Liberals hope rally rivals Beck's
By
Scott Wong
Politico
October 01, 2010
“This is the kick off for organizing the base that helped elect the president,” said Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, which advocates for clean energy and green jobs.
Organizers of the event, called “One Nation Coming Together,” are hoping to recapture some of the enthusiasm among liberals that catapulted Barack Obama into the White House in 2008. And they want to drown out the conservative tea party movement whose primary upsets and angry calls to “take back the country” have dominated airwaves in the past year.
