Brand New Congress - Kickoff Gatherings!!! (Kossacks_for_Sanders)
Submitted by GreyWolf on Sun, 05/22/2016 - 12:01am
Brand New Congress / Bernie National Committee - Organizing Kickoff Gatherings!!!
Hey everyone! We’re continuing the revolution with a campaign to elect a Brand New Congress! Come meet national and local BNC organizers and supporters and let’s get this thing started in your city! This event is an opportunity to learn more about BNC, join a volunteer team, suggest members of your community who would make great representatives and meet some amazing new people.
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I like the idea
but I don't like the name of the group on Reddit.
I understand why people named the group kossacks for Sanders after either the March 15 deadline or people got banned from dk, but I think it's time for the name 'kossacks' to go away.
I joined this site over a year ago so that I could speak freely and not be told constantly that what I was writing was wrong.
I'm a member of the other group and joined for the same reason after Markos shat on the Bernie supporters, but IMO, the name still idenfies with dk.
It's time for people to move on.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Agreed.
MO is one helluva good moderator and the subreddit has good content. Time for a face lift to keep it relevant.
I think the BNC idea has nothing to do with DHRC
The establishment is powerful. If we want to change this world, we have to unite first. El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido.
And what, pray,
is the DHRC?
Dharamshila Cancer Hospital and Research Centre?
David Hall Rare Coins?
Defenders of Human Rights Center?
Digestive Health Research Center?
Dutch Historic Rally Club?
Perhaps you could amuse us by using the full name before the acronym? You know, Associated Press (AP) style? It might take an extra ten seconds, but what is time compared to understanding? At the moment, your no text headline means absolutely nothing.
The more people I meet, the more I love my cats.
You could have just asked
For what its worth (FWIW) my guess would be the Daily Hillary Rodham Clinton also know as (AKA) Daily Kos
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
I could have just asked,
but where is the fun in that? Besides, humans learn best through pain and failure. Rub it in, let the lesson be fully absorbed!
(and yeah, you're almost certainly correct in your acronym analysis. I'm a maroon for not thinking of it myself! This is my learning moment.)
The more people I meet, the more I love my cats.
Oi, mind you manners around here, jimpost. C99 is all about
a wide diversity of viewpoints and none of them include being an arsehole.
Pull in your horns and remember the life lessons of kindergarten. Good day.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
heh
Confession - it took me a few minutes to work out the acronym
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” -Voltaire
Morning GreyWolf and TY for this. It looks like there's lots of
energy for a 3rd party. It's too bad c99ers didn't feel up to organizing first. It looks like c99ers interested in working for a 3rd party will have to go off-site for that. Oh well, as long as it happens.
Do let us know how the meet-ups go, my friend. Enjoy your day,
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
"Do let us know how the meet-ups go ..."
Well, I'll keep an eye in the inter-toobz and spread the word, but it's not like I'll be going to any meetings ... I live in a deep, deep, DEEP, red state. ;->
Oops :=) You're deep under cover then, mate! Good luck with
all the nutbars, eh.
Resilience: practical action to improve things we can control.
3D+: developing language for postmodern spirituality.
Hmmm
I looked at the Oakland CA facebook event page linked and of those going or interested not one person lives here. I looked at the San Francisco page and some of the same names popped up.
Then I though I wonder what Barbara Lee (my rep) has to say about this. I am not unhappy with Barbara Lee.
But I do agree with the need to renew Congress. In my ideal we would steal some Democrats into a new party. Give them a party that gives them (us) a better voice.
"If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back" - Regina Brett