26-05-2016, 06:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-05-2016, 07:43 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Sanders has made Cornell West [and Bill McKibbin and Native American activist Deborah Parker; Minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and the Palestinian rights activist and scholar Jim Zogby, who founded the American Arab Institute] to the Democratic platform committee! Damn! Whatever Sander's faults are - and I can name a few - with appointments like THAT, I'll vote for Sanders in whatever party he is under the banner of! This hints of a deeper progressiveness then he has dared speak of publicly. West, McKibbin and the others are way way way more progressive than Sanders political personna....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass