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mfcorey1

(11,001 posts)
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 06:03 AM Aug 2020

I have no respect for Nina Turner and Cornel West. Why do they even want

a seat at a democratic table? Turner is on one of the platform committees. She has no love for the DNC.

SEN. NINA TURNER AND DR. CORNEL WEST TO KEYNOTE THE PEOPLE’S CONVENTION
August 7, 2020

Contact:
media@peoplesparty.org

Detroit, MI — One week after the Democratic and Republican national conventions, Bernie 2020 National Co-Chair Sen. Nina Turner and Bernie 2020 surrogate Dr. Cornel West will join the Movement for a People’s Party to headline The People’s Convention. Turner will deliver a speech titled: Choice, Challenge and Change: The Necessity of a People’s Movement.

On Sunday, August 30, from 4-6 pm EST, thousands of Americans from all walks of life will gather to discuss the state of the nation at The People’s Convention. At the conclusion, participants will vote on forming a major new political party free of corporate money and influence.

The Convention will be digital and broadcast live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter pages with millions of followers, including The Jimmy Dore Show which will carry the convention to its nearly 800,000 subscribers on YouTube.

The convention will ask: “What kind of world do we want to build from the devastation of the pandemic and economic depression?”

It will feature speakers and a regional breakout session. There will be montages of the short, heartfelt videos recorded by hundreds of MPP’s 80,000 members across the country. Speakers will discuss plans to become the largest party in America in four years, including building local hubs and state parties, sending representatives to Congress in 2022, and winning the presidency in 2024.

Sen. Turner is the host of the Hello Somebody Podcast and former president of Our Revolution. She is a former Ohio State Senator and professor of African American history. Dr. Cornel West is the Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of 20 books, a frequent commentator on CNN, and co-host of the Tight Rope Podcast.

“It looks as if the system cannot reform itself,” said West of the American political and economic system on CNN in May. “Yes we must vote the neofascist catastrophe out of the White House but the neoliberal disaster who enters the White House must be fought with a people’s movement and party,” he said, accepting the invitation to The People’s Convention.

https://peoplesparty.org/the-peoples-convention/

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I have no respect for Nina Turner and Cornel West. Why do they even want (Original Post) mfcorey1 Aug 2020 OP
I can't put in words what I think of both of them. Cornell actually once was respected. Now... hlthe2b Aug 2020 #1
Who? Squinch Aug 2020 #2
Their whole ideology is based on Democrats being corrupt because of "corporate money and influence." betsuni Aug 2020 #3
They want to never have to change their narratve. delisen Aug 2020 #4
Arggh Gothmog Aug 2020 #5
They should call it the "never going to win an election" party BannonsLiver Aug 2020 #6

betsuni

(25,539 posts)
3. Their whole ideology is based on Democrats being corrupt because of "corporate money and influence."
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 06:17 AM
Aug 2020

Yet they never name names, never give evidence of this. It's all vague rumors. Blaming Democrats who don't have majorities in the legislature. It's all emotional, buzzwords like the ridiculous "neoliberal."

Hillary did emails and gave a paid speech and said a word in the nineties so is hopelessly corrupt.

delisen

(6,044 posts)
4. They want to never have to change their narratve.
Mon Aug 17, 2020, 06:39 AM
Aug 2020

And they seek followers not thinkers. They are in the place where politics has become religion.

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