AP recaps full St. Louis Platform discussion + video of mtg
Video of discussion from tonight
Climate change is at beginning of the video.
Fracking discussion is about 4 min in.
Democrats reject platform proposal opposing trade deal
In
Opposing death penalty
"a cruel and unusual form of punishment which has no place" in the nation
Expansion of Social Security
$15 minimum wage
"raise and index the minimum wage."
Glass Steagall
"including an updated and modernized version of Glass-Steagall."
Out
Opposing TPP, would be at odds with Obama's support of it.
Carbon Tax
Moratorium on Fracking
Working into the evening, the panel narrowly rejected amendments offered by environmentalist Bill McKibben, a Sanders supporter, that would have imposed a tax on carbon and imposed a national moratorium on fracking.
The document will be debated and revised before the party's July convention and includes a dozen themes, including sections dealing with the economy, climate change, education, health care, national security and other issues.
Sanders, in a statement, said he was "disappointed and dismayed" that the committee would vote down a measure on trade that both he and Clinton supported but added that he was pleased with the proposals on Glass-Steagall and the death penalty.
Next meeting is in Orlando: Southeast – Orlando, FL on July 8th and 9th (platform committee meeting)
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Interesting: Cornel West is abstaining on the document.
Deborah Parker said Bernie Sanders is her hero. 
Comments
Thank you very much for posting this.
I found it very interesting even though I actually only caught like the tail end, the last hour or two. Cornel West was fantastic as well as a number of others. I must say that I now realize that there is absolutely nothing that DWS can say that I won't take "wrong."
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
Long discussion at The Progressive Wing.
http://theprogressivewing.com/demplatform-committee-votes-down-15-minwag...
Cornel West was the only one to abstain from a reactionary sheep-dogging piece of garbage platform. Thank you brother Cornel.
From the Light House.
Sounds like $15 min wage
was voted down. The essayist has it in the "In" column. Not sure which is correct now.
$15 voted yes. Incl. in platform.edited to correct/ nt.
Dem Platform Committee member
Only have watched several minutes so far, but had to look up who Carol Browner is. She spoke out against the carbon tax and against the moratorium on fracking helping to defeat them.
Thanks for posting the video. I will watch more. Wish I had 9 hours to watch it all.
Right after the scientist tells everyone that
the natural gas is leaking at way too high a level and is thus causing MORE global warming, that dumbass Carol Browner "rebuts" him by saying it's actually reduced it. One of them is lying. Guess which one I'm betting on.
Sanders on Platform:
Ending the drug war?
Where is legal pot? I'll look closer including at TPW when I'm not on a phone.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
So...
Irrelevant platform document that everyone ignores is watered down to placate big business and the wealthy. Microscopic effort to avoid human extinction in 20 years are voted down. The leader of the revolution vows to take the fight over the irrelevant document to the convention. That about sum it up?
"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function." -- Albert Bartlett
"A species that is hurtling toward extinction has no business promoting slow incremental change." -- Caitlin Johnstone
As Bernie said...
in NY the other night, the platform is just a few pages and means nothing if we don't fight for those issues.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”