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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPeople's Summit: Progressive Gathering Fertilizing Momentum of Bernie's Revolution
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/18/peoples-summit-progressive-gathering-fertilizing-momentum-bernies-revolutionSanders' campaign has 'demonstrated broad public support for real, transformative change'
Harnessing the broad desire for "transformative change," thousands are expected to gather this weekend in Chicago for a three-day event centered around many of the progressive issues that Bernie Sanders put at the forefront of his presidential campaign.
Backed by organizations including 350.org, Physicians for a National Health Program, National Nurses Union (NNU), Hedge Clippers, and the People for Bernie, the People's Summit says in its call for the event that it aims "to bring together activists committed to a different kind of agenda: a People's Agenda that can enhance and expand issue campaigns and hold all elected officials accountable to popular demands for justice, equality, and freedom."
Author and climate activist Naomi Klein was among the speakers presenting on Friday, while sessions on the docket for Saturday include "Understanding Our Movement Moment"; "Energy Democracy and Climate Justice"; "Ending Voter Suppression, Mass Incarceration, Deportations and Gender Inequality"; "Healthcare Not Warfare: It's Time for Global Peace and Justice"; and "How to Get Big Money Out of Politics."
The roster features presentations by noted progressives such as political scientist Frances Fox Piven, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), National Domestic Workers Alliance director Ai-jen Poo, and Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, while the People Speakdramatic readings inspired by the late Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United Stateswill showcase artists including Rosario Dawson and Wallace Shawn.
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People's Summit: Progressive Gathering Fertilizing Momentum of Bernie's Revolution (Original Post)
Ferd Berfel
Jun 2016
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swhisper1
(851 posts)1. wish I could go, is the press going to be recording, or is there a live broadcast source?
maybe someone will record and present it viia social networking? I would think the Bernie site will put up highlights.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)2. We all know what the problems are.
What will this program suggest as ways to solve them?
ananda
(28,873 posts)3. I want a LIBERAL gathering of people ..
.. not afraid to use the word LIBERAL !!!