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https://peoplesparty.org/the-peoples-convention/The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,573 posts)still_one
(92,060 posts)Party?
lapucelle
(18,186 posts)snip=======================================================
https://peoplesparty.org/faq/#other-parties
still_one
(92,060 posts)Demsrule86
(68,455 posts)Bev54
(10,037 posts)win congress and the WH in 2024. Good luck to them, can't say they don't think big. Can't stand either one of them
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George II
(67,782 posts)August 7, 2020
Detroit, MI One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Bernie 2020 National Co-Chair Sen. Nina Turner and Bernie 2020 surrogate Dr. Cornel West will join the Movement for a Peoples Party to headline The Peoples Convention. Turner will deliver a speech titled: Choice, Challenge and Change: The Necessity of a Peoples Movement.
On Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm EST, thousands of Americans from all walks of life will gather to discuss the state of the nation at The Peoples Convention. At the conclusion, participants will vote on forming a major new political party free of corporate money and influence.
The Convention will be digital and broadcast live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with well over a million followers, including The Jimmy Dore Show which will carry the convention to its nearly 800,000 subscribers on YouTube.
The convention will ask: What kind of world do we want to build from the devastation of the pandemic and economic depression?
It will feature speakers and a regional breakout session. There will be montages of the short, heartfelt videos recorded by hundreds of MPPs 80,000 members across the country. Speakers will discuss plans to become the largest party in America in four years, including building local hubs and state parties, sending representatives to Congress in 2022, and winning the presidency in 2024.
Sen. Turner is the host of the Hello Somebody Podcast and former president of Our Revolution. She is a former Ohio State Senator and professor of African American history. Dr. Cornel West is the Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of 20 books, a frequent commentator on CNN, and co-host of the Tight Rope Podcast.
It looks as if the system cannot reform itself, said West of the American political and economic system on CNN in May. Yes we must vote the neofascist catastrophe out of the White House but the neoliberal disaster who enters the White House must be fought with a peoples movement and party, he said, accepting the invitation to The Peoples Convention.
Turner and West will be joined by political commentator Jimmy Dore, host of The Jimmy Dore Show and Comedy Central specials, and Ryan Knight, activist, Medicare for all advocate and host of the podcast Amped Up.
Also in attendance will be fellow Bernie 2020 leaders, including climate scientist and campaign surrogate Dr. Peter Kalmus. Climate and ecological breakdown is a planetary emergency, but corporate influence over both parties has blocked action for decades. We need a party free from corporate corruption a peoples party, said Kalmus.
Former Bernie 2020 volunteer national high school director, and national coordinator with Students for a Peoples Party, Amaya Wangeshi, will speak. There is no more compromise, there is no more reform, we have to stop waiting. People are dying right now, people are facing injustice right now; I dont believe in sacrificing millions of lives just so you can play politics, said Wangeshi of the corporate parties. The 16-year old daughter of Kenyan immigrants is also the founder of Beyond Bernie and founding director of Our Time, Our Revolutions student organization. The world better get ready, change is coming, and its coming like youve never seen it before.
Omar Fernandez, President of the American Postal Workers Union of Vermont, which has endorsed MPP, will speak about the labor movements need for a party for working people. Jerry Perez, field director with Our Revolution Los Angeles and a U.S. Marine who was deployed to the Iraq and Afghan wars will speak on behalf of Veterans for a Peoples Party. Cuban-American Eynelys Vinson, the vice-chair of Our Revolution Los Angeles, will share how Democrats block progress even when they have full control of government, and why Latinos need a party that speaks for them.
The Peoples Convention comes as more than 700 National Sanders Delegates have drawn the line with the Democratic Party, stating that they will vote against the party platform unless it includes Medicare for all. It also arrives as the DNC Rules Committee overwhelmingly voted to allow the party to accept corporate PAC money and permit corporate lobbyists to sit on the DNC.
The Convention also takes place in the middle of a raging pandemic and unprecedented cascading economic collapse. Two avoidable catastrophes that the Democrats and Republicans knowingly chose when they spent trillions of dollars bailing out Wall Street while giving insufficient relief to the tens of millions who lost their jobs.
As a result, child hunger is at record levels, breadlines are overwhelmed, five million people have lost their employer-based health insurance, and up to 28 million people face eviction. Forty percent of small businesses may close forever and 42 percent of jobs may never return. Conditions that were just made dramatically worse because Congress let expanded unemployment insurance benefits and an evictions moratorium on federally-backed properties expire.
Four years from now, at the Peoples Convention of 2024, when The Peoples Party stands poised to win Congress and the White House, we will look back and celebrate this gathering as the moment that our nation turned the page on the Second Gilded Age. The moment that we took fate into our own hands. The moment that we gave rise to a new progressive era, said Nick Brana, national coordinator with the Movement for a Peoples Party. Brana was the national political outreach coordinator with Bernie 2016 and a founding staffer and former electoral manager with Our Revolution.
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Can't believe they're blaming DEMOCRATS along with republicans for the pandemic, too.
More:
Link to tweet
On their Agenda is creating a new party, so as of August 30 they are NO LONGER DEMOCRATS:
The Peoples Convention will discuss plans to build the largest party in America in the next four years, including building local hubs and state parties, sending representatives to Congress and local office in 2022, and winning the presidency in 2024. We will discuss why we must finish the political revolution in a major new peoples party and how we can do it.
The Convention will feature live speakers, recorded video montages and presentations, and a regional organizing breakout session.
We will broadcast video compilations of hundreds of people across the country sharing why they need a peoples party and how they are organizing to bring it to life.
