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DESCRIPTION:Book presentation and discussion by TOM GALLAGHER\n \nHow is it that Bernie 
 Sanders, the longest-serving Independent in U.S. congressional history, has 
 come to run for president in the Democratic primaries?  \n\nThe Primary 
 Route covers the same history and politics that Sanders had to consider in 
 reaching his decision: 150 years of third-party presidential candidates, a 
 century of presidential primaries, successive conventions and platforms, 
 the labor movement, and divisive social issues. The book argues that the 
 history of the American left has been much like the story of the proverbial 
 donkey stranded between two bales of hay, constantly pulling in two 
 opposite directions: toward third parties on one hand, and the Democratic 
 Party on the other. This has placed progressives in a political impasse 
 from which we perpetually struggle to escape.\n\nWith his candidacy, 
 Sanders has acknowledged that the route to relevance for American 
 progressives has long been hiding in plain sight: through the presidential 
 primaries. The challenge for the future is to make sure that we know how to 
 use this electoral process to assume a leading role in American 
 politics.\n\n- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n\nLongtime political and antiwar 
 activist Tom Gallagher served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives 
 before moving to San Francisco, where he lives in the Bernal Heights 
 neighborhood. He has served as president of the local Democratic Club and 
 chairs the San Francisco chapter of Progressive Democrats of America.\n 
 \nGallagher’s articles and reviews have appeared in the Boston Globe, 
 Boston Herald, Common Dreams, Dissent, In These Times, LA Weekly, Los 
 Angeles Review of Books, San Francisco Chronicle, Moscow Times, and many 
 other print and online publications. Before The Primary Route, he authored 
 Sub: My Years Underground in America’s Schools.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/10/18778684.php
SUMMARY:THE PRIMARY ROUTE How the 99 Percent Takes On the Military-Industrial Complex
LOCATION:St. Cyprian’s Episcopal Church\n2097 Turk St. (at Lyon), San Francisco\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/10/18778684.php
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