• Democrats struggle for unity as protesters swarm Netroots convention
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[B]Democrats struggle for unity as protesters swarm Netroots convention [/B][I]The Guardian, Sunday, 17 July, 2016[/I] [QUOTE]No sooner had the question been posed of where angry young activists would go after the [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/bernie-sanders"]Bernie Sanders[/URL] campaign than a group of angry young activists provided the answer: to the streets. The surprise walk-out of protesters from a conference of US progressives in St Louis this weekend forced the cancellation of its panel on “translating millennial votes into power”. But here was more vivid testimony. Despite Sanders urging his supporters to back Hillary Clinton in an [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/12/bernie-sanders-supports-hillary-clinton-president"]official endorsement[/URL] a few days earlier, the energy once captured by his campaign – and beyond it, in the Black Lives Matter protests – appeared already to be slipping out of the hands of Democrats. Hands Up United – a group born of anti-police violence protests in nearby Ferguson – brought both the Netroots convention and surrounding freeways to a standstill, accusing the largely white delegates of becoming “occupiers” in the “disunited States of America”. “Mic check, mic check,” they chanted, in an echo of the Occupy movement that used voices in the street to amplify its message. Across the corridor in another unofficial Netroots spin-off, a different group of activists were plotting to do the same on a bigger stage in Philadelphia, where the Democratic party is holding its national convention in a week’s time. Democracy Spring is planning non-violent civil disobedience on a daily basis, scheduling sit-ins and mass arrests until the party promises to scrap the system of super-delegates that so enraged Sanders supporters during the long and bitter nomination contest. ... [/QUOTE] [QUOTE]... “Sanders ran the most successful progressive campaign in the last 50 years, so it gives us hope that the Democratic party can still be the home of progressive values,” said Alan Grayson, who is running against the Florida Republican Marco Rubio for the state’s crucial Senate seat. “Our democracy is not quite dead yet,” added Grayson. “We are not at the point where the oligarchy has everything it wants … the Sanders campaign is a sign that we are doing something; that there is a possibility that we can have a functioning democracy in this country.” But not everyone gathered at this fast-fragmenting coalition of progressives in St Louis was so sure. “We live in the age of Ferguson,” warned one of the uprising’s most charismatic leaders, the Rev Osagyefo Sekou. “The occupation of public space, the rejection of traditional leadership and calling into question systems that previous generations sought to become a part of. “The age of Ferguson demands that we ask a different set of questions,” he added. “Much of it is not going to happen in electoral politics; it’s going to be young people in the streets. I am not saying don’t vote. I am saying vote [I]and[/I]. Voting is not the end goal. Voting is harm reduction.” [/QUOTE] Full Story: [URL]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/17/democrats-netroots-convention-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders[/URL] Alt Source(s)/Related: [URL="http://www.ktrs.com/protesters-briefly-close-section-of-st-louis-highway/"]http://www.ktrs.com/protesters-briefly-close-section-of-st-louis-highway/ [/URL]
Both of these parties are having lousy time. Good.
I thought it was interesting that Hillary was commenting on the Republicans being disorderly at their convention when she's not out of the woods yet herself.
I feel there is a small but real chance the 2 party system is about to fragment like a mirror in a thousand pieces... i wont mourn it.
[QUOTE=UserDirk580;50738325]I thought it was interesting that Hillary was commenting on the Republicans being disorderly at their convention when she's not out of the woods yet herself.[/QUOTE] Hilary and hypocrisy are synonymous
[QUOTE=Shirt.;50738336]Hypocrisy and hypocrisy are synonymous[/QUOTE] What does that even mean? i mean they are literally the same words...
[QUOTE=Blizzerd;50738341]What does that even mean? i mean they are literally the same words...[/QUOTE] Please tell me there's a browser extension that does this :v:
[QUOTE=CroGamer002;50738298]Both of these parties are having lousy time. Good.[/QUOTE] It's kind of a shame because both parties had an opportunity to provide a "good candidate" to contrast the other's shit one, but they both decided to go for shit ones and now it just sorta balances out onto an even playing field again.
the democratic party has no interest in properly tackling inequality, the reaction to bernie was pretty clear and he's like the softest smooth edged socialist grandpa you can be
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