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Puma PAC Official Schedule of Events
Denver, Colorado

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24

PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Meet and Greet
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME.
All Pumas, Hillary Supporters, and Friends of Puma PAC WELCOME! Come and meet all the Pumas from around the country who are gathering in Denver for the Convention. We will have signs, buttons, stickers, t-shirts, and other PUMA Gear for you to take with you on your travels through Denver and beyond. We will also have snacks and drinks to keep you refreshed and energized. Restroom facilities and parking available on premises. This is the place to go for ALL of the info you need: schedules, maps, instructions, shuttle rides, rally signs, sign supplies, flyers and handouts. Visit OFTEN during your stay.

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Live Blogging
Wireless and wired internet access, printers, office supplies, and community for all your live blogging needs. Access email and catch up on the news. Bring your own internet-ready laptop.  If we get too crowded we will begin scheduling internet access.

Puma PAC Media Loft - PRIVATE LOCATION
8:00 p.m.  - Audacity of Democracy Screening and Party
This is an invitation only event for Puma PAC members, Puma Friends, members of the Press, and Delegates. We will be screening the latest installment of our documentary, “The Audacity of Democracy,” at 9:00 p.m.  Doors will close when we reach capacity. Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres will be available.

MONDAY, AUGUST 25th

PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Rise and Rally!
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME
Puma PAC HQ will be open ALL DAY and evening as a resource center, meeting place, and rest stop. You can pick up signs, t-shirts, goodies, and refreshments here anytime. This is the place to gather BEFORE the Beautiful Protest and Rise at Cheesman Park. We will be making signs and handing them out. You can get your t-shirts and buttons and candles here. We will have some shuttle vans/cars taking people over to the Park - but if you have your own car, please bring it! We’ll put you to work helping get people to the park!

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Live Blogging
Wireless and wired internet access, printers, office supplies, and community for all your live blogging needs. Access email and catch up on the news. Bring your own internet-ready laptop.  If we get too crowded we will begin scheduling internet access.

CHEESMAN PARK - East 8^th Avenue
4:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Beautiful Protest and Rise
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME.
A Celebration of Hillary Clinton’s Historic Presidential Campaign! What makes this historical event special? It’s not just because it’s named after Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Rise,” but that it will also close with the lighting of candles to pay tribute to Hillary and all of her achievements, while also symbolically reigniting the flame of America’s great Democracy and Lady  Liberty’s torch.  Candles will Rise as participants at Cheesman Park and communities across the nation will recognize Senator Clinton’s achievements in one harmonious gesture of celebration. This will be a marvelous opportunity for those who worked on Hillary’s behalf and her supporters as well as all who believe in and appreciate our Liberty and Democracy to come together and enjoy an afternoon and evening of  festivities. This is a free event; all Hillary supporters/fans are welcome.  Puma Pac activities begin at 4:00 p.m. and end at 6:00 p.m. The Rise 2008 takes over at 6:00 p.m. Speakers and entertainment begin at 7 p.m.. The festivities will end with the national “RISE” candle salute to Hillary, Democracy and Lady Liberty at precisely 9:45 MDT.
 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26TH

PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Ambassador Day
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME.
Puma PAC HQ will be open ALL DAY and evening as a resource center, meeting place, and rest stop. You can pick up signs, t-shirts, goodies, and refreshments here anytime.

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Live Blogging
Wireless and wired internet access, printers, office supplies, and community for all your live blogging needs. Access email and catch up on the news. Bring your own internet-ready laptop.  If we get too crowded we will begin scheduling internet access.

7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Hillary Clinton’s Address to the Convention
MEDIA WELCOME. We will have a 46″ flat screen TV set up for everyone to watch Hillary’s historic address on the 88^th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Drinks and light food will be served. 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27th

PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. - Ambassador Day
MEDIA AND DELEGATES WELCOME.
Puma PAC HQ will be open ALL DAY and evening as a resource center, meeting place, and rest stop. You can pick up signs, t-shirts, goodies, and refreshments here anytime.

10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Live Blogging
Wireless and wired internet access, printers, office supplies, ETC for all your live blogging needs. You can also check email and check up on the news. Bring your own laptop.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28th

PUMA PAC HQ, 1325 Delaware Street
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - The Lion’s Share
Closing the convention with our community. Gather to share your experiences, your thoughts, your emotions.  Celebrate our achievements and plan for November.

WE are the ones NO ONE was expecting!

~Darragh Murphy, Founder, PUMA PAC

For Zee, who told a crowd of rich people attending an Obama Fundraiser last night, “Democracy is not something I intend to ‘Just get over.’”

Zee went all by herself to Boston to hold a homemade sign on the sidewalk outside Barack Obama’s fundraiser last night. Her sign was yellow with black lettering. It read “Selected Not Elected.” After holding her sign for half an hour or so she was accosted by a young man who accused her of harassment of the well-heeled Bostonians tottering into the party.

“He thought it would be cute to call me Puta. After that, these young guys are thinking ha-ha-ha this one guy is calling her an idiot so we can gang up on this lone woman and that’s when the other kids moved in and just surrounded. They grabbed my sign and tore it up and threw it in the street. They called me racist, whore, and bitch.

