People's Summit transcript: Naomi Klein

Submitted by Meteor Man on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 9:53pm

Our Dreams Don't Fit on Your Ballots": Naomi Klein on Next Steps for Pro-Bernie Sanders Movement

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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And I'd like Naomi to start off, especially talking about the conversation has been won among the public against neoliberalism, but neoliberalism proceeds ahead anyway. And what -- what do you see is the vision for where this movement should go?
NAOMI KLEIN: Thank you. Thank you, Juan, and thank you for sharing that hard-won wisdom. ...

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 10:37pm
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JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, John, how does a -- how does a movement, especially now at this critical time of a presidential race, and in the aftermath of a presidential race, how does a movement like this consolidate, learn the lessons necessary and go to another stage? Because movements rise, and movements fall. And unless you are able to consolidate the key lessons at each period, and as capitalism has been so resilient at shape shifting, how does the movement adapt to the new conditions?

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by Amanda Matthews on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 11:46pm
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Neo-Liberalism: The ideology is just a cover for the greed.

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Submitted by Empower Ink on Tue, 06/21/2016 - 11:50pm

I'm hppy and relieved that Naomi Klein and John Nichols were there. Building on the Bernie Sanders' movement. and thanks to to the Nurses United.

Please keep passing along these transcripts. Meteor Man. Much appreciated.

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Yahoo

Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 12:01am
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Nurses rock!

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn

Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 8:51am
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When Juan asked (paraphrased) should we work from inside the system, outside the system, or tear down the system? It was the last idea that garnered the cheers. at 5:30 or so

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6wPHJmct94]

Those you want to hear what happened here's all of day one and links follow this clip for other days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eLstcQ_83s (3 hrs) all of day one (the conference starts about 1 hr in)

I also enjoyed Naomi's interview on the real news where she talks about the LEAP manifesto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR5litI_oio (20 min)

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Wed, 06/22/2016 - 9:40am
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Good lookin out Lookout! LEAP discussion in Klein interview starts about 15 minutes in. Awesome!

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"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn