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GoLeft TV

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Fri Sep 20, 2013, 09:38 AM Sep 2013

Papantonio: Victories For Organized Progressives

The progressive community is celebrating a string of recent victories – they defeated Larry Summers, they stopped a war in Syria, and they have a true populist candidate one step closer to being elected Mayor of New York City. All of these victories came from progressives getting angry and then organized, and the results are huge for this country. Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio discusses how how progressives are making their voices heard with author John Nichols.





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Papantonio: Victories For Organized Progressives (Original Post) GoLeft TV Sep 2013 OP
K&R! It is true that we the people can still influence the direction things take politically! Dustlawyer Sep 2013 #1
the only way the political class will listen!? BillyRibs Sep 2013 #2

Dustlawyer

(10,497 posts)
1. K&R! It is true that we the people can still influence the direction things take politically!
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 10:31 AM
Sep 2013

To get the big changes that they talk about at the end of the 2nd segment will require MASSIVE PROTESTS that I do not believe will arise in the near future absent some equally big, negative event.

 

BillyRibs

(787 posts)
2. the only way the political class will listen!?
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 07:01 PM
Sep 2013

Is when they face the unemployment line filled with People holding pitchforks and torches.
POWER YEILDS NOTHING! It must be wrest from them.

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