This old, muscled, tatooed veteran with a cane came to my rescue. He broke up the mob and faced them down. He said, ‘How old are you?’ to the young guys attacking me. ‘You don’t know anything. Don’t tell me you know anything!’ He hobbled off after the young men dispersed.

This other man came up to me and said, ‘Thanks for making a spectacle of yourself. Thanks for being a model of grace and modesty.’ He was pretending to be nice.

Afterward, there was this young guy, and he came up to me and put his arm around me and just said ‘Thank you.’ He was just someone who was watching. I said, ‘You’re going to make me cry. And he said, ‘No, I’m serious. THANK YOU’”

From every Puma across the nation, Zee, “THANK YOU.”

A note to maniacs who make death threats: They don’t work. They harden the opposition to your cause because they expose your true nature as a homicidal bully. They also rally the support of the vast majority of decent people who are outraged by the tactic. You turn your target into a hero, and if you succeed in either murdering or inciting the murder of your victim, you turn her or him into a martyr. Not the best plan.

I’m a grown woman and I’m not afraid of bullies — never have been, never will be. But I do have children, and anyone who has lost their mother at a young age understands the profound and long-lasting grief that flows from that. Anyone who threatens me or any of the the other women in this movement with death for expressing our political views peacefully and lawfully will fail at frightening me — but he will succeed at terrorizing innocent children. And THAT makes me angry.

Senator Obama’s supporters asked Hillary Clinton to publicly distance herself from a long-time Hillraiser fundraiser and loyal supporter, Ricki Lieberman, who is working day and night to save our party from a landslide loss in November by highlighting the weaknesses of Obama the candidate. Senator Clinton promptly complied.

Perhaps we should ask Senator Obama to “distance” himself from his supporters who are threatening women who oppose him with death? What do YOU think HIS response will be?

THE OBAMA MOVEMENT’S CALL FOR DEATH TO WOMEN WHO OPPOSE HIM WATCH

So far, my list includes these women. If you have received threats of violence or death from Obama supporters because of your political activities or writing, or you know someone who has, please tell us in comments. Also send me an email at murphy@pumapac.org

• Riverdaughter of the Confluence
• Digby
• Diane at JSND
• Murphy at Puma PAC
• Paula Abeles
• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
• Patsy, Soldier For Hillary
• Sugar from PA
• IP from Puma PAC
• Heidi Li of the Denver Group

QUOTE OF THE DAY:  “Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry!” - Susan B. Anthony

Read this post by my hero, Riverdaughter, to find out what’s going on for Puma PAC. She does it WAY better than I could, so I’m going to lean on her. Then come back.

Apparently we watch television for four and a half hours a day. After sleeping and working I think that means we spend ALL of our time watching T.V. It makes our minds weak and our wills weaker. Advertising has an unambiguous and proven effect on our brains. TURN IT OFF. Everyone will be happier. Everyone will be smarter. Everyone will be more calm and kind. Everyone will be a better citizen.

What does this have to do with anything, you may ask? Watching television is an exercise in brain conditioning. Kind of like cult indoctrination. Here’s how it works. Read this and in comments cite specific examples of cult indoctrination techniques you’ve observed in a certain “Leader’s” Movement.

1. The Goal
Every cult has a stated, vague and metaphorical goal. Because this goal must serve as the “illuminated eye” of the pyramid, it cannot be attainable. Rather, it is expressed as an abstract idea - like “salvation” - which the cult members will enjoy once they have made it to the top of the pyramid.

2. A Charismatic Leader
All cults - whether spiritual or mundane - have a charismatic figurehead. The leader must be someone whose speech, manner and energy exert inexplicable influence. In religious cults, the leader attains his divine status in one of two ways. The first is by claiming to be the hand-picked successor to the last guru. The second is by claiming to embody an entirely new spiritual force - either to have been born sacred or to have suffered an “awakening” trauma or a sudden “new breeze” of insight.

3. Sacred Doctrine
Most cults have a sacred text or doctrine. Often a cult will adopt an established text, like the Bible or the Koran. Others use a spontaneously revealed doctrine. These are usually “channeled” or transcribed.

4. Divine Coincidence
New members must learn of the cult as if by grace. If the members believe they came to the cult through conscious or rational process, then they are in a position to take responsibility and credit for their participation. Cults try to avoid this perception because members should be separated from their sense of willpower in order to be fully indoctrinated.

5. Positive Results Through Commitment
While discovery and introduction are almost always free, the newcomer is told that he will experience satisfaction only when he has made a financial or equivalent commitment. At sales meetings for another of the cults I investigated, writing a check was equated with the first step toward changing one’s life, and new members reported feeling results the moment they made this commitment.

6. Extraordinary Measures
Once new members have made their initial surrender or contribution to the cult, they are asked to do something that contradicts their judgement. What’s important is that the act goes against the new members’ own internal sense of appropriateness. The members must get used to acting against their own values.

