2016 Elections

Obama Said Hillary Will Continue His Legacy

July 31, 2016 Michael Hudson, www.counterpunch.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Hillary Clinton, Obama, Russia, Trump

By Michael Hudson for Counterpunch. Leading up to Monday’s Democratic Party convention, Hillary chose Blue Dog Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as her VP. This was followed by the Wikileaks release of Democratic National Committee (DNC) e-mail files showing it acting as the Clinton Campaign Committee even to the point of using the same lawyers as her own campaign to oppose Bernie Sanders. The response across the Democratic neocon spectrum, from Anne Applebaum at the Washington Post to red-baiting Paul Krugman and the Sunday talk shows it was suggested that behind the Wikileaks to release DNC e-mails was a Russian plot to help elect Trump as their agent. Former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul lent his tattered reputation to claim that Putin must have sponsored the hackers who exposed the DNC dirty tricks against Bernie.

Flag Burned, Gates Stormed As Protesters Unleash Chaos Outside DNC Arena

July 27, 2016 Colin Deppen, www.pennlive.com Resist! 2016 Elections, DNC, Protests

By Colin Deppen for Penn Live - In the end, Bernie Sanders' peace and love movement went away angry on Tuesday night, very angry. Minutes after his one-time political rival in the race for president clinched the Democratic Party's nomination, supporters of Sanders stormed the gates at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, overpowering officers, scaling a security fence and at times lobbing plastic bottles at a phalanx of assembled lawmen. The activity was enough to draw a spraying of mace but little more.

Bernie Sanders Delegates Mad As Hell At DNC; Wondering What’s Next

July 27, 2016 Chloe Angyal, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, DNC

By Chloe Angyal for The Huffington Post - PHILADELPHIA ― Jim Boydston was hoarse. He’d been talking all day, and yelling all night, and at the Democratic National Convention, the days and the nights are very long. But hoarseness didn’t stop him from singing, and in the middle of the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Center City, he belted out a song about Bernie Sanders and his fight to protect the American people from corporate greed.

Nina Turner Allies Hold Press Event To Defend Prominent Sanders’ Surrogate

July 27, 2016 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders

By Jon Queally for Common Dreams - Allies of Nina Turner are holding a press event inside the media tent at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday at 5:45pm local time. Accoring to a press release by National Nurses United (NNU), "An all-star list of performers, including Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Rosario Dawson, Shailene Woodley, and Kendrick Sampson, will headline a media availability today to respond to efforts by the Democratic National Committee to silence former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, a leading and prominent African American surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders."

‘People’s Caravan’ Charting Out Bold Alternatives To Election Cycle Nightmare

July 18, 2016 Sarah Lazare, www.alternet.org Resist! 2016 Elections

By Sarah Lazare for AlterNet - “We are in the middle of a storm,” says Cindy Wiesner, national coordinator for the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance. “The system isn't working, and we can’t depend on the two major political parties to change it.” Wiesner is one of nearly 50 social movement leaders from around the United States and the world who will cram onto a bus and trek across the country from the Republican to Democratic National Conventions later this month under the banner, "It Takes Roots to Change the System: The People's Caravan."

Clinton’s Hawk-In-Waiting

July 12, 2016 Philip Giraldi, www.theamericanconservative.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Hillary Clinton

By Philip Giraldi for The American Conservative - The other day, a question popped up on a Facebook thread I was commenting on: “Where is Victoria Nuland?” The short answer, of course, is that she is still holding down her position as assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs. But a related question begs for a more expansive response: Where will Victoria Nuland be after January? Nuland is one of Hillary Clinton’s protégés at the State Department, and she is also greatly admired by hardline Republicans.

Duopoly Parties Fall Short On Universal, Democratic Education

July 10, 2016 Jeff Bfryant, www.educationopportunitynetwork.org Educate! 2016 Elections, Education, Higher Education, Student Debt

By Jeff Bryant for Education Opportunity Network. Although education policy has not been a prominent issue in the current presidential race, the Democratic Party’s platform gives the subject some of its just due with a fairly extensive treatment. In the current draft, which will be finalized on June 8 and 9, there are numerous mentions of education and a special section with over 1,000 words devoted to the topic. Many are saying this platform “may be most progressive platform the Democratic Party may have ever had.” But is it progressive on education? Let’s weigh the evidence. First let’s examine how the Democratic Party platform differs from what’s proposed in the Republican Party’s platform.

Major Political News Media Sell Interviews At Conventions

July 3, 2016 Lee Fang, www.theintercept.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Corruption, Media, Propaganda

By Lee Fang for The Intercept. For high-rolling special interests looking to make an impression at the presidential conventions next month, one option is to pay a lot of money to a media outlet. Lobbyists for the oil industry, for instance, are picking up the tab for leading Beltway publications to host energy policy discussions at the convention, including The Atlantic and Politico. And for the right price, some political media outlets are even offering special interviews with editorial staffers and promotional coverage at the convention. The Hill newspaper, which is sponsoring events at both the RNC and DNC, offers sponsors “a turnkey and custom experience,” including a “Thought-Leader Luncheon” moderated by The Hill’s editorial staff and the luncheon sponsor, who also gets to “curate a list of participants from politics, government, media and industry.”

