I missed the first half and this is from memory as my coffee brews. TPP and $15 and hour came earlier so I missed it. Please feel free to correct mistakes or add names and events I may have forgotten.

I watched the last half from the point where where McKibben with eight amendments, introduced his environmental amendments to the bitter end. McKibben, always seconded by Zogby offered a science and political based analysis of each amendment, West chimed in with support. McKibben was sick with the flu and made some of the best two minute presentations on complex scientific issues I have ever seen. The two opposition voices were invariable the two women from the Albright Stonehenge Group (I posted an essay on Albright Stonehenge last week Summers and Browner) and never once spoke about the urgency of climate change. Red State blah blah, workers blah blah, methane no danger blah blah. My comments at the time is that they were climate change deniers in "green face".

Moratorium on fracking NO 6-7,
Eminent Domain ban on hydrocarbon installations NO 6-7,
New pipelines considered for their environmental impact, NO 6-7.
Ecological Impact on new drilling and fracking, NO 6-7,
No new drilling on public land NO 6-7.
Carbon tax, down voted 6-7.

In each case Barbara Lee voted with McKibben and the Sanders delegates, change in language to underscore urgency of climate change.

The chair, AA brother Rep. Elijah Cummings, who I had counted on as an ally, was appointed as chair so he couldn't vote except in case of a tie. The one vote he did vote on, he voted with Barbara Lee and McKibben for a moratorium on fracking (later retracted because Browner or Smith had been in the bathroom). he made supportive coments on some of the other amendments. In other words, they appointed one of two (Lee being the other) key ally in the Clinton camp to the chair so he couldn't vote. They passed one environmental amendment... bike paths. BFD. when I was in grad school in the states decades ago we had bike paths and, of course another one of those types of projects built by some rip off corporation instead of public works.

The Democratic platform on environment is a sham, a fucking reactionary document far from being in any way progressive except for a few nice sounding blah blah blahs.

Then to education and health care... Barbara Lee managed to attach allowing student debtors to file for bankruptcy to the otherwise continuing the cradle to grave peonage slavery to banks with nothing I could see about tuition or even work study. If they, for example, attached a $15 min wage an hour to work study it might be possible for poor people to pay their living expense with 20 hours a week WS employment. Well, if in the highly unlikely event that bankruptcy is pushed by Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Sallie Mae that would be useful. We could have a mass and individual filing of bankruptcy in our pocket of protests.

Then on the universal care... voted down with the same 6-7 and rep. Elijah sidelined as chairman. By this time West was visibly fuming...

Parker, the Native American in the Sanders camp offered a plank for American Indian rights which was lengthy and beautifully written (later one of the AA Clinton reps complained that AA's didn't get much in the platform)... the amendment was passed unanimously with a standing ovation. My opinion is they could have just added "and everyone else " to her plank and cut the platform down to a five minute read and it would have been a great entire platform.

On to health care. Zogby made an impassioned plea for passage. Single payer "aspiration" voted down 6-7 in favor of dicking around with the failed ACA insurance company boondoggle. I was shocked that everyone gave lip service (except West) to how great ACA is, even though it is a disaster to any progressive with a brain.

Then Palestine, once again Zogby gives an impassioned plea to treat Palestinians (and all Arabs) as humans... with bigoted Trump-like objections from all sides of the Clinton Camp, especially the Albright reps. Down voted 5-8 (the one vote Barbara Lee voted with Clyntonians). West by this time was, in his kind of sleepy rich language looked ready to walk out. Zogby looked like he was going to break down in tears. The Clinton camp were all smiles... what i could see in their manner was laughing at the slaughter of Palestinian children, like blood dripping off their teeth in anticipation of further bloodbaths.

Down voted 6-7 about making it clear that "war as a last resort" included the teeth of being against no-fly zones and safe zones and more dead soldiers and civilians.

Then a bone cast voting for inclusion of Asians (including Arab-Americans) and Pacific Islanders as categories to be counted in the census. That was Barbara lee's amendment... my initial reaction is... wow, thats an easy way to get a list of all Arab-Americans and Muslims in the USA for a nice big data base for the stupid ass "No-fly, No buy"list or (tin foil hat?) idea of surveillance/intern camps. Nevertheless it passed unanimously.

At the last the motion to approve. First an objection by the native American activist Deborah Parker to making defeating Trump the most urgent part of the platform. "Shouted" in the same bullshitter syrupy sweet voices so as not to offend the Native American rep. I was hoping for at least a 5 to 8 vote against, and McKibben started as saying he would abstain. That would have opened the door to a minority platform. But no. Everyone, except Dr. Westt accepted two or three bones (we won some and lost others) and voted for a reactionary piece of sheep-dogging garbage to be sent on to the full platform committee.

Dr. West turned out to be the only abstention as the rest of everyone fell into line behind continued climate disaster, war, student debt peonage, discriminatory tuition, insurance run health care designed to limit health care instead of extend it, more and worse Gaza massacres and kissing Netanyahu's ass.

We got bike paths and native rights (the only excellent part of the platform, see if we can find a copy please).

If Sanders, or anyone else tries to tell us this is a progressive platform, or even more insane, "the most progressive platform" they should be chased off the fucking stage. Its a corporate sheep-dogging reactionary corporate/state platform guaranteed to destroy the planet from numerous angles and actions from spewing methane.

If the Demo Convention passes it in its present form, and continue with this reactionary, neocon, anti-environment, voter suppression and fraud against of Sanders 13,000,000 voters and all rural people, I would strongly urge a mass walk out from the convention and a non-violent street siege... after which the demonstration can just vanish back to the more local level to continue whatever the only avenues left might be. My hope is we make 1968 look like child's play and divide the right-wing corporate/state warmongering anti human, anti-planet "Democratic" Party into irreparable pieces. IMO we need the Greens, the Socialist Equality, the Working Families Party, Socialist Alternative, the Peace and Environmental Movements, the Student Debtors, the people who have been screwed over by ACA, immigrants and all else to somehow agree on post-convention action and make the election into a street and electoral referendum on state/capitalist military rule. After their treatment of Palestinians and Arab-Americans, the climate health and education, I SAY fuck you Democrats and Fuck you Trump!

You can find a blow by blow real time account by many watchers at The Progressive Wing: http://theprogressivewing.com/demplatform-committee-votes-down-15-minwag...