In this episode of Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges interviews disbarred civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart and civil rights activist Ralph Poynter. They discuss the political radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s that Stewart and Poynter took part in, and debate where that political consciousness is today in the face of worsening social and economic conditions.
The Return of the Radical:
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The Sanders Campaign Is Absolutely Destroying Us!" - California Green Party has lost 30% of its members since Bernie announced

Is that a problem or a solution?

With Sanders and Hillary Clinton locked in a statistical dead heat in California, at least according to the polls, a Sanders victory here may hinge on his ability to mobilize even more of these ultra-left voters. But consolidating that fractious group is no easy task, even for a democratic socialist who regularly sounds the themes of the Occupy movement.
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Consider that Occupy Oakland has not promoted any events featuring Bernie Sanders—not even his Monday visit to Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza, the site of the group's original occupation. Instead, last week, Occupy Oakland urged its 47,000 Twitter followers to attend a Friday afternoon Berkeley rally hosted by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.

"These folks don't hate the Democratic Party as much as they hate what it has become."

Stein attributes this support to her rejection of the Democratic Party and uncompromising stance on issues such as Palestinian rights. "Our campaign has liberty that Bernie Sanders does not because we are not on the leash of a corporate party sponsored by war profiteers and Wall Street banks," she told me. "Bernie has been restrained."

Well, this seems to be her who is not willing to work with Sanders, and not the other way around. Unless I just miss something.

Stein bristles at the notion that her campaign could be a spoiler in the Clinton-Sanders race: "This is basically a propaganda campaign, a disinformation campaign," she says. "The reality is that the lesser of two evils is not a solution."

Sanders' supporters here have spent months responding to such arguments. Tom Gallagher, a former chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America, has represented the Sanders campaign in two debates with left-wing political parties in the Bay Area, with another planned for Saturday at a Berkeley pub. He wrote a book several years ago arguing that leftists should occupy the Democratic Party.

"To me, this is the most important campaign in 40 years," says Gallagher, a former Ralph Nader supporter who is now a Democratic Party delegate representing San Francisco. "If we want [socialism] in play in this country we've gotta be in the presidential election—that's when people think about big ideas."

California Green Party has lost 30% of its members since Bernie announced.

that Sanders is somehow "uncooperative" with the Greens and now he is "hurting them".

This is twice now, for the same outlet. No offense to you--it says what it says--but it would be good if we could find another outlet, corroborating the Greens officially taking this position. I've been looking since the time Mother Jones claimed that Bernie wasn't returning Jill Stein phone calls, and have yet to find other sources for same.

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