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(11,641 posts) Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:16 PM Aug 2016

PRESS RELEASE: Our Revolution Announces Formation of Board - August 29, 2016

WASHINGTON -- Our Revolution on Monday announced the formation of its board. The diverse coalition of eleven former elected officials, organizational leaders and grassroots activists join the board to continue the work they started as volunteers and surrogates for Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, mobilizing progressives across the country to transform American politics.

"I am proud to join the board and continue volunteering for Our Revolution. Bernie's transformative campaign was just the beginning,” said civil rights leader Ben Jealous. “We now have to follow through on our promises to help pass criminal justice reform, the $15 minimum wage and climate change legislation while stopping our endless wars and the TPP, and electing true progressives from the Deep South to the Northwest.”

“I am proud to continue this work with Our Revolution, because this is the work worth doing,” said former Ohio state Sen. Nina Turner. “We are focused on the mission of transforming our political landscape issue by issue and candidate by candidate. It is through our unity and engagement that we continue to tap into this awakened consciousness which has the power to transform our country for generations to come.

“Some of us have spent years working for civil rights, against discrimination and hate crimes. Some of us have worked for workers’ rights, a fair economy, or protecting our environment. Some of us are immigrants, others born here,” said Board Chair Larry Cohen. “But we all have something in common: we want to protect human rights here in the United States and globally.”

“I'm incredibly excited to continue the work that Bernie and so many others started in order to further our shared progressive agenda,” said former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores. “It's truly an honor to work alongside the talented Our Revolution board and staff, who are as committed as I am to the future of our political movement.”

Full board list below:

Nina Turner - Fmr. Ohio State Senator
Deborah Parker - Native American Leader
Ben Jealous - Civil Rights Leader
Jim Hightower - Political Leader, National Radio Commentator & Writer
Jim Zogby - Arab American Human Rights Leader
Huck Gutman - Former Chief of Staff for Senator Bernie Sanders
Jane Kleeb - Environmental Activist
Lucy Flores - Fmr. Nevada Assemblywoman
Larry Cohen - Labor
Catalina Velasquez - Immigration, Reproductive Justice and Trans Queer Liberation Activist
Shailene Woodley - Actress and Environmental Activist

https://ourrevolution.com/press/our-revolution-announces-formation-of-board

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PRESS RELEASE: Our Revolution Announces Formation of Board - August 29, 2016 (Original Post) think Aug 2016 OP

Lots of "formers" on there. tonyt53 Aug 2016 #1

One imagines we are all former something. LanternWaste Aug 2016 #2

Yes. A strong group of accomplished members who've fought for Democratic issues across the spectrum think Aug 2016 #3

Does this mean WEAVER is out? Will the people who quit come back? MADem Aug 2016 #4

Weaver is still there and yes some people left. Still it's good to see the broad spectrum of people think Aug 2016 #5

It's good to see this on DU. Delmette Aug 2016 #6

Very cool! think Aug 2016 #7

tonyt53

(5,737 posts)

1. Lots of "formers" on there.

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:19 PM

Aug 2016

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)

2. One imagines we are all former something.

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:23 PM

Aug 2016

One imagines we are all former something, regardless of its relevance to the story in question.

think

(11,641 posts)

3. Yes. A strong group of accomplished members who've fought for Democratic issues across the spectrum

Reply to tonyt53 (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:24 PM

Aug 2016

Accomplished people who are now all dedicated to seeing these Democratic issues and values move forward for the American people and all people through this new group.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. Does this mean WEAVER is out? Will the people who quit come back?

Reply to think (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:32 PM

Aug 2016

Or is Weaver still in charge of this effort?

Less than a week before its official launch on Wednesday, Bernie Sanders’ new political group is working its way through an internal war that led to the departure of digital director Kenneth Pennington and at least four others from a team of 15, and the return of presidential campaign manager Jeff Weaver as the group’s new president.

“Kenneth chose to leave the organization. He’d worked on the campaign from the very beginning … he decided to do something else I guess,” Weaver said Monday evening, but “we’re very happy to be putting the A-team back together.”

People familiar with what occurred say that the board, which is chaired by the Vermont senator’s wife Jane, was growing increasingly concerned about campaign finance questions being raised over the last week. Their concern reached a breaking point, one person deeply involved with the Sanders world said, with a story last Friday from ABC News about how the group would handle the particular tax questions raised by having a senator so closely associated with a 501(c)4 nonprofit organization that has strict restrictions on its political work.

Underlying all this, though, are deep, still-raw tensions left over from the presidential campaign which by the end had become a war between the older aides who felt that their experience and planning explained Sanders’ ability to translate his message into votes, and younger aides who felt dismissed by older aides whom they felt didn’t appreciate how much of what Sanders achieved was because of their digital and organizing prowess, which turned the senator into a sensation.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/bernie-sanders-group-turmoil-227297#ixzz4Ix4OQkIB