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Vote Your Hopes, Not Your Fears: Building the Green Party
Socialist Alternative, led by Seattle City Councilor Kshama Sawant, and others have called for Bernie Sanders to found an independent left party for the 99 percent and run as an independent, or to appeal to Jill Stein and the Green Party to join their ticket, despite Sanders's oft repeated promise to endorse the Democrats’ nominee. With little time left to get a new party on the ballot in most states, I looked into Green Party ballot access in the 50 states and spoke to Bruce Dixon, Georgia Green Party activist and Managing Editor of the Black Agenda Report.
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Bernie to Deliver Captive Constituencies to the Democratic Convention, 5/4/16 at
http://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-delivers-captive-constituents
which states in pertinent part:
"To absolutely nobody's surprise, Senator Bernie Sanders vowed to take his presidential candidacy all the way to the June California primary and the Democratic convention in late July, regardless of Hillary Clinton's insurmountable lead in the delegate votes which actually select the Democratic party's candidate for November."
"A full year ago I branded the Sanders campaign as a sheepdog operation, a gambit employed by Democrats whenever there's no Democratic incumbent."
[The Black Agenda Report of May 6, 2015 has a good description of all of the Democrats' sheepdogs at http://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary ]
"Bernie's supporters, the Democrats' captive constituencies, can holler at the convention. They can pine and petition for Sanders to run as a Green (legally impossible in most states) they can demand that Hillary do this and that. It doesn't matter. Corporate media and the Democratic party's rules have been exquisitely managed over the years to ensure that Hillary doesn't have to listen and she won't. The Democratic party has honed and developed its anti-Democratic procedures like the superdelegates for exactly this reason, so that captives remain captives and the wealthy call the shots."
"The noise about Bernie running again as a Green after the Democratic convention is utter nonsense. Many states have “sore loser” laws prohibiting anyone from running as a third party candidate after losing a Republican or Democrat primary. Most others have laws setting dates by which presidential candidates must file as Democrats, Republicans, independents or some other party. Many of those deadlines have passed already, and by the convention it will be legally impossible to get on the ballot in many states unless those states change their laws very quickly."
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On this website, you have read over and over again that Bernie Sanders is a warmonger, playing the traditional sheepdog role for the Democrats by mouthing decent phrases at election time on domestic issues to make sure we never vote Red or Green as that is the ONLY REASON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXISTS. There is NO OTHER REASON for 2 capitalist parties paid for by the same capitalist class and corporations PROUDLY SUPPORTING blood for oil wars abroad and the police state at home. The references are again repeated here, SO PLEASE READ THE TRUTH ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS so you know why WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DEMOCRATS' SHEEPDOG.
Democrats' Warmonger Sheepdog Bernie Sanders claims the US targeted assassination list is legal, a lie, and supports US troops in Syria. See Bernie Sanders Says US 'Kill List' Legal, Backs Troops in Syria, 4/26/16 at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bernie-Sanders-Says-US-Kill-List-Legal-Backs-Troops-in-Syria-20160426-0017.html.
Cindy Sheehan, a Peace & Freedom Party candidate in the past, has compiled the reactionary voting record of Sanders on 2/17/16, "Confessions of a Real Socialist" with lots of links at:
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2016/02/confessions-of-real-socialist-by-cindy.html
Barry Bush has his own listing of reactionary Sanders votes at:
http://www.facebook.com/BernieBarryBush/posts/1507933992860321
See photos & article at Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine by Tim Mak, 2/8/16 at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html.
The Myth of Bernie Sanders
by Thomas H. Naylor in Counterpunch 9/30/11 at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/
and
Bernie Sanders Is a Russia-Bashing, Pro-Israel, Militarist Tool at
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bernie-sanders-anti-russian-propaganda-and-vermont-socialism/ri8857
He also called Hugo Chavez, the late leader of Venezuela murdered by the CIA, a communist dictator, standard US capitalist war machine hatemongering. See
US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez by Steve Lendman, 9/19/15 at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/19/18777841.php
His support of US imperialism is outrageous and unconscionable. See
Does Bernie Sanders’ Imperialism Matter? by Shamus Cooke, 1/5/16
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-bernie-sanders-imperialism-matter/5499541
TO EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO BUILD A NATIONAL RADICAL PARTY, preferably a socialist labor party, WE BUILD ANY PARTY ONE PERSON AT A TIME, the same as we do any other organizing, including labor organizing. There is no magic wand, no knight on a white horse. The best way to build such a party is to do labor organizing or help those who can.
Today is the day before Vote by Mail officially starts in California, which is from May 9, 2016 to June 6, 2016, election day being June 7, 2016. In San Francisco, we have received our permanent vote by mail ballots. You can still sign up for these vote by mail ballots by going to your County Registrar between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, vote absentee (by mail) immediately and sign up to be a permanent vote by mail voter so you never forget to vote and can vote in the comfort of your home within 30 days before election day. You have until May 23, 2016 to register to vote for this election, and since that is in the near future, the best thing you can do is go to your Country Registrar as soon as possible, register to vote, vote absentee (by mail) and sign up to be a permanent vote by mail voter all in one visit.
http://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-delivers-captive-constituents
which states in pertinent part:
"To absolutely nobody's surprise, Senator Bernie Sanders vowed to take his presidential candidacy all the way to the June California primary and the Democratic convention in late July, regardless of Hillary Clinton's insurmountable lead in the delegate votes which actually select the Democratic party's candidate for November."
