John Iadarola interviews the President of Our Revolution, Senator Nina Turner:
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Bernie Sanders On Trump’s Withdrawal From Iran Nuclear Treaty
Cenk Uygur, the host of The Young Turks, interviews Senator Bernie Sanders to get his take on Trump withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal. :
3/20 2018 IL Primary Night, Sanders to be on “All In” & Open Thread
Voting polls close at 7pm in the IL state primary this evening. There appears to be a lot of progressive and centrist energy as there is a governor’s race at stake, and 5 Dems are vying to be on the top of the ticket. The three leading contenders are JB Pritzker, a Clinton Democrat and legacy of Hyatt Hotels family, Chris Kennedy, son of RFK, and Daniel Biss, a Northwestern math professor and Our Revolution endorsee. Update: the AP has called the governor’s race for JB Pritzker. In IL-03, Marie Newman is fighting to knock off the incumbent, Dan Lipinski, … Continue reading →
1/24 News Roundup – Sanders Speaks To A Million+ About Medicare-For-All, NYC Sues Big Pharma For Fueling Opioid Epidemic & More
Bernie Sanders talks universal Medicare, and 1.1 million people click to watch him
With more than one million people watching at home, and hundreds watching from the studio audience, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leaned across his desk with a crucial health-care question.
“What’s the quality of the Norwegian system?” Sanders asked Meetali Kakadi, an Oslo-based health researcher. “Is it good?”
In her view, it was: “Far better than Canada.”
Sanders’s “town hall on Medicare for All,” an event he’d organized after becoming convinced that it would never be produced by the mainstream media, never got more combative than that. Over 100 minutes, Sanders and nine guests — three at a time, taking turns — discussed the need to bring about single-payer health care, its benefits to business, and its implementation around the world. (Kakadi’s Canada joke was aimed at Danyaal Raza, there to defend his country’s system.)
“It’s a discussion you’re not likely to see on the mainstream news,” Sanders said at the outset. “This event will not be interrupted be commercials for the drug companies.”
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On Tuesday night, it was Sanders asking the questions, and getting answers he liked. In the room — the Congressional Auditorium, where in 2010 President Obama revved up House Democrats ahead of their Affordable Care Act vote — Sanders’s audience alternated between rapt attention and grateful applause as experts explained how higher tax rates could replace America’s health-care system with universal Medicare. A mention of Tommy Douglas, the father of Canada’s health-care system who remains somewhat obscure in the United States, inspired loud applause.
“No billboards, no high salaries,” said the former Medicare and Medicaid administrator Donald Berwick. “The complexity of the system just isn’t there. What we’ve got here is insane!”
“Is that a clinical term?” asked Sanders, jokingly.
Thank you to the 1.1 million people who tuned in live to the first-ever national Medicare for All town hall tonight. Together we will successfully move the United States to a Medicare-for-all, single-payer health care system and guarantee health care to all.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 24, 2018
More news/video/tweets/etc. in the comments, including:
*Live-streamed event with Bill McKibben and Bernie Sanders
*Disaster Capitalism in Action as Puerto Rico Governor Announces Plan to Privatize Power Utility
*With a Shutdown Surrender, Democrats Left Millions of People Behind
*Why Democrats Need to Stand With Working Americans vs. Big Banks
*Montana Just Showed Every Other State How to Protect the Open Internet
*Pipeline news, Water Protector updates & More
1/16 News Roundup – Sanders: “Let’s Wrench Power Back From The Billionaires”, Our Revolution Continues The Legacy Of King & More
Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires by Bernie Sanders
Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages than they did 40 years ago, in both the United States and many other countries. They look on, feeling helpless in the face of a powerful few who buy elections, and a political and economic elite that grows wealthier, even as their own children’s future grows dimmer.
In the midst of all of this economic disparity, the world is witnessing an alarming rise in authoritarianism and rightwing extremism – which feeds off, exploits and amplifies the resentments of those left behind, and fans the flames of ethnic and racial hatred.
Now, more than ever, those of us who believe in democracy and progressive government must bring low-income and working people all over the world together behind an agenda that reflects their needs. Instead of hate and divisiveness, we must offer a message of hope and solidarity. We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice. Will this be an easy struggle? Certainly not. But it is a fight that we cannot avoid. The stakes are just too high.
As Pope Francis correctly noted in a speech at the Vatican in 2013: “We have created new idols. The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.” He continued: “Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalised: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”
A new and international progressive movement must commit itself to tackling structural inequality both between and within nations. Such a movement must overcome “the cult of money” and “survival of the fittest” mentalities that the pope warned against. It must support national and international policies aimed at raising standards of living for poor and working-class people – from full employment and a living wage to universal higher education, healthcare and fair trade agreements. In addition, we must rein in corporate power and prevent the environmental destruction of our planet as a result of climate change.
Bernie talks to Ana Kasparian of The Young Turks:
More news/video/tweets/etc. in the comments.
11/30 Joy Ann Reid Should Stick to Her MSNBC Weekend Job (with updates)
Joy Ann Reid, weekend pundit of AMJoy on MSNBC, has decided to take up the mantel of Peter Daou on Twitter. Becoming a full-throated fan of Hillary Clinton (Reid did not support Clinton in 2008) after Clinton embraced the legacy of POTUS 44, Reid has done some good work in dissecting horrible Republican policies on her show. However, Reid appears to have a thespian mask and uses it on Twitter. She attacks Bernie Sanders at any opportunity when some any Twitter user responds to her comments with complements about him. Bernie Sanders, nor his wife, Jane have been asked … Continue reading →
6/10 The People’s Summit 2017 – Day 1 in Progressive Land & Open Thread
Good Morning Birdies! After a long evening and a short night, I’m back at McCormick to watch some more panel discussions at The PS. I’m pretty close to the stage. Energy amazing, wish you were all here! Lots of kindred spirits. But you can some of the action on the livestream. The livestream link is here: http://www.thepeoplessummit.org/livestream/
From One Indie Audience Member to the Indie Media: Get on with Quality Reporting & Analysis
This is just a slight rant. I’ve been mumbling about it here, but I want folks in the Indie media, particularly those with investigative reporting and punditry that is progressive liberal left, to hopefully see this via tags. Not centrists or neo-liberals but Democratic Socialists like me, aka Berners. … Continue reading →
How Bernie Sanders Was Sabotaged By The Media
TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (@JordanChariton) spoke with Jeff Cohen, founding Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College at The People’s Summit on June 18th, 2016.
Cohen, a former analyst for Fox News Channel who was removed for not toeing the conservative line, spoke to Chariton about the media malpractice that gave rise to Donald Trump–and hurt Senator Bernie Sanders.
Up To Us Caravan: Community Conversations For Change
Check out http://www.uptous.net/ to get involved in important community conversations.
Shailene Woodley and Kendrick Sampson are involved with a group called Caravan. They travel around to various communities having conversations to bring attention to major issues. Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Shailene Woodley, and Kendrick Sampson, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
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