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Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumStill Berning (vpro backlight documentary)
Published on Nov 6, 2016
Bernie Sanders lost the primaries to nominate a US presidential candidate for the Democratic Party to Hillary Clinton. But it was a glorious loss. And it has become a beginning, not an end. The end of the Bernie Sanders campaign marks the start of a political movement. What are the next steps for this movement and what role will it play in future elections? What is its staying power? And how can a new political generation bring democracy back into the hands of the people and make it truly representative?
Bernies campaign made history by receiving a record number of donations from individual citizens, not Wall Street. For the future this could dramatically reduce the enormous power that corporations, banks and Super PACS currently have in American politics. New technology, apps and software have the potential to make campaigning more accessible and affordable to a much wider variety of people and a new kind of political candidates. Bernies urgent campaign message about income inequality and the economy of the 99% has galvanised this new movement into action beyond the primaries, at a time when many people of the Millennial generation and in the middle class find themselves squeezed in a post-crisis economic reality.
With: Jane OMeara Sanders (partner, Bernies closest political adviser and founder of Our Revolution), Arun Chaudhary (creative director for Bernies online campaign and partner at digital agency Revolution Messaging), Zephyr Teachout (candidate for the US House of Representative in New Yorks 19th congressional district), Saikat Chakrabarti (director digital organising technology for Bernie 2016 and one of the founders of Brand New Congress) and Josh Smith, Rapi Castillo & Jon Culver (Progressive Coders/Coders for Sanders).
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Still Berning (vpro backlight documentary) (Original Post)
Donkees
Nov 2016
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murielm99
(30,745 posts)1. Our nominee's name is Hillary Clinton.
Get over it and go vote for her tomorrow.
LWolf
(46,179 posts)3. Like the guy at the end,
I shed tears when that song, and that ad, came on. This was a great way to spend time, and gives me some hope.
dae
(3,396 posts)5. You are better than Google.