7. Member Complicity
Once an extraordinary measure is taken, the members are rewarded with complicity in the greater pyramid. To get out of the cult after this act of complicity, a member will have to own up to all of the cult’s practices as if they were his/her own.

8. A Cycle of Breaking “Self”
After extracting extraordinary measures and complicity, the cult exploits the commonly practiced spiritual discipline of self-denial and demands increasingly difficult acts of faith from its followers. Sometimes these requests seem to benefit the cult - members are instructed to donate huge sums of money or contribute tremendous time and labor to the cult. Just as often, however, these requests will be completely arbitrary or even against the interests of the cult. By interspersing real requests with these random and bizarre instructions, the cult can avoid the appearance of self-interest. It can also paralyze the followers’ ability to second-guess cult actions.

9. Confusion and Transference
By alternating self-interested and random demands, the cult brings its followers into a state of great confusion - they aren’t sure how to please the cult. Sometimes leaders will reward members who fail to carry out commands, and punish those who complete them successfully. The CIA suggests using rewards and punishments in a random, illogical manner so that the subjects regress into a childlike dependence. Similarly, the confused cult member will eventually regress to a childlike state and transfers parental authority to the cult leaders - which is why so many cult leaders insist on being called “Mother” or “Father.”

Titles like “President,” “Bishop,” and “Apostle” all imply these people are authority figures that should be obeyed.
10. Prescriptive Behavior
Like any victim of induced regression and transference, once their ability to make decisions have been suspended, the cult members look to their leaders for guidance on how to behave. They long for direction on what to think, do an believe.

11. The Goal of Inclusion
Once transference has been achieved, the elusive stated goal of the pyramid cult is replaced with the much more tangible one of establishing a relationship with the cult leaders and acceptance in the cult. The cult members become, in effect, siblings competing for their parent’s approval. The result is a prolonged psychodrama that capitalizes on unresolved issues from the members’ own family backgrounds. The cult leaders orchestrate emotional battles, pitting members against one another as they seek to develop a “special relationship” with the leaders.

12. Never Expose Uncertainty to Those Lower in the Pyramid
By the time a member is this far into a cult, he/she is required to preserve the illusion of its cohesion and perfection.

13. Never Expose Uncertainty to Those Higher in the Pyramid
Eventually, any expression of doubt at all is deemed offense against the cult. To spread one’s misgivings to a higher member is, in effect, a challenge to that member’s own resolve. Such expressions can be allowed up to a point, but ultimately the members must learn that they are the source of their won doubts and must overcome crisis without spreading confusion to others. Confessing one’s misgivings to a higher member merely affirms the latter’s superior status in the pyramid. If one is to move up, he/she must show less doubt and more commitment that those above him/her.

14. The Cult Precludes All Other Commitments
One by one, each member’s connection with the real world must be reinterpreted as base “attachments” that need to be limited or purged. The member’s original religion, job, friends, spouse and children are less important that his relationship with the cult and its leaders. The members must not gain positive reinforcement from anything or anyone outside of the cult. Family and social bonds are reinterpreted as distractions from the higher values the member is adopting. All real-world associating, inevitably and by design, come into conflict with one’s commitment to the higher goal.

15. Never Refuse a Request
A member may never refuse a request made by a cult leader, or in the name of the cult. To do so is to place some other value ahead of the sanctity of the group.

16. All Requests Can Be Challenged
A cult member who has made an inappropriately personal or self-interested request in the name of the cult will be challenged. On the other hand, members who are in the leader’s favor can get away with almost anything of those beneath them.

17. Never Take Action in the Cult Leaders’ Names
The cult leaders are free from all responsibility. To make a request in the cult leader’s name is to blame the cult leader for any ill will that might result. To claim, for example, that “I divorced my wife because the leader told me to” is to refuse responsibility for one’s own actions. Although a cult leader may have “shown the way,” a member divorces his wife or disowns his children because it’s the “right thing to do.” To use the leader as an excuse is just another way to express doubt.

18. Act Automatically
Members must strive to act in accordance with the cult leaders’ wishes without thinking. The conditioning, confusion, and fear to which the members are subjected result in a set of new behaviors that take the place of what normally might be called intuition or instinct. Once achieved, this automatic behavior is a welcome relief from the constant questioning of one’s own actions.

19. Witness and Accept the Leaders’ Faults
Once they reach the highest levels of the cult pyramid, members are privy to their leaders’ darkest actions. Members must also come to terms with the abusive behavior of their leaders.

20. The Cult Leaders Are Perfection
The final stage of cult indoctrination is to accept the leaders as the perfect center of the universe, from which all else derives. The “fully evolved” cult member thus understands all the pain and suffering as resistance to the cult leaders’ divinity. The leader is the single point of entry for God and perfection in the otherwise imperfect universe.

Once cult leaders have achieved such a stature in his followers’ minds, the leader can ask them to do anything, even to kill themselves. They already have been trained to go against their own instincts. Thwarting one’s natural tendency toward self-preservation becomes a pleasurable, almost fetishistic obsession. As members look for more outrageous ways to break their own attachment to life, suicide emerges as the ultimate act of devotion.