New Doc ' Still Berning ' Fills In Some Blanks for #NotMeUs ?
I voted for Jill Stein when she ran against Obama, gave money to Bernie when he ran in the primary, voted for Stein and other Greens by mail awhile back.
Like others here still not happy with the way things turned out with the Sanders campaign and especially not happy with how the DNC did what they did.
Found a new Dutch documentary via Twitter today that was interesting.
Not all the answers that might have been given as to why Bernie behaved as he did at the Convention and after, but some interesting footage with Jane and some still unanswered questions yet to go.
Check it out if you get time...
New documentary STILL BERNING is out.
Please watch and spread far and wide https://t.co/8Ej6wlrUmg#NotMeUs #BernieSanders— CFP (@Candidates4Prog) November 6, 2016
Like some here I will still support Sanders in his efforts to lead like he is doing just now in California. Probably will not waste my time on OurRevolution given what I saw happen to OFA but who knows...
EDIT: EDITED in response to a request in the comments for a summary:
The Bernie Sanders campaign was a success on several levels and although many have been crushed that it ultimately did not succeed and win the nomination many lessons were learned, people empowered and educated, and there have spun off several organizations which have concrete plans to change the system.
Here is info from the youtube link:
Published on Nov 6, 2016
Bernie Sanders lost the primaries to nominate a US presidential candidate for the Democratic Party to Hillary Clinton. But it was a glorious loss. And it has become a beginning, not an end. The end of the Bernie Sanders campaign marks the start of a political movement. What are the next steps for this movement and what role will it play in future elections? What is its staying power? And how can a new political generation bring democracy back into the hands of the people and make it truly representative?
Bernie’s campaign made history by receiving a record number of donations from individual citizens, not Wall Street. For the future this could dramatically reduce the enormous power that corporations, banks and Super PACS currently have in American politics. New technology, apps and software have the potential to make campaigning more accessible and affordable to a much wider variety of people and a new kind of political candidates. Bernie’s urgent campaign message about income inequality and the economy of the 99% has galvanised this new movement into action beyond the primaries, at a time when many people of the Millennial generation and in the middle class find themselves squeezed in a post-crisis economic reality.
With: Jane O’Meara Sanders (partner, Bernie’s closest political adviser and founder of Our Revolution), Arun Chaudhary (creative director for Bernie’s online campaign and partner at digital agency Revolution Messaging), Zephyr Teachout (candidate for the US House of Representative in New York’s 19th congressional district), Saikat Chakrabarti (director digital organising technology for ‘Bernie 2016’ and one of the founders of Brand New Congress) and Josh Smith, Rapi Castillo & Jon Culver (Progressive Coders/Coders for Sanders).
Director: Kasper Verkaik
Research: Sander Tordoir, William de Bruijn
Director of photography: Myrthe Mosterman
Sound: Diego van Uden
Editor: Obbe Verwer
Web editor: Tessa de Vries
Additional crew: Mariana Lafollette
Producers: Sharon Yosef, Nina Huisman
Commissioning editors: Marije Meerman, Doke Romeijn
Thanks to: Jeff Cohen, Jon Warnow, Diderik Evers, Robert S. Wilson'Bernie 2016' still photography by Arun Chaudhary
VPRO has made every effort to trace all rightful claimants regarding the extracts shown in this programme.
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News & Politics
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Jakkalbessie and I watched it and were quite impressed by what some of the younger supporters of the campaign now are working to accomplish.
Check it out! Would love it if you watch it and come back and comment.... Very positive and inspiring, the perfect vid to watch on election day imo.
Comments
I'll be watching this spinoff from #NotMeUS
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Another spinoff, formerly 'Coders for Sanders'
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
summary?
Could you please summarize what the 47 minute video is all about. Just haven't got time to watch. Just the bottom line.
thanks
I put a summary in the body of the essay just now.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Would add that I watched in three sittings pausing to get a
few things done. My wife 'Jakkalbessie' watched the first half with me during lunch then listened to the last half while washing dishes. She came back in and out to watch Teachout and the finale. We both agreed it was time well spent.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
I would like a summary too.
47 minutes is really long.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It's work of a Netherlands documentary group. Interesting.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Thanks,
I will try to watch it tonight.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Done! See body of the essay, above.
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
That America video always makes tears pop up
...just as they did as I voted. Damn.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Are you talking about the ending scenes with the music?
Mine teared up as well. Pulled on the heartstrings, didn't it?
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Bernie didn't lose, they stole it from him
Just looking at the number of people that went to his events compared to Hillary's should tell any thinking person that.
Her supporters kept telling us that crowds don't equal votes. Bullshit. Anyone who was that excited by his message would have done everything that they could do vote for him. And remember how many people gave them their hard earned money.
And they want us to believe that those people stayed home? BS again.
There is too much evidence showing how it was rigged for Hillary.
Yep. But that's not slowing down some of his former staffers
https://brandnewcongress.org/home
it seems...
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Podesta says they're going dark for the night
Too many states to close to call, he says.
"She is not done yet," he says.
We will have more to say.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
I note The Guardian and MSNBC have different numbers for Trump
The Guardian says Trump has 266 and MSNBC says he has 245.
They both show 218 for Clinton.
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member
Carville is gushing about how excellent the Philly Convention
was... oh REALLY?!
'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member