{"id":6828,"date":"2017-11-17T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T07:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=6828"},"modified":"2017-11-18T00:02:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T08:02:01","slug":"6828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/11\/17\/6828\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement for a People’s Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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On last Thursday night\u2019s national call, we officially launched\u00a0Movement for a People\u2019s Party<\/a>! The next step in our movement is to create a nationally viable progressive party.<\/p>\n

Recent events have made the urgency of our mission clearer than ever. We now know that the Democratic primary was thoroughly rigged\u00a0against Bernie Sanders. We poured our hearts and souls\u00a0into his campaign and\u00a0we never stood a chance.\u00a0The Democratic primary was decided by a handful of party insiders in 2015, when the DNC signed an agreement turning over its “hiring, communications, research, and money”\u00a0to the Clinton campaign.\u00a0In doing so the Democratic party rigged the election of the most powerful country on earth to nominate the least popular candidate in half a century. A neoliberal\u00a0who promptly lost to a racist, sexist billionaire reality TV host.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Yet as result of last week\u2019s election, the establishment Dems feel\u00a0vindicated. Ralph Northam, the newly elected governor in Virginia, is a conservative Democrat who proudly voted for George W. Bush twice. Recently, he announced that he would sign a bill to ban sanctuary cities. New Jersey\u2019s governor-elect, Phil Murphy, is a former Goldman Sachs executive. In both states\u2019 Democratic primaries, the Dem Party successfully worked to eliminate the progressive candidate. The DNC and DCCC are\u00a0already stacking the 2018 primaries with\u00a0conservative Blue Dog Dems who are\u00a0safely in Wall Street’s pocket. They have spent millions of dollars shutting down progressives instead of taking on Republicans.<\/p>\n

They are saying loud and clear that “we don\u2019t need or want progressives.” We are saying loud and clear that “our people’s party is going to leave them in the dust.”<\/p>\n

Our MPP field organization is gearing up for the challenge. We have begun coalition building in several states. Alex, regional lead from Florida, spoke on the call about how Podemos in Spain built their coalition party. He is recruiting college students and Our Revolution members to MPP.\u00a0Aside from those constituencies, please reach out to DSA and local union chapters in your area and ask them if they would like to be part of\u00a0a coalition for a new progressive party. Each conversation with a potential ally brings us one step closer to\u00a0a society that fulfill’s Franklin Roosevelt’s dream of a\u00a0second\u00a0bill of rights and Martin Luther King’s vision of a universal basic income.<\/p>\n

To help with this first step, the MPP website will be up soon where you\u2019ll find our\u00a0Coalition Building Guide<\/a>, the\u00a0Potential Coalition Members<\/a>\u00a0submission form, and the MPP Organizing Guide. You can catch last week’s call\u00a0right here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s important to share the recent\u00a0groundbreaking Gallup poll<\/a>\u00a0showing that 61 percent of Americans are calling for a major new party that represents their needs, a\u00a0record high. You can also share last week’s CNN poll showing that the Democratic Party has hit a\u00a025 year low\u00a0in favorability<\/a>, 37%, making it as unpopular as Donald Trump. The Democratic Party has not been this unpopular since the internet was born.\u00a0MPP is here to answer the call of the majority of Americans who are\u00a0“desperate for a third major political party.”<\/a><\/p>\n

There was much activity on the media front for our launch. Nick was interviewed by Jimmy Dore, the Washington Post, IVN,\u00a0the Washington Times, the Huffington Post, and RT America News Live. For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, Nick will keynote the\u00a0Human Agenda Banquet<\/a>\u00a0in San Jose on Saturday, Dec. 9 and host an informal get together with supporters on Sunday, Dec. 10th.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for being with us on our first Movement for a People\u2019s Party conference call! We\u2019ve come a long way from our first Draft Bernie call, and you’ve made it all possible. We have a maniac in the White House and an “opposition party” that is privately\u00a0reassuring\u00a0billionaires<\/a>\u00a0that it has no intention of changing. It’s up to us to offer the American people a\u00a0viable progressive\u00a0populist alternative. If we don’t, the far right\u00a0or\u00a0the billionaires will exploit the situation to create their own\u00a0new party,\u00a0filling the tremendous\u00a0antiestablishment void\u00a0and taking\u00a0our\u00a0country in an even worse direction. The 2016 election was a grave warning of what happens when the right wing is the only one to offer an antiestablishment alternative.\u00a0We must prevent that warning from becoming foreshadowing.<\/em><\/p>\n

With the Democratic Party\u00a0working\u00a0furiously\u00a0to reel us back into incrementalism, we must hold fast to the principles that awoke\u00a0the political revolution, chief among them:\u00a0a party funded by the oligarchs can never represent the people<\/strong>. Many progressive movements before ours have gone\u00a0into the\u00a0Democratic Party with the mission of supporting only progressives. Slowly they have all morphed into “Blue no matter who” extensions of the corporate Democrats. We must refuse to lower our standards and tread the path that so many progressive movements already have.\u00a0We must learn from their mistakes and make this the moment that we declare our independence\u00a0– the moment we break free, build a people’s party, and usher in a 21st century progressive era.<\/p>\n

With love and gratitude,<\/p>\n

The Movement for a People’s Party team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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