How You Can tell DNC We Need a Convention that Listens to We, the People & Not Effing Money

By now we know that Hillary's and the DNC's hand-picked members of the DNC platform committee are rejecting the inclusion of almost all of Bernie's policy proposals and issues from the official DNC platform that will be voted on at the Dem Convention. It's pretty disgusting but not unexpected.

Here's how to tell them to go F$# themselves and also spread the word enough is enough.

It's pretty simple really. Here's all you have to do.

1. Go to this link and Print out the Sign.

2. Fill in why you think the people need their own convention this July. Make it general or personal as you like. Here is the one I posted on twitter, and also posted here, yesterday.

3. Post it on any social media platform in which you participate: Facebook, Twitter, reddit, tumbler or if you do Instagram or Vine, those as well. Use hashtags such as #PeoplesRevolution, #DNC2016, #SeeYouInPhilly or any other one of your choice - I like #ScrewYouDNC myself, but I'm sure you'll think of something.

If you don't have a twittter account, no worries, I will tweet them for you if you send your picture to my email, stevendbt at yahoo dot com.

4. This one is optional, but please send your picture also to shana@thepeoplesrevolution.org and she'll post it with your personal message on The People's Revolution tumblr blog.

BTW, full disclosure: I'm a social media and outreach volunteer for The People's Convention, which is being organized by The People's Revolution.

At our event venue in Philly on July 23rd, the historic The Arch Street Meeting House, the public will ratify a People's Platform advocating for a progressive agenda, containing planks on, among other issues, Racial Justice, Climate Change, Income Inequality, A Living Wage, Universal Healthcare, Electoral Reform, Getting Big Money out of Politics, and Free Tuition and Student Debt Relief.

The People's Convention is open to the public and anyone may attend.

After ratification, pledged delegates (for a certain candidate who the media would like to go away) intend to introduce the People's Platform on the floor of the DNC, in order to give all Dem delegates to the DNC the opportunity to adopt progressive policies a majority of Americans support and upon which Senator Sanders campaigned. Should make for some excitement inside the DNC convention.

Oh and if you do tweet your picture with your handwritten message, feel free to tag me @StevenDBT and also tag @Peoples_Rev and we will retweet you.

For more about The People's Convention event go to their website.

Thanks very much,

Steven D

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mhagle's picture

Could you check your link again?

Sounds like a great plan!!!!

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

OLinda's picture

If you are talking about the link at #1 in the blockquote, it is working. It was slow to load for me, but it does work. Try it again.

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OLinda's picture

Oh, it looks like it was broken, but now Steven has fixed it. Looks like he and I posted at the same time. Thanks, Steven!

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Steven D's picture

Sorry about that.

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"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott

mhagle's picture

Thanks!

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Marilyn

"Make dirt, not war." eyo

Hillbilly Dem's picture

of the DNC. Yet, "They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing." They have dodged the bullet that was Bernie's campaign. Rather than embrace the Bernie Sanders Dems, they reject them. They have calculated that they don't need us, our money, nor our votes.

No, they look to the "moderate" Rethugs for money and votes. It would gall them to embrace Bernie, not to mention his unwashed supporters (of which I am proud to be listed as one). They won't listen to Zogby, McKibben nor Dr. West. They don't even have to "not listen to" Rose Ann DeMoro because they wouldn't even let her in the room.

They will ignore Bernie, us and anybody else that doesn't have a 7 figure bank account and the willingness to part with some of it. Anything that can be done to shove it up the collectives arses of the DNC is just fine by me.

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

Equinespectre's picture

"They have calculated that they don't need us, our money, nor our votes."

We are/have become irrelevant to them.

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So they scare us with a boogeyman. While Hillary says nice things about people of color, LGBT people, women, yada yada yada. Meanwhile, the only people of color she really cares about are those covered with long green.

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I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.

hester's picture

They have calculated that they don't need us, our money, nor our votes.

And they'll get neither from me. I am scared of Trump. Just as scared of HRH

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Don't believe everything you think.

ZimInSeattle's picture

rehabilitate the party from within. He doesn't owe them jack shit. Now he needs to meet with Stein and that will surely scare them death.

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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK | "The more I see of the moneyed peoples, the more I understand the guillotine." - G. B. Shaw Bernie/Tulsi 2020

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"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey

Lenzabi's picture

If not Bernie,,,,JILL!

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So long, and thanks for all the fish

Zinman's picture

I want to make my vote express my political orientation, but voting for Hillary would express exactly the opposite. I detest her politics and I detest her character. Voting for Trump is also unthinkable, and beyond consideration. In sum, I have ruled out the likely candidates of the Republican and Democratic Parties, so that means choosing the best of the rest, and in my opinion, there is no better choice than Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. It's not even a close decision: Dr. Stein is MY candidate.

If you share my revulsion at having to choose between two candidates you detest, then you should consider other candidates. My choice is Dr. Jill Stein, the Presidential candidate of the Green Party.

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Bollox Ref's picture

The whole thing is a pointless exercise anyway.

Just have an ermine shrouded podium for Her Royal Clintonness' pander/speech, then turn the lights out.

Given her 45 minute Wall St. speeches, anything longer might bankrupt the DNC.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

It would be so easy for Hillary to make "concessions" on a non-binding party platform that candidates are free to ignore and only political junkies ever actually read. But NO. Time to show the Bernie people who is boss!

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"We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

Zinman's picture

I have read the Green Party platform and read about Dr. Jill Stein. There is no contest: vote for Dr. Jill Stein and the Green Party.

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