Qs re holding an optimal TED-talk-based group discussion

(I'm asking, because I don't think I know.)

The Tea Party and the Founding Fathers

This essay was written by UNA-NC member Vicki Warner earlier this month. It's crossposted at Sierra Voices; comment there please.

The rise of a grass-roots protest organization calling itself the Tea Party has aroused my curiosity. The name reminds me of the story every child used to learn in elementary school, along with the Pilgrims and George Washington and the cherry tree – the story of the famous Boston Tea Party in 1773, when American colonists threw chests of tea off of British ships into the sea to protest the high British tax on the tea, leading to the famous slogan "No taxation without representaton." Although the colonies did have a representative in London, Benjamin Franklin, he had no role in British decision-making.