At the conclusion of the Convention we will hold a historic vote on forming a major new corporate-free political party in America
Four years from now, at the Peoples Convention of 2024, when The Peoples Party stands poised to sweep Congress and the White House, we will look back and celebrate this gathering as the moment that our country turned the page on the Second Gilded Age. The moment that we took fate into our own hands. The moment that we gave rise to a new progressive era.
bluedye33139
(1,474 posts)The theory was always that by tearing America to shreds, a revolution would occur and would lift these fringe activists power. It seems somewhat illogical for them to complain about conditions that they worked so hard to bring about.
I'm pretty comfortable with progressive policy ideas, but I really think that attacking the Democratic Party is more important to these activists than promoting progressive values.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)They keep saying that the current system is broken (and fair point, there's some truth to it) and that it just needs to be completely torn down and rebuilt root and branch, but they offer no roadmap to how this is actually done because they don't view actual political power to effect change as legitimate or available, so they just keep talking about "revolution", which to them mostly meaning to protest but also refuse to vote for the one progressive party in the country that has existed and can actually win major elections. No Democratic politician is ever good enough or pure enough for them, so they just take their balls and go home and then when Republicans win at the end of the day, they just tut-tut blame Democrats for nominating the "wrong" candidate(s). I don't get it.
Ex Lurker
(3,811 posts)The revolution will just happen organically. Nevermind that it has never once done so in history.
betsuni
(25,367 posts)that if the people just heard the message of economic equality (because Democrats have never mentioned it before or tried to do anything about it (LOL)), people will flock to protest and the revolution begins. Protesting in Kentucky will make Mitch McConnell suddenly do his job. Republican voters are just economically frustrated and when they hear The Message they will come around and vote in their economic interests.
Then some public figures blathered on about how the establishment and media and billionaires will stop at nothing to defeat them -- as they're on TV all the time repeating a laundry list of America's problems and ignoring the real causes -- easier to blame Democrats, act as if it was the 1930s when Democrats had the presidency, large majorities in the legislature, and a Republican Party still sane and able to be bipartisan. Acting as if Democrats could do something but they choose not to: "Why didn't/don't Democrats stop ____ ?" Taking small differences between policies and making it about morals and personality while insisting it's all about policy. Thinking universal health care means one particular politicians's policy and nothing else is, nobody thought of it before. It's nutty. People who encouraged this cynical and ignorant worldview should be ashamed of themselves.
still_one
(92,060 posts)lapucelle
(18,186 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Last edited Sat Aug 8, 2020, 06:32 PM - Edit history (2)
....there won't be any Super Delegates voting this year.
They only vote after the first ballot, but there will be only one ballot.
LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)lapucelle
(18,186 posts)After decades of relentless work at local, state, and national levels, its abundantly clear there is no internal mechanism for real change. In fact, the opposite is true. Enormous power comes to bear to prevent democratic change. The billionaires want their people
https://peoplesparty.org/faq/#democratic-reform
Has Superdelegate SenatorNinaTurner resigned from her membership in the DNC yet, or is she waiting to cast her superdelegate vote first?
still_one
(92,060 posts)trueblue2007
(17,187 posts)KG
(28,751 posts)Trumpocalypse
(6,143 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Best paying gig either one could have dreamed of getting!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)It's easy to find people to run against but nothing seems to inspire their anger and hatred more than the Democratic Party
BlueTsunami2018
(3,480 posts)But hes the most overeducated idiot there is. Either that or hes just evil. I cant stand him anymore.
still_one
(92,060 posts)me against him was the outrageous racial slurs he used against President Obama
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)crazy.
Raine
(30,540 posts)West went way beyond that, his eyes were crazy, he looked insane, spit was coming from his mouth. If they'd been in the same studio I swear West would've physically attacked Tyrell, he was actually scary. West really showed an ugly side of himself, ugh I can't stand the sight of him.
ancianita
(35,926 posts)He's not even got Sesame Street smarts.
DinahMoeHum
(21,771 posts)#newrostrong
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)I'd rather they are true to self and operate outside the Democratic Party than their recent forays into Democratic Party politics.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)Instead of trying to stand on their own merits and build their own party, they would rather attempt to assimilate the Democratic Party for their own purposes and then get mad and attack the Democratic Party when the Democratic Party doesn't do what they want them to do.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)they aren't. But again, there is nothing wrong with starting a new party. If they can get people behind them, more power to them. If not, then they will simply place themselves outside the power structure.
Me.
(35,454 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....to become a millionaire merely by running for president.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Hekate
(90,527 posts)betsuni
(25,367 posts)Their whole thing is being anti-establishment, the establishment being the Democratic Party.
GeorgiaPeanut
(360 posts)and so are many of the Democrats
Watch for the "squad" - two of its members have refused to endorse Joe Biden.
Many supporters of the main candidate who lost are not very enthusiastic either.
Initech
(100,028 posts)qwlauren35
(6,145 posts)that they will work to get Trump out of office in November.
To do that, they would have to vote for Biden.
LiberalFighter
(50,767 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)I could give a shit.
They make their living try to get media attention. Ignore them.
brooklynite
(94,299 posts)...with no ballot access.
ecstatic
(32,641 posts)They were able to excuse away their behavior in 2016, but now?! With everything on the line, including our lives? At least 32,000 black people have died from covid-19 over the past few months, ffs!
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)still_one
(92,060 posts)The way he was rambling he sounded out of it, however, he actually said he would be voting for Biden/Harris this time in between his rambling
At the same time he was saying he part of a new political party that would go against the Democratic Party
He was kind of unhinged in that Anderson Cooper interview in my opinion.
Whether Turner is a Superdelegate or not, after her disgusting and disgraceful comments about voting for Biden, there is no way she is going to be given any airtime at the Democratic Convention, and has destroyed any standing within the Democratic party. Just as well that she is going off to a third party, because she is finished in the Democratic party