On 6/26/16, Carl Jarvis <carjar82@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Are there really Progressives and Radicals out here who thought the
DNC would back any of Bernie Sander's platform planks? Hey! Have I
got some cool swamp land for you!
The news makes it sound as if the Progressive proposals were betrayed.
Forget that. You are only betrayed if you really believed the other
guys babble. The DNC never had the Working Class' interest at heart.
Never! Get over the idea that we Working Class Folk have a dog in
this fight. It is the Right head of the Monster fighting the Left
head of the Monster. Big money has taken over. We cannot "reform"
something that we have no stake in. The System is broke, as far as
the Working Class is concerned. But it is doing just fine and dandy,
as far as the First Class Corporate Citizens of the American Corporate
Empire are concerned. It's high time...in fact far past time, for the
sleeping giant to stir and slap the pesky Corporate Drones. Can we
shake off the slick, fast talking corporate shills and take our
rightful place as first class Americans?
Carl Jarvis
On 6/26/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel
Occupation
Published on
Saturday, June 25, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel
Occupation
Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous
proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates
by
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
Members of the Democratic party Platform Committee, including (from left
to
right) American Federation of State, County, and Muncipal Employees
executive assistant to the president, Paul Booth, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison
(D-Minn.), former White House Energy and Climate Change Policy director
Carol Browner, and Palestinian rights academic James Zogby. (Photo: DNCC)
Despite its claims to want to unify voters ahead of November's election,
the
Democratic party appears to be pushing for an agenda that critics say
ignores basic progressive policies, "staying true" to their Corporate
donors
above all else.
During a 9-hour meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday, members of the
DNC's platform drafting committee voted down a number of measures
proposed
by Bernie Sanders surrogates that would have come out against the
contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), fracking, and the Israeli
occupation of Palestine. At the same time, proposals to support a carbon
tax, Single Payer healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage tied to inflation
were
also disregarded.
In a statement, Sanders said he was "disappointed and dismayed" that
representatives of Hillary Clinton and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman
Schulz rejected the proposal on trade put forth by Sanders appointee Rep.
Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), despite the fact that the presumed nominee has
herself come out against the 12-nation deal.
"Inexplicable" was how Sanders described the move, adding: "It is hard
for
me to understand why Secretary Clinton's delegates won't stand behind
Secretary Clinton's positions in the party's platform."
The panel also rejected amendments suggested by 350.org co-founder Bill
McKibben, another Sanders pick, that would have imposed a carbon tax,
declared a national moratorium on fracking as well as new fossil fuel
drilling leases on federal lands and waters.
"This is not a political problem of the sort that we are used to dealing
with," McKibben stated during the marathon debate. "Most political
problems
yield well to the formula that we've kept adopting on thing after
thing-compromise, we'll go halfway, we'll get part of this done. That's
because most political problems are really between different groups of
people. They're between industry and environmentalists. That is not the
case
here."
"Former U.S. Representative Howard Berman, American Federation of State,
County, and Muncipal Employees executive assistant to the president, Paul
Booth, former White House Energy and Climate Change Policy director Carol
Browner, Ohio State Representative Alicia Reece, former State Department
official Wendy Sherman, and Center for American Progress President Neera
Tanden all raised their hands to prevent a moratorium from becoming a
part
of the platform," noted Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola.
According to Gosztola's reporting on the exchange, Dr. Cornel West
lambasted
the aforementioned panel members, particularly Browner, for "endorsing
reform incrementalism" in the face of an urgent planetary crisis.
"When you're on the edge of the abyss or when you're on that stove, to
use
the language of Malcolm X, you don't use the language of incrementalism.
It
hurts, and the species is hurting," West said.
Other progressive policies were adopted piecemeal, such as the $15
minimum
wage, which the committee accepted but without the amendment put forth by
Ellison that would have indexed the wage to inflation.
The panel did vote unanimously to back a proposal to abolish the death
penalty and adopted language calling for breaking up too-big-to-fail
banks
and enacting a modern-day Glass-Steagall Act-measures that Sanders said
he
was "pleased" about.
According to AP, the final discussion "centered on the Israel-Palestinian
conflict."
"The committee defeated an amendment by Sanders supporter James Zogby
that
would have called for providing Palestinians with 'an end to occupation
and
illegal settlements' and urged an international effort to rebuild Gaza,"
AP
reports, measures which Zogby said Sanders helped craft.
Instead, AP reports, the adopted draft "advocates working toward a
'two-state solution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict' that guarantees
Israel's security with recognized borders 'and provides the Palestinians
with independence, sovereignty, and dignity.'"
Citing these "moral failures" of the platform draft, West abstained
during
the final vote to send the document to review by the full Platform
Committee
next month in Orlando, Florida.