"A full year ago I branded the Sanders campaign as a sheepdog operation, a gambit employed by Democrats whenever there's no Democratic incumbent."
[The Black Agenda Report of May 6, 2015 has a good description of all of the Democrats' sheepdogs at http://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-sanders-sheepdog-4-hillary ]
"Bernie's supporters, the Democrats' captive constituencies, can holler at the convention. They can pine and petition for Sanders to run as a Green (legally impossible in most states) they can demand that Hillary do this and that. It doesn't matter. Corporate media and the Democratic party's rules have been exquisitely managed over the years to ensure that Hillary doesn't have to listen and she won't. The Democratic party has honed and developed its anti-Democratic procedures like the superdelegates for exactly this reason, so that captives remain captives and the wealthy call the shots."
"The noise about Bernie running again as a Green after the Democratic convention is utter nonsense. Many states have “sore loser” laws prohibiting anyone from running as a third party candidate after losing a Republican or Democrat primary. Most others have laws setting dates by which presidential candidates must file as Democrats, Republicans, independents or some other party. Many of those deadlines have passed already, and by the convention it will be legally impossible to get on the ballot in many states unless those states change their laws very quickly."
******************************************************
On this website, you have read over and over again that Bernie Sanders is a warmonger, playing the traditional sheepdog role for the Democrats by mouthing decent phrases at election time on domestic issues to make sure we never vote Red or Green as that is the ONLY REASON THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY EXISTS. There is NO OTHER REASON for 2 capitalist parties paid for by the same capitalist class and corporations PROUDLY SUPPORTING blood for oil wars abroad and the police state at home. The references are again repeated here, SO PLEASE READ THE TRUTH ABOUT BERNIE SANDERS so you know why WE WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS DEMOCRATS' SHEEPDOG.
Democrats' Warmonger Sheepdog Bernie Sanders claims the US targeted assassination list is legal, a lie, and supports US troops in Syria. See Bernie Sanders Says US 'Kill List' Legal, Backs Troops in Syria, 4/26/16 at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bernie-Sanders-Says-US-Kill-List-Legal-Backs-Troops-in-Syria-20160426-0017.html.
Cindy Sheehan, a Peace & Freedom Party candidate in the past, has compiled the reactionary voting record of Sanders on 2/17/16, "Confessions of a Real Socialist" with lots of links at:
http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/2016/02/confessions-of-real-socialist-by-cindy.html
Barry Bush has his own listing of reactionary Sanders votes at:
http://www.facebook.com/BernieBarryBush/posts/1507933992860321
See photos & article at Bernie Sanders Loves This $1 Trillion War Machine by Tim Mak, 2/8/16 at http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-loves-this-1-trillion-war-machine.html.
The Myth of Bernie Sanders
by Thomas H. Naylor in Counterpunch 9/30/11 at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-myth-of-bernie-sanders/
and
Bernie Sanders Is a Russia-Bashing, Pro-Israel, Militarist Tool at
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/bernie-sanders-anti-russian-propaganda-and-vermont-socialism/ri8857
He also called Hugo Chavez, the late leader of Venezuela murdered by the CIA, a communist dictator, standard US capitalist war machine hatemongering. See
US Presidential Candidates Demean Muslims and Hugo Chavez by Steve Lendman, 9/19/15 at http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/09/19/18777841.php
His support of US imperialism is outrageous and unconscionable. See
Does Bernie Sanders’ Imperialism Matter? by Shamus Cooke, 1/5/16
http://www.globalresearch.ca/does-bernie-sanders-imperialism-matter/5499541
TO EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO BUILD A NATIONAL RADICAL PARTY, preferably a socialist labor party, WE BUILD ANY PARTY ONE PERSON AT A TIME, the same as we do any other organizing, including labor organizing. There is no magic wand, no knight on a white horse. The best way to build such a party is to do labor organizing or help those who can.
Today is the day before Vote by Mail officially starts in California, which is from May 9, 2016 to June 6, 2016, election day being June 7, 2016. In San Francisco, we have received our permanent vote by mail ballots. You can still sign up for these vote by mail ballots by going to your County Registrar between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, vote absentee (by mail) immediately and sign up to be a permanent vote by mail voter so you never forget to vote and can vote in the comfort of your home within 30 days before election day. You have until May 23, 2016 to register to vote for this election, and since that is in the near future, the best thing you can do is go to your Country Registrar as soon as possible, register to vote, vote absentee (by mail) and sign up to be a permanent vote by mail voter all in one visit.
For more information:
http://www.blackagendareport.com/bernie-de...
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