Seizing Chance, Sanders Makes Bold Progressive Picks to Shape DNC Platform
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Source: CommonDreams by Lauren McCauley, Staff Writer
Seizing on the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) reluctant concession allowing him to appoint five members to the committee that writes the party platform, Bernie Sanders on Monday announced a suite of picks that included activists across the progressive sphere.
Sanders' appointees to the 15-member Platform Drafting Committee include: racial justice activist and scholar Dr. Cornel West, 350.org co-founder and noted environmentalist Bill McKibben, Native American activist Deborah Parker, Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), and James Zogby, a pro-Palestinian scholar as well as founder and president of the Arab American Institute (AAI).
The announcement came roughly two weeks after Sanders sent a letter to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) accusing her of stacking the party's three standing committees, including the drafting committee, with "Clinton loyalists."
According to the Washington Post, party officials and the two Democratic candidates "worked out" a compromise "based on the number of popular votes each has received to date." Under the agreement, frontrunner Hillary Clinton would be allotted six members and Sanders five, while Wasserman Schultz will name four.
Read more: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/23/seizing-chance-sanders-makes-bold-progressive-picks-shape-dnc-platform
This is soooooo not important.
villager
(26,001 posts)DURHAM D
(32,617 posts)The excitement around this has been cracking me up all day so decided to comment on the silliness
villager
(26,001 posts)...so that others can see the "non-excitement" unfold in real time...!
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)They won't be hard to come by after that.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)There is nothing substantial about naming a prominent Native American activist, prominent Muslim congressman, prominent social justice activist and prominent pro Palestinian scholar to the committee drafting the Democratic Party platform, nothing substantial at all....
Please proceed Hillary supporters...
villager
(26,001 posts)For others, it matters quite a bit.
Beartracks
(12,835 posts)Remember when EVERYONE at DU would have been excited for such influence on the party platform? It doesn't seem that long ago...
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Beartracks
(12,835 posts)Because party platforms can be so easily ignored by a President who really isn't all that into parts of it anyway.
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kayakjohnny
(5,235 posts)And I like you just as well.
Cheers!
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)What he said was absolute truth.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)It's just gotten to Ministry of Truth levels.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)"if elected Hillary will enact a conservative agenda regardless of the party platform, which is 99% guaranteed anyway. And we also know that the hillarians don't want liberals in the party any more, so this news is just an aggravation to them. But I for one am glad that there is a tiny spark of populism left in the party."
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)Everything else would have been OK except he starts with calling names.
I'm a Bernie supporter and will Never vote for Hillary..ever. But if I had been on the jury, I would of reminded the poster no name calling. I agree with you that Bernie voters around here are more likely to get their comments hidden and banned then Hillary supporters. But the rules clearly do not allow name calling.
I had a Hillary supporter call me stupid and other insults. Then, because I said if the Hillary supporter did not stop calling me names I would alert on the post. I had my comment hidden while the Hillary supporter who had made all the insults to me did not get her comments hidden. Then I was banned from the Hillary site and had another post hidden (dealing with the same issue of being called names by Hillary supporters), I was kicked off of DU. For months, I staid away and then I came back to find that Hillary supporters where crawling all over DU and disrupting everything.
But I still think if you are on a jury, you should be as impartial as you can. Name calling and F bombs should not be used on this site. It's in the rules and even Hillary supporters should be required to follow the rules.
OK, sorry about the rant. I guess it still bothers me that after 12 years of only having 1 or 2 comments hidden, I get banned from DU.
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)Jury let it stand. And that was BEFORE the primary started.
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Yep!
When the Democratic Party was one of inclusiveness... of re-building America's middle class, of recognizing native American's and PoC's long-past due respect of community building, and creating a sustainable world.
tazkcmo
(7,304 posts)The second he declared all that changed. How dare he challenge The Queen.
SouthernDemLinda
(182 posts)Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped."
Robert F. Kennedy
I remember RFK,and Hillary is no RFK!
We need (not a few) but a lot more like Sanders, who is more like RFK than anyone!
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)With DWS and Hillary.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)MisterFred
(525 posts)But the past is the past. Let's move forward.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)By the ruling 10 representatives.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Nice to know where you stand.
rpannier
(24,350 posts)Now it will be around longer for people to see the supposed non-event
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)on the Sanders team.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Elijah Cummings and Paul Booth. Nice progressive lineup.
mountain grammy
(26,665 posts)bhikkhu
(10,726 posts)...hoping for the best platform to work into the general election, and a solid rout of the non-progressive side. I still imagine people's final choices consider the issues and not personalities, however much the media ignores the isssues.
lostnfound
(16,195 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)the "non-excitement".
ms liberty
(8,622 posts)Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)And rec
msongs
(67,493 posts)wisteria
(19,581 posts)Yesh, this group will be able to promote his policies-not.
LisaM
(27,850 posts)Keith Ellison seems likeable enough, actually, but the rest of the gang....
cali
(114,904 posts)William Ernest "Bill" McKibben (born December 8, 1960)[1] is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College[2] and leader of the anti-carbon campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first (The End of Nature) in 1989 about climate change.
