The People's Convergence had their um, convergence, last weekend. A couple reports follow, one from the Green Party, one from the World Socialist website.
(Link to People's Convergence website - http://convergence2017.org/)
I was originally writing this as a comment to "Russian Trolls Fooled Sanders Voters, Including on Here" when I got carried away and realized I had written an essay of my own...
So why should we create a new party if we've already got the Green Party?
Please take a look at the newest piece in Counterpunch, The Stein Campaign and the Fight for Green Party Independence by Brandy Baker. Please give this piece a solid read before commenting.
I wrote a diary Saturday discussing a proposal for a new political party.
For the Mathematically and/or Integrity Challenged:
Jill Stein (and her voters) are being blamed for causing Hillary Clinton to lose to Trump. Lets see if that is even possible. I used data from the Politico website...there are probably variations in the "official" vote total at this point, and if you manage to find one that is enough different from this one to make a difference, then I would like to see it. For now, I have gone through every state via the Politico website, and these are the results I found.
I voted for Jill Stein when she ran against Obama, gave money to Bernie when he ran in the primary, voted for Stein and other Greens by mail awhile back.
Like others here still not happy with the way things turned out with the Sanders campaign and especially not happy with how the DNC did what they did.
Found a new Dutch documentary via Twitter today that was interesting.
A single free association photo essay centered in North Africa.
I am sick of USA and Europe colonizing and destroying the planet for profits and demonizing our people and revolutionary movements.
Robin Laverne Wilson
http://www.robinforsenator.com/
Now, I doubt I would vote for this woman if we had a good senator, the likes of a Merkeley or a Sanders, but I would love to see Deep Stater Schumer, if not loose the election-- one must be realistic--at least not win overwhelmingly.
The point here is that one's protest vote does not need to stop with the presidential section on the ballot.
