Posted on 10/10/2011 3:28:15 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
Two prominent members of the Communist Party USA are leading the growing “Occupy Los Angeles” movement.
Occupy Los Angeles in action
Further, the Communist Party is deliberately infiltrating the “Occupy” movement in other parts of the country, to ensure that revolutionary forces gain as much control as possible.
The two Southern California communists at the heart of Occupy Los Angeles movement are veteran party leader Arturo Cambron and his comrade, Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council member Mario Brito.
Arturo Cambron
Arturo Cambron is a long time Party member and is the husband of Rossana Cambron, the Party’s Southern California coordinator. He is the president of the Party run Los Angeles Workers’ Center, situated in South Saint Andrews Place, which essentially serves as the Communist Party HQ for the area.
Cambron is active in the Occupy Los Angeles protests and has acted as a moderator for the organization’s nightly core group meetings.
Mario Brito
Mario Brito is Labor Relations Rep. and Community Outreach organizer for the Laborers Union and a long time Communist Party supporter. In January 2003, Brito attended a meeting of the National Board of the Communist Party USA in South Chicago. He has also been a supporter of the Party front Latinos for Peace and active in the immigrant “rights” movement.
Mario Brito, is Occupy Los Angeles city liaison, tasked with dealing with the police and City officials. In a city lead by long time Communist Party affiliate, mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, this is probably not too difficult a job. Brito has also moderated at least one Occupy Los Angeles core croup meeting.
Earlier in October, Mario Brito summed up the occupation cause’s raison d’etre as “economic justice,” and told fellow Communist Party supporter Ed Rampell of Back Page Magazine: “This is an international movement – it’s not only happening in Wall Street, it’s happening in 170 cities in the U.S., and cities in Europe and Latin America.” Brito asserted: “The vast majority of Americans actually believe income inequality is a major problem. They only reason they haven’t acted upon it is because there hasn’t been a mass movement.”
Demonstrators in Los Angeles camped out in front of City Hall and said they would remain camped at the site ‘indefinitely.’ ” We have no time limit, this camp will remain until we achieve what we want: the population’s right to employment, education and health services; immigrants’ right to employment and no companies influence on politics,” Mario Brito declared.
The group also decided to work with the Los Angeles Police Department to obtain permits and cooperation, hoping to avoid altercations with police. “If we have an adversarial relationship with the cops, it’s not going to work,” said Brito, moderator of a September 25 meeting.
On September 26, Occupy Los Angeles made an appearance in West Hollywood for President Barack Obama’s fundraising visit. The plan was not to embarrass the Party’s long time “friend,” the President, but to reach out to other activist groups, to build the movement.
After a sometimes frustrating organizing process that is filled with many diverse points of view, Bitro said protesters are unified. “We agree on one thing, that the economic inequalities in this country have to stop,” he said. “We have to fight back on this issue. We have to hold corporate America responsible, and the politicians that support them.”
On Tuesday, October 11, 2011 8 pm, the Communist Party USA held a national teleconference to discuss the “Occupy Movement,” which the Party noted had already spread to more than 200 other cities. Arturo Cambron, “of the Communist Party and the Occupy L.A. Movement,” was the key speaker on the call. Wrote Illinois Party leader John Bachtell on the CPUSA website:
Southern California Party leader Arturo Cambron will share how the CPUSA and Young Communist League (YCL) are working in “Occupy Los Angeles.” This movement, also known as the “99% movement,” is being hailed across the country. Movements and organizations are reaching out in solidarity. The AFL-CIO is opening union halls and offering other material assistance. Ordinary people are donating food, money and materials.
A big challenge for the CPUSA and left, progressive movements is to link these demonstrations with the labor led all-people’s coalition and help deepen understanding that the path to progress must be through electoral and political action including defeating Republican Tea Party reaction in 2012. Of primary importance is linking it with the burgeoning fight for jobs and especially passage of the American Jobs Act.
We can also play a role in offering more advanced programmatic ideas like nationalizing the banks and socialism. To have a positive impact, the CPUSA and YCL must be a part of the “Occupy” movement, participating at every level and building greater local support for the actions among labor and progressive forces.
Doing its bit, the Southern California chapter of the Young Communist League has already produced a video in support of the “Occupy” movement.
Unlike the anarchists and lunatic leftists, who run the “Occupy” movement in most cities, the Communist Party USA is disciplined and highly focused on returning Barack Obama and the Democrats to complete power in 2012.
They will never allow the “Occupy” movement to become a threat to that goal. They will make sure that the movement becomes a vehicle for their demands and a weapon against what’s left of US capitalism and any force which legitimately threatens the re-election of their comrade President. .
“The DOJ probably doesn’t even investigate communists anymore..”
Did you forget the sarcasm tag?
Ha! Why would they? To find one all they’d have to do is look in the office at the end of the hall, or walk down the street to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
From a comment on:
http://theulstermanreport.com/2011/10/09/wall-street-insider-obama-2012-re-election-not-an-option/
Jen Gelman
October 10, 2011 at 11:36 am
A headless snake. Anarchists have no direction, no leadership and inevitably they are ALWAYS taken over by a group that does. And these protests came about at the direction of SEIU, moveo,org, and all their Soros funded affiliates. I am on their mailing lists, and I got the call to protest from all of them at the same time, two weeks before it actually happened. It is no coincidence that protest demonstrations are always populated by young, disaffected, shiftless, unemployed alternative lifestyle dope smoking zombies. They are ignorant, narcissistic and gullible, perfect useful idiots to be manipulated for any purpose.
I’ll never forget that horrible night.
This is where Breitbart and others come in. He and other “bloggers” serve as collecting points for input by citizen journalists who capture the craziness on video. Lord knows the MSM is trying to make the occupiers out to be Mother Therese At Valley Forge. If we don’t film it, it will never be seen.
42 is brilliant on several levels.
Thanks for the ping.
They might succeed with violence in France - the French have that tradition. We don't. Hopefully, Americans will come the the conclusion that on any given week, MORE people show up for High School Football... These people are NOT occupying cities - it's at best a few hundred people - many paid professionals...not as many as show up for kid's sports.
Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner Fred. Yes, I found it very interesting. It is very scary what is going on in our country. I pray that the sane people will be able to take it back in 2012.
If I were an anarchist I’d be getting awfully tee’d off that Communists were trying to steal my movement! (Yes, I do know they’re ALL communists/socialists and not REALLY anarchists to begin with...).
Thanks for the link to the 53% tumblr site. I’ve shared it on FB.
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