooner we rid ourselves of these union parasites the better.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:13pm

      40 years ago i had to join a union to work construction on a condo in boco fl. after showing up for work i was told to sit and if anything was needed they would let us know………the general lobors had a problem of running out of smokes while we waited for someone to call us to do something…..i have not belonged to a union since

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    • mr molotov cocktail
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:45pm

      red-staters are the parasites…. dollar into the fed dollar out-
      no more welfare for red-staters! let us blue-staters keep our money we could afford our social causes

      Report Post » mr molotov cocktail  
    • AvengerK
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:49pm

      MOLOTOV….what language are you posting in?

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:27pm

      Molotov
      Problem is, the Blue States don’t HAVE any money, they’ve spent more than they have and are borrowing from the Red States (see my previous post to you) (if you can read)

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:04pm

      MOLOTOV Your brain has been thoroughly washed by public school employee union thugs,you go to the head of the class.I’ll make it simple so even you can figure it out,red state normal people,blue state communists/socialists/progressives ie enemies of the constitution a bunch of liberty rapers.

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    • Tscurt
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:18pm

      MOLOTOV, I live in Cali and I can tell you for a fact that we have no money… and WHO’S fault would that be? OH YEAHH mine because the government spend my money irresponsibly.

      It’s not too late to finish your socialistic public school career even if you dropped out 5 years ago.

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    • Zipit
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:42pm

      Deal Molotov! You keep all of your “money” and all of us red staters will keep all of our food!

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Where is TEA when you need them???

    Report Post » banjarmon  
    • hidden_lion
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:56pm

      Tea party has been diluted and is washing away. No body wants to play now that things are going ot get rough.

      Report Post » hidden_lion  
  • Atilla
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:57pm

    Thats what I like, democracy and 1st.Amendment rights as long as the Marxist, socialist line is being promoted. It’s all about the government being considered as the arbitor of political thought. National Socialist Workers Party (Nazi’s) reincarnated.

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:53pm

    I wonder when the union workers are going to wise up and strike against the union heads. The heads make way to much money and must be the 1% of the 99% workers. Maybe they can get Soros to help them out. Of course, I am just kidding as what I really want is this country to be at peace. To all those that have destroyed or desecrated other peoples property will eventually be sorry whether here on earth or in the next life. God Bless America.

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  • ares338
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:46pm

    Now you see why an intelligent person would not like socialism. They want to be heard loud and clear and scream out their right to be heard but when a conservative group wants equal rights they just cannot stand it.

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    • BOMUSTGO
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:50pm

      George Soros loves it when his plans come together.

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  • acovenantinblood
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:44pm

    “Just to name a few of this year’s speakers: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Marco Rubio, Laura Ingrahm, Ann Coulter and our own S.E. Cupp.”

    This crates a problem. None of these people are worth listening too. Where’s Coolidge? Where’s Washington?

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    • SoupSandwich
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:04pm

      The problems, like the OWSers, should be crated and maybe their noses rubbed in their urine and fecal matter, to show them what matters. Bad doggy, in the crate.

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    • american1st
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:24pm

      WHERE IS RON PAUL???? i guess CPAC doesn’t like having a constitutionalists winning their straw polls and having the best received speeches… i know some of the kids that support him have gotten a bit carried away in the past, but that is no reason to silence him… even if you wont vote for him his message is one conservatives need to hear….

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:02pm

      AMERICAN1ST Ron Paul will be meeting with the 911 truthers
      http://www.myspace.com/video/peace-freedom-are-achieved-through-understanding/ron-paul-meets-the-student-scholars-for-9-11-truth/28483925
      Or some other Kooks…

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:18pm

      CPAC 2011. Paul’s supporters are young, focused, and they move in blocks. In fact, there is something oddly robotic about the way Paul supporters, in aggregate, comport themselves. Legions of them marched in for the results of the straw poll and then filed out immediately after the results were done. Again, kind of like robots. They didn‘t even stick around for Allen West’s speech, which was clearly a highlight and a delight to all conservatives. The man is brilliant, engaging, rock-ribbed and fearless, and a true natural leader. His speech could not have been much better, and I suspect that 99% of actual conservatives would agree.