In 2009, he led 350.org's organization of 5,200 simultaneous demonstrations in 181 countries. In 2010, McKibben and 350.org conceived the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, which convened more than 7,000 events[3] in 188 countries[4] as he had told a large gathering at Warren Wilson College shortly before the event. In December 2010, 350.org coordinated a planet-scale art project, with many of the 20 works visible from satellites.[5] In 2011 and 2012 he led the environmental campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project[6] and spent three days in jail in Washington, D.C. It was one of the largest civil disobedience actions in America for decades.[7] Two weeks later he was inducted into the literature section of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[7]
He was awarded the Gandhi Peace Award in 2013.[8] Foreign Policy magazine named him to its inaugural list[9] of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2009 and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009.[10] In 2010, the Boston Globe called him "probably the nation's leading environmentalist"[11] and Time magazine book reviewer Bryan Walsh described him as "the world's best green journalist".[12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)The party and the nation will continue to slide to the right under president Clinton or, God help us, trump
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)Renew Deal
(81,896 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Corporations are people, my friend.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,466 posts)that both candidates participated
they need to think of November while herding their flocks and
getting the party battle ready
MattP
(3,304 posts)WTF is that about
ancianita
(36,212 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)MattP
(3,304 posts)And you call her a DINO , you have some nerve
4bucksagallon
(975 posts)"According to the Washington Post, party officials and the two Democratic candidates "worked out" a compromise "based on the number of popular votes each has received to date." Under the agreement, frontrunner Hillary Clinton would be allotted six members and Sanders five, while Wasserman Schultz will name four."
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)Yep...status quo.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)onecaliberal
(32,985 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,540 posts)to have so much influence in choosing committee members and party platform. I honestly don't know.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)we will see how this turns out. Stay tuned for the next episode of Leave It To Sanders.
bucolic_frolic
(43,466 posts)it's going to be great
There's going to be a wall, a great wall, a very big wall ...
and a balanced budget by selling federal assets like parks and millions of acres
and jobs that are so good we'll need a Canadian Wall as well to keep the Canucks out
and factories flown on airlines from China
and tax cuts for everyone especially the middle class, and low income people
will pay no tax
it will be great, no NATO, no defense
All the women will be beauty queens
It's going to be paradise
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)of his other choices on a committee together! It's the best of the best!
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)for Cornell West.
Zen Democrat
(5,901 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)tomm2thumbs
(13,297 posts)getting in the room with more than one set of eyes on the process is the first step
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Those states heavily favored Bernie in the polling as well as actual proportional caucus votes. That ridiculous DWS and Clinton wouldn't allow those states a say. Why the hell should DWS have any picks? Split them between Bernie and Hillary.
mudstump
(342 posts)turbinetree
(24,745 posts)at least we are progressive and we have inclusion from classes and from all parts of this diverse society, what I am really happy about is that we the Native Americans will have voice on the platform to writing what this country needs. Because we need to end what is happening on not only this reservation but others like the Apache brother and Sisters, and the Navajo.
I am so glad that Senator Sanders said that we the Native Americans need our voices heard, and with this we can move forward-----------------a lot better than the drumpsf and the right wingers republican fascists nationalist that want to sell off our land based on pure greed, and have done nothing to move our culture and society forward with jobs and training and skills-------------and most importantly the end of being disenfranchised from voting
http://www.re-member.org/pine-ridge-reservation.aspx
Honk-------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)MisterFred
(525 posts)They're certainly not conservative favorites!
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)I'll send a happy face in your direction. There.
cali
(114,904 posts)Inhofe loathes him,as do all climate change deniers.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)tomp
(9,512 posts)DSW didn't get any votes. A DSW pick is a Clinton pick. No wonder Sanders wants to go all the way to the convention.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)It's just words, no?
apnu
(8,759 posts)The platform defines what the Democratic party is about and campaigning on as a whole. Presidential, Govenors, Senate and Representative races all will be under it.
apnu
(8,759 posts)From the link, which is citing WaPo:
The Clinton campaigns choices are Wendy Sherman, a former top State Department official and Clinton surrogate; Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and longtime Clinton confidante; Rep. Luis Guttierez of Illinois; Carol Browner, a former former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy; Ohio State Rep. Alicia Reece and Paul Booth of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.
Wasserman Schultz also named former California Rep. Howard Berman; California Rep. Barbara Lee and author and executive Bonnie Schaefer.
Uncle Joe
(58,520 posts)Thanks for the thread, kadaholo.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)great picks all around..
brush
(53,971 posts)That part is not unprecedented news.
I do like four of Sanders' picks. The West selection is questionable, seems to be a direct swipe at the President.
Seems nothing was learned from all the lost votes in the primaries because of West being a surrogate.
I like also that Clinton picked three women and a labor advocate for her slots on the committee.
Larkspur
(12,804 posts)supporters to win the GE and by respecting the success Bernie has had this year they are respecting his supporters.
The picks by Bernie are excellent and show that the platform will be discussed and not just rubber stamped.