DNC Torpedoes Majority Of Sanders’ Agenda

June 26, 2016 Hugh Wharton, www.usuncut.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party

By Hugh Wharton for US Uncut. St. Louis, MO - The battle over the official Democratic Party platform began in earnest this Friday at a nine-hour meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, and already the sparks of tension seem to be outweighing the calls for “unity.” The Democratic Party’s platform is an official statement of values on a wide range of issues, and while it is officially non-binding, the platform serves as a crucial guidepost for the entire party. The 2016 platform committee comprises fifteen members, with five members chosen by Bernie Sanders, six chosen by Hillary Clinton, and four chosen by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chair of the Democratic National Committee. Bernie Sanders himself had conflicting feelings about the progress and concessions made on Friday.

Who Should Make Policy, People Or The Politicians?

June 25, 2016 William John Cox, www.informationclearinghouse.info Create! 2016 Elections, Democracy, Policy

By William John Cox for Information Clearing House - June 23, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - In the midst of what undoubtedly will be the nastiest and most expensive presidential campaign in American history, it is important to remember that the question is not so much whether a candidate is a good or bad person, but rather what should and will be the policies, objectives, and consequences of her or his administration? What do the People of the United States really want and expect their government to do on their behalf? Who should make political policy, the People, or the politicians they elect to represent them?

Safe States, Inside-Outside & Other Liberal Illusions

June 19, 2016 Howie Hawkins, www.counterpunch.org Strategize! 2016 Elections, Democrats, Revolution, third parties

By Howie Hawkins for Counterpunch. Bernie Sanders is on his way to an endorsement of Hillary Clinton, the candidate of War, Wall Street, and Wal-Mart. Sanders ran as a New Deal Democrat, but he will soon be campaigning for a plain old corporate New Democrat. To keep his troops engaged through this transition, Sanders will stage a few rules and platform fights at the convention. But rule changes are irrelevant to the real party power structure of candidate organizations and their corporate investors. Any platform planks won will be irrelevant as well. No corporate Democrat will feel bound by them. Faced with that demoralizing prospect, some Sanders supporters are recycling failed old strategies in an attempt to salvage Sanders’ “political revolution” without opposing the Democratic Party.

Shut Down The Democratic National Convention

June 8, 2016 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton

By Chris Hedges for Truth Dig - On July 25, opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Cheri Honkala, leader of the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, who was denied a permit to march by city authorities, will rally with thousands of protesters outside City Hall. Defying the police, they will march up Broad Street to the convention. We will recapture our democracy in the streets of cities such as Philadelphia, not in convention halls such as the aptly named Wells Fargo Center...

Republican National Convention Perfect Place To ‘Cause Ruckus’

June 5, 2016 Chad Childers, www.loudwire.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Music, Politics, Revolution

By Chad Childers for Loudwire.com. Prophets of Rage have played their first show in Los Angeles, with their second scheduled to take place Friday night (June 3) at the Hollywood Palladium, but what happens after that? Determined that their music is needed now more than ever, the collective of Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk, Public Enemy’s Chuck D and DJ Lord and Cypress Hill’s B-Real will take their music to where it’s needed most. When asked about what the band was doing in July, Morello told Bloomberg Politics (in the video interview above), “Well there a thing called the Republican National Convention in July and that’ll be a perfect place for a band like Prophets of Rage to cause a ruckus and we will be there on the streets in the fields and in the concert hall.”

Newsletter – US Democracy Crisis: Illegitimate System

June 4, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www,.popularresistance.org Newsletter 2016 Elections, Corruption, Democracy, oligarchy, Plutocracy, Revolution, TPP, Transparency

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Two years ago we wrote that the task of the movement is to build national consensus. We have shown in previous articles that national consensus is being reached on many issues, but the government is not responding to the public consensus. We have also reported on research that shows the US is really an oligarchy operating in the worst democracy in the western world. The government's lack of responsiveness to the people and elected officials who fail to represent the people’s views are resulting in a crisis of democracy. This week the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs reported on that crisis. They found the legitimacy of US government has disappeared

Trump’s Albuquerque Rally Erupts In Violence

May 26, 2016 David Martosko, www.dailymail.co.uk Resist! 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, New Mexico, Protests

By David Martosko for The Daily Mail - Donald Trump has hit out at [community members] who protested a rally in Albuquerque last night which turned violent when demonstrators trying to disrupt his speech clashed with riot police, set fire to flags and sent people running in fear over the sound of a 'gunshot'. Around 100 protesters broke through a barricade outside the building shortly after Trump took to the stage, trying to throw rocks through a window and at police, and setting fires on the street outside.

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