"If we can't say a word about TPP, if we can't talk about
Medicare-for-All
explicitly, if the greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending
ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can't even
acknowledge occupation... it seems there is no way in good conscience I
can
say, 'Take it to the next stage,'" West declared before the assembly.
"I wasn't raised like that," he said. "I have to abstain. I have no other
moral option, it would be a violation of my own limited sense of moral
integrity and spiritual conscience," adding, "That's how I roll."
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Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel
Occupation
Published on
Saturday, June 25, 2016
by
Common Dreams
Betraying Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israel
Occupation
Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous
proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates
by
Lauren McCauley, staff writer
. 249 Comments
.
. Members of the Democratic party Platform Committee, including (from
left to right) American Federation of State, County, and Muncipal
Employees
executive assistant to the president, Paul Booth, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison
(D-Minn.), former White House Energy and Climate Change Policy director
Carol Browner, and Palestinian rights academic James Zogby. (Photo: DNCC)
. Despite its claims to want to unify voters ahead of November's
election, the Democratic party appears to be pushing for an agenda that
critics say ignores basic progressive policies, "staying true" to their
Corporate donors above all else.
. During a 9-hour meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday, members of
the DNC's platform drafting committee voted down a number of measures
proposed by Bernie Sanders surrogates that would have come out against
the
contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), fracking, and the Israeli
occupation of Palestine. At the same time, proposals to support a carbon
tax, Single Payer healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage tied to inflation
were
also disregarded.
. In a statement, Sanders said he was "disappointed and dismayed" that
representatives of Hillary Clinton and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman
Schulz rejected the proposal on trade put forth by Sanders appointee Rep.
Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), despite the fact that the presumed nominee has
herself come out against the 12-nation deal.
.
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ue.com/contribute/page/myj16-article
"Inexplicable" was how Sanders described the move, adding: "It is hard
for
me to understand why Secretary Clinton's delegates won't stand behind
Secretary Clinton's positions in the party's platform."
The panel also rejected amendments suggested by 350.org co-founder Bill
McKibben, another Sanders pick, that would have imposed a carbon tax,
declared a national moratorium on fracking as well as new fossil fuel
drilling leases on federal lands and waters.
"This is not a political problem of the sort that we are used to dealing
with," McKibben stated during the marathon debate. "Most political
problems
yield well to the formula that we've kept adopting on thing after
thing-compromise, we'll go halfway, we'll get part of this done. That's
because most political problems are really between different groups of
people. They're between industry and environmentalists. That is not the
case
here."
"Former U.S. Representative Howard Berman, American Federation of State,
County, and Muncipal Employees executive assistant to the president, Paul
Booth, former White House Energy and Climate Change Policy director Carol
Browner, Ohio State Representative Alicia Reece, former State Department
official Wendy Sherman, and Center for American Progress President Neera
Tanden all raised their hands to prevent a moratorium from becoming a
part
of the platform," noted Shadowproof's Kevin Gosztola.
According to Gosztola's reporting on the exchange, Dr. Cornel West
lambasted
the aforementioned panel members, particularly Browner, for "endorsing
reform incrementalism" in the face of an urgent planetary crisis.
"When you're on the edge of the abyss or when you're on that stove, to
use
the language of Malcolm X, you don't use the language of incrementalism.
It
hurts, and the species is hurting," West said.
Other progressive policies were adopted piecemeal, such as the $15
minimum
wage, which the committee accepted but without the amendment put forth by
Ellison that would have indexed the wage to inflation.
The panel did vote unanimously to back a proposal to abolish the death
penalty and adopted language calling for breaking up too-big-to-fail
banks
and enacting a modern-day Glass-Steagall Act-measures that Sanders said
he
was "pleased" about.
According to AP, the final discussion "centered on the Israel-Palestinian
conflict."
"The committee defeated an amendment by Sanders supporter James Zogby
that
would have called for providing Palestinians with 'an end to occupation
and
illegal settlements' and urged an international effort to rebuild Gaza,"
AP
reports, measures which Zogby said Sanders helped craft.
Instead, AP reports, the adopted draft "advocates working toward a
'two-state solution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict' that guarantees
Israel's security with recognized borders 'and provides the Palestinians
with independence, sovereignty, and dignity.'"
Citing these "moral failures" of the platform draft, West abstained
during
the final vote to send the document to review by the full Platform
Committee
next month in Orlando, Florida.
"If we can't say a word about TPP, if we can't talk about
Medicare-for-All
explicitly, if the greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending
ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can't even
acknowledge occupation... it seems there is no way in good conscience I
can
say, 'Take it to the next stage,'" West declared before the assembly.
"I wasn't raised like that," he said. "I have to abstain. I have no other
moral option, it would be a violation of my own limited sense of moral
integrity and spiritual conscience," adding, "That's how I roll."
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
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