“Together We Thrive’ T-Shirts at the Tucson Memorial
by Tommy Christopher
Media ITE
Among attempts by some conservatives to cast last night’s “Together We Thrive” memorial for victims of the massacre in Tucson in a negative light were suggestions that the White House was involved in designing and distributing t-shirts at the event. While that notion has already been partially debunked, we looked into the rumors, and besides a frank denial from the White House, we’ve uncovered some relevant details about the shirts, which were, infact, distributed by the University of Arizona.
This type of smear is nothing new, and despite the apparent absurdity of the claim, I checked with the White House, anyway. A senior administration official confirmed the widely-reported fact that the administration had nothing to do with the shirts.
University of Arizona spokesperson Jennifer Fitzenberger told me that the shirts were, indeed, provided by the University. “The University wanted to give people something to remember that symbolized community spirit and continued the event’s positive energy into the future,” she said.
According to Fitzenberger, the shirts were designed by a University of Arizona student, and they cost about $60,000. “The University will pay for them,” she noted. “No tuition, state allocations, tax dollars or student fees will be used.”
Many have also wondered how the shirts were produced so quickly. According to Fitzenberger, “The UA BookStores made the arrangements to produce the shirts. The BookStores knew a vendor that could turn them around fast.”
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NOW CHECK THIS OUT!!!!…Clilck the link below and see it first hand, they still have it up.
White house denies having to do with it ….BULLCRAP! ~ Wild Thing
Organizing for America ….Obama’s website Dated February 2008
Together We Thrive
By John Berry IV – Feb 11, 2008 12:49:37 AM ET
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For too long Americans have been set one against the other, it is a side affect of a free market society. How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work done for the lowest possible costs. This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America. It has become a part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or todays migrant workers. As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.
What I see in Obama is a chance for a revolution. A chance for every group to participate and be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many. Together we can and will change the world and return America to the shining beacon of Hope and Prosperity that we were and that we can be again. Only when we work together do we accomplish feats that rival any ever accomplished in the history of mankind. Diversity is our strength, that is what this campaign brings us a promise of. For many this is a scary prospect and thought, getting to know someone different from myself. We all want the same basic things for example a safe place to live, health and a quality education for our kids.
In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation, I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied. Together we Thrive!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good grief……they even have a page at Facebook.
“Together We Thrive” (by ForwardForChange.com)
I clicked on the word Info and this is what it says about it.
A simple idea: Start speaking and acting in ways that bring us together rather than tear us apart. Bring our differing views to the table with unity as our core principle, and together we can create the building blocks to compromise. Move forward for positive change while leaving behind the extreme negativity and hate. We can accomplish this not only in our government but as a nation. It’s up to each and every one of us individually to move in a positive direction in our lives. Together We Thrive, indeed.
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They BUSSED IN La Raza people !!!!
While the Phoenix Public Library broadcast last night’s historic ‘Together We Thrive’ event, several members of Chicanos Unidos Arizona were bussed in from Phoenix
Phoenix Civil Rights Examiner
Chicanos Unidos Arizona members attend ‘Together We Thrive’ memorial
While the Phoenix Public Library broadcast last night’s historic ‘Together We Thrive’ event, several members of Chicanos Unidos Arizona were bussed in from Phoenix to Tuscan for the event and here are the reports:
Aldemar Suarez: “Last night’s event was historic. The unity was amazing, until Jan Brewer took the stage. Then, there were people booing. But when Barack Obama spoke, the audience listened. He is a true American hero.”
Cecilia Maldonano: “It might have seemed more like a pep rally than a memorial service, but there is a reason for that. Everybody was eager to celebrate the heroism that surrounded the event rather than the loss of life.”
George Gonzales: “I was escorted from the back of the hall to the front by security, who told me there were a few empty seats that needed to be filled. I sat pretty close to Daniel Hernandez and Michelle Obama. It was an evening I will never forget.”
Unfortunately, even though I am the president of Chicanos Unidos Arizona, I had to watch from the Phoenix Public Library. But I’m so happy my members were able to attend. What did you think of the memorial?
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Wild Thing’s comment………
Thank you Mark for the graphic at the top, this is so perfect for what they did.
A friend of mine wrote me that the city buses also were displaying the Together We Thrive slogan on their destination signs on Wednesday.
Those tees and the slogan were incredibly distasteful, inappropriate, and tacky for what should have been a very somber occasion. We are witnessing subliminal propaganda all the time by the present Obama and his administration. The “Together We Thrive” campaign memorialization theme will erase “America and Tucson” and start using other implications, so that everything runs together.
Everything here is visual and uses the absence of information, a la the stonewalling of DOJ on the Hasan shooter case, lack of the count of dead daily in Iraq or Afghanistan, questioning of government officials before Congress, or the bringing of charges against the Black Panthers, as evidence. This is also the Birth Certificate issue all over again, by virtue of the fact that its lack of release is being used to advance an agenda as though the agenda is legitimate.
If we do not hear or see opposition, it will not exist. If we remove the ability to speak opposition, it will not exist. If we do not learn what opposition is, it will not exist. It is the absence of these things that highlights what this agenda really is.
Welcome to the ‘new’ civility. Hush now, and remember to “do as you’re told.” All you need to know will be done in darkness ahead of time; you have no clearance except what the ‘we’ in ‘yes we can’ decides what you ‘need to know.’
“If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, is it not possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing about it? The recent practice of propaganda has proved that it is possible, at least up to a certain point and within certain limits.” by -Edward Bernays
“The Engineering of Consent” is an essay by Edward Bernays first published in 1947. He defines “engineering consent” as the art of manipulating people; specifically, the American public, who are described as “fundamentally irrational people… who could not be trusted.”
I think we should all look for word “Thrive” in the next election cycle.
The article about this is all bullshit. When the president is speaking at any venue, NOTHING happens without express permission of the White House. This doesn’t just go for this administration, but every administration in the modern era has operated under those same terms. No one drapes shirts over the back of chairs at a venue that is hosting the President, without someone on the President’s advance staff giving their OK.
I don’t care who paid for them, or whose idea they originally were. They were distributed with the approval of the White House. Also, it’s disingenuous for any reporter who has worked in the WH press pool to pretend otherwise. You can’t be around the WH media machine and NOT realize that the WH controls – entirely – the optics of any presidential visit.
If you can get a Catholic university to remove it’s seal that bears the cross, you can certainly keep some college kids from distributing tee-shirts.
….Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
The Democrats lust for absolute power has no limits. Any method to get that power will be used, even if it is illegal, unethical or crass. The lack of solid morals is sickening.
This is communism straight up. There’s no getting around this. They have gotten much bolder in this respect too. CPUSA is coming out of the woodwork, like cocaroaches in a dark kitchen and helping to cut down our country to what they see as some perverted utopia.
Now Francis Fox Piven, the nut case from Cloward and Piven is saying the Tea Party is all about Sex, I guess that’s her way to discredit it.
Now Boehner is taking heat because he wouldn’t fly to AZ with Barry, because he had prior engagements. Well first, whether they like it or not Boehner is 3rd in line on the ascendency list to the Presidency, Joe ‘Bite-me’ is in Afghanistan, obama should know this but is as ususal unconscious.
So why should he be part of obama’s Dog and Pony show.
Never let a crisis go to waste! –Alinsky, Rahmbo, Lennin, etc.
Something tells me we’re gonna need to hire extra hangmen when the time comes. Also good carpenters to construct gallows platforms that will accomodate 50 politicians at a time.
You all are so awesome, thank you so much.