      Q: Who wouldn‘t want to see West’s speech?

      A: Pretty much only Ron Paul supporters, for whom it’s Paul or nothing.

      Really, there is something of a disconnect there, very much in evidence at CPAC. You basically have the Paul supporters and everyone else. The phenomenon is odd and very disappointing. It‘s felt by many that Paul supporters skew the polls and erode it’s credibility.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:24pm

      Just for the Paul groupies…

      Threatening the genuine small-government love that has endeared him to supporters, Ron Paul may have taken money from the government for flights his campaign and political action committees were already paying for. After looking through statements on a credit card assigned to Ron Paul & Associates Inc., Roll Call lays out its case that Paul double-billed many flights by matching prices and dates of plane tickets charged to his campaign or PACs and also to taxpayers:

      Roll Call identified eight flights for which the Texas Republican, a GOP presidential candidate and leading champion of smaller government, was reimbursed twice for the same trip. Roll Call also found dozens more instances of duplicate payments for travel from 1999 to 2009, totaling thousands of dollars’ worth of excess payments, but the evidence in those cases is not as complete.

      Predictably, Paul’s office “vigorously denies” the charge.

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    • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:34pm

      It‘s worth noting Paul’s hands-off relationship with “Ron Paul & Associates Inc.” in the past. That‘s the organization was one of two to publish Ron Paul’s kinda racist newsletters in the ‘80s and ’90s. Ones that Paul, while running for president in 2012, says he never ever knew about but probably did…

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  • momrules
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:36pm

    OWS will not let a little thing like CPAC being held at “Marriot Wardman Park, private property set back from the street” stop them.

    These folk have proven that they have no respect for anyone or anything. Not themselves, not anyone they perceive as their enemy and certainly not private property rights.

    God protect the attendees of CPAC because the authorities won’t.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:45pm

      You have voiced my concern with this. The powers that be in DC will not allow the police to do their real job and protect the CPAC, or the private property. I truly wonder how long it will take this hotel to recover and reopen after the union thugs and occupiers finish. Frankly, I hope the hotel and the CPAC have some well armed and trained security onsite.

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    • goahead.makemyday
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 2:20pm

      They should have lots of big neon signs saying TRESPASSERS WILL BE FIRED UPON. Then when the first few come over the fence and onto private property kneecap them with a bullet. Maybe then they’ll get the message, also record them making the first move with a live feed online.

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    • RagingJudge
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 4:18pm

      Forget kneecaps, shoot for center of mass. Don’t let them tell their side of the story and have the ACLU screw our side over even more.

      Report Post » RagingJudge  
  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:35pm

    “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
    - David Rockefeller.

    Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:34pm

    We need House of Un-American activities committee 2.0 These union commie thugs need to be exposed, put on trial, prosecuted, and deported out of the US.

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:15pm

      I could not agree more. We must have trials of these people. How much more do we have to witness? These people are traitors!

      Report Post » Lesterp  
    • CatB
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 1:22pm

      Many in the Senate and White House .. would need to be included ..

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 3:51pm

      Kinda puts the illegal immigrant situation in perspective!!!

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  • BOMUSTGO
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:28pm

    I have never seen this world or our country in such a mess…Division keeps us divided to ensure a great fall so the NWO elites can put the peices back together again.

    Report Post » BOMUSTGO  
  • Eric_The_Red_State
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:27pm

    This ought to be good. A bunch of employed – working class – blue collar healthy people clash with flag butt wiping – snivelling – tattood – pot smoking – smelly – lazy welfare recipients.

    Someone‘s butt is going to be occupied by someone’s shoe.

    Report Post » Eric_The_Red_State  
  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:24pm

    The “occupiers” are the “useful idiots” spoken of by Communists. These people are being manipulated into thinking they are fighting against the elites of Wall Street, when they are in fact being used by the Wall Street elites to bring down the Conservative movement which is trying to save our nation from the man in the Oval Office who is destroying our nation.

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