15,000 Progressive Activists in Detroit: Why No Media or Respect?

alternet.org — It’s not surprising that the mainstream media is paying little attention to the 15,000-plus community organizers and progressive activists gathered in Detroit, Michigan this week for the second United States Social Forum. But why is it that the Tea Party—the right-wing edge of the conservative political sphere—exerts a gravitational pull on the Republican party and the conservative mainstream while the leaders and groups of the United States Social Forum, representing the left of the liberal mainstream, are disregarded as marginal and irrelevant—that is, if they’re regarded at all?

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