Last month about one thousand people attended a national Tea Party convention in Tennessee. They heard from former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
SARAH PALIN: "The Tea Party movement is not a top-down operation. It is a ground-up call to action that is forcing both parties to change the way that they are doing business, and that is beautiful."
facebook.comThe Coffee Party USA page on Facebook
But conservatives are not the only ones organizing. Another new group has been growing through Facebook in reaction to the Tea Party. The Coffee Party Movement uses the slogan "Wake Up and Stand Up."
Its founder, Annabel Park, is a documentary film maker. She says the Coffee Party shares the Tea Party's unhappiness with Congress. But she says fixing the government does not have to mean making it the enemy.
Now the Tea Party and the Coffee Party can both pour their efforts into the congressional elections this November.
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English, written by Brianna Blake. I'm Steve Ember.
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