so I add here this article from Juan Cole's blog:
Dissing Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israeli Occupation

I don't want to excerpt, read the whole thing for yourself, sigh, ok ...

During a 9-hour meeting in St. Louis, Missouri on Friday, members of the DNC’s platform drafting committee voted down a number of measures proposed by Bernie Sanders surrogates that would have come out against the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), fracking, and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. At the same time, proposals to support a carbon tax, Single Payer healthcare, and a $15 minimum wage tied to inflation were also disregarded.

In a statement, Sanders said he was “disappointed and dismayed” that representatives of Hillary Clinton and DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schulz rejected the proposal on trade put forth by Sanders appointee Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), despite the fact that the presumed nominee has herself come out against the 12-nation deal.

“Inexplicable” was how Sanders described the move, adding: “It is hard for me to understand why Secretary Clinton’s delegates won’t stand behind Secretary Clinton’s positions in the party’s platform.”

The panel also rejected amendments suggested by 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, another Sanders pick, that would have imposed a carbon tax, declared a national moratorium on fracking as well as new fossil fuel drilling leases on federal lands and waters.
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According to Gosztola’s reporting on the exchange, Dr. Cornel West lambasted the aforementioned panel members, particularly Browner, for “endorsing reform incrementalism” in the face of an urgent planetary crisis.

“When you’re on the edge of the abyss or when you’re on that stove, to use the language of Malcolm X, you don’t use the language of incrementalism. It hurts, and the species is hurting,” West said.

Other progressive policies were adopted piecemeal, such as the $15 minimum wage, which the committee accepted but without the amendment put forth by Ellison that would have indexed the wage to inflation.
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“The committee defeated an amendment by Sanders supporter James Zogby that would have called for providing Palestinians with ‘an end to occupation and illegal settlements’ and urged an international effort to rebuild Gaza,” AP reports, measures which Zogby said Sanders helped craft.
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Citing these “moral failures” of the platform draft, West abstained during the final vote to send the document to review by the full Platform Committee next month in Orlando, Florida.

“If we can’t say a word about TPP, if we can’t talk about Medicare-for-All explicitly, if they greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can’t even acknowledge occupation… it seems there is no way in good conscience I can say, ‘Take it to the next stage,'” West declared before the assembly.

“I wasn’t raised like that,” he said. “I have to abstain. I have no other moral option, it would be a violation of my own limited sense of moral integrity and spiritual conscience,” adding, “That’s how I roll.”

Roll on. Mr. West. People might not like West's rhetoric, but content wise I still consider what he says the way I said once here: This Brother Speaks for me - A principled Black Leftist.

I remember how amazed I was back then of the push-back. I think it was the beginning of the end of something for me back then with regards to TOP.

Tim is a Berniecrat, who, like Bernie does not take corporate or Pac money. He supports the Progressive Berniecratic agenda down the line. Tim has shown up DWS for the cowardly, lying shill that she is. DWS has refused to debate Tim, who is an activist for social causes and a law professor. For what it's worth, I have donated to Tim's campaign. I wish him success in his quest to eliminate DWS from the body politic. I am sure HRC will reward her for being a loyal soldier providing Medusa herself isn't modeling a new orange pants suit before the GE.

why would her minions be for it? Bernie needs to set a meeting with Jill Stein before the convention. Make sure the meeting is widely publicized. It will give him leverage, but I think him trying to reform the party from within is a lost cause. It's time to make another donation to Jill.