How 'Occupy Wall Street' Was Organized From Day One

Connections between The Working Family Party, SEIU, ACORN, The New Party, The DNC, Democratic Socialists of America, Tides, George Soros and The Obama Administration:

Patrick Gaspard, the current executive director of the DNC, former director of Obama's Office of Political Affairs, was an organizer for the New Party, the executive vice president of the SEIU Local 1199, political director for Bertha Lewis (the former president of ACORN) and a co-chair of the Working Families Party.

The New Party is a socialist political coalition co-founded in 1992 by academic and political activist Joel Rogers.

The first strategic meetings to plan the New Party were held in Joel Rogers' Madison, Wisconsin home; Wade Rathke, ACORN and SEIU founder and Gerry Hudson from Democratic Socialists of America and SEIU were in attendance at those meetings.

The New Party's influential Chicago chapter began to formed in January 1995. Its members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU and the Democratic Socialists of America. Obama attended a New Party function and received their endorsement in 1995.

In 1994, a New Party newspaper listed more than 100 activists "who are building the NP;" some names among the list of 100 were Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Wade Rathke, Cornel West, Jon Barton of SEIU, Maude Hurd of ACORN and Margaret Shelleda of SEIU.

Gerry Hudson, SEIU Executive Vice President and original New Party member, serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance organized by Joel Rogers' group COWS Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Alliance is a project of the Tides Center. Harry Reid credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to write the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

George Soros' Open Society Institute is a major source of money behind the Apollo Alliance and the Tides Foundation.

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SEIU laid out the plans for Occupy Wall Street Months ago, as the story first broke byTheBlaze.com.

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