You mean Bernezeula??
HT: Travis.
Posted on 06/01/2016 10:47:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Bill McKibben was just named by Bernie Sanders to serve on the platform committee at this year’s Democratic National Convention. He joins Sanders’ other four appointments: scholar and racial justice activist Cornel West; Native American activist Deborah Parker; Minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and Palestinian rights activist and scholar James Zogby, who founded the Arab American Institute. We speak with 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben about how he’ll seek to translate his activism into Democratic Party platforms in Philadelphia in July.
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AMY GOODMAN: Very quickly, before we end, Bill McKibben, I want to ask you about another issue. You were just named by Senator Sanders to serve on the platform committee at this year’s Democratic National Convention, along with scholar Cornel West; Native American activist Deborah Parker; Minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and the Palestinian rights activist and scholar Jim Zogby, who founded the American Arab Institute. Can you talk about what you want to see in the Democratic platform, what you’re going to be pushing for?
BILL McKIBBEN: Sure. I think my job here—I mean, I think, look, this is not my normal—you know, I’m more likely to be found outside protesting than inside, but Bernie has earned the right to ask people, I think, at this point, to help him. And so, when he asked, I said I would. And what I’ll do is try to focus on the things that he’s been talking about with climate and energy throughout the campaign, trying to close down as much as we can of this expansion of the fracking industry, trying to keep fossil fuel in the ground on public lands, the Keep It in the Ground Act that he co-sponsored, that Senator Merkley of Oregon wrote—things like that, that have been part of the reason that people have been rallying to his standard.
AMY GOODMAN: Would you call for a moratorium on fracking?
BILL McKIBBEN: Well, I don’t—I mean, I don’t know what the language will be or even quite what that would mean, but I think at this point the key is at least to keep it from growing any faster than it can. I wrote a long piece in the cover of The Nation about a month ago just explaining that what we’ve learned about the science over the last two or three years makes it extraordinarily clear that it’s not only desperately dangerous for people in their local communities, but also for the planet, because the leakage of that methane into the atmosphere, that CH4, is darn near as dangerous as what we’re doing with carbon dioxide.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, how would it translate into a platform to keep the oil in the soil? What exactly would you call for?
BILL McKIBBEN: Well, I think that the best sort of example of that we have so far is this Keep It in the Ground Act of 2015 that Senator Merkley introduced. In fact, I was up on the Hill the day that he introduced it. And Senator Sanders was there, as well as the other—one of the other co-sponsors. That’s a really powerful and interesting piece of legislation.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to thank you for joining us, Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org, scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College. We’ll link to your piece in The Guardian headlined "Let’s give up the climate change charade: Exxon won’t change its stripes." Author of many books, including Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist. He has been named by Senator Sanders to the platform committee of the Democratic National Convention that will take place in Philadelphia in July. And, of course, Democracy Now! will be there throughout. Thank you also to Anna Kalinsky, granddaughter of James Black, who worked for decades as a scientist at Exxon. He alerted the company executives to the original scientific findings of climate change in the 1970s. And she, Anna, questioned the CEO of Exxon yesterday at the Exxon shareholders meeting in Dallas, where she’s speaking to us today. This is Democracy Now! We’ll be back in a minute.
How about liberals putting their money where their mouths are.
Let them live in caves for a few years lighting their farts for heat and light and worrying about climate change.
The rest of us can use that wonderful black stuff from under the ground.
Cornel West,Keith Ellison,
And I thought presdient Jarret had packed HER administration with hard left radicals.
I can’t believe anyone who is still capable of rational thought could even think about supporting this nut job.
CRAZY Bernie
CRAZY Bernie
CRAZY Bernie
Only refer to CRAZY Bernie Sanders as “CRAZY” Bernie.
“Hey CRAZY Bernie please explain Venezuela. That is a nation that embraced SOCIALISM. You are a proud SOCIALIST. Will you do to the U.S. what Hugo Chavez did for Venezuela? Are folks going to spend hours a day in line for the most basic products? Why do you think Socialism is the way to go? Give examples where it works.”
I think youre just misunderstanding. Liberals view the world as Them and everyone else. For Them oil should be consumed. However, everyone else needs to get used to having much less or nothing at all. So, ‘keeping oil in the soil’ means you get less but their consumption will stay the same or increase. Does that help?
HE won the State of Oregon Dem Primary convincingly last month. And many others. If you say roughly 1/2 of Americans are engaged in the political system, and roughly 1/2 are Democrats, well he's pretty much tied Hillary, so 1/2 of them are Bern-outs.
1/8th of America are far left idiots, in other words. About 41 million actual supporters, and some big chunk of the other 150 million who don't participate in politics. It could easily be way over 100 Million fellow Americans are essentially Commie Scum, and even lots of Mommies (like mine!) are Commies.
No idea how you fix that.
The Pinochet principles applied here might work, or identifying and arresting Leftist leaders. He arrested 30,000 over the decade of the Dirty War in a nation of 10 million. Scale that up and we'd need to arrest 990,000 people, and interrogate them about their involvement in Leftism.
You mean Bernezeula??
HT: Travis.
Why am I not surprised that every one of the names listed (including Burnout) are anti-Americans?
For the crunchy gang-green eco-nazis, Bernie’s decision to add McKibben to his campaign seals the deal. Unless Hillary adds an even more radical enviornmentalist to her campaign, it will appear she isn’t serious about Mama Erf issues.
Just wow.... Bernie and his followers are increasingly becoming the most radical ultra-leftist political threat our nation has ever seen. As more of these libtard malcontent groups unite and join forces under the Bernie Banner, the likelihood of them resorting to violence grows. Just think of their reaction if Hillary and the democrat super duper delegates ‘steal’ the nomination, or worse (in their eyes) if Hillary is suddenly replaced with someone else and Bernie is tossed aside.
My son, who was surrounded by conservative economics while growing up, will likely vote for him! His wife, however, is is so far to the left, she passed Pluto a long time ago. What is really exasperating is that neither one will even consider discussing it with me. Their reason: You taught economics. Yeah, so what? If you believe in something, you should be able to discuss your position in a manner that supports it. Guess not...
So let me get this straight, Bernie . . . you're going to set up an agency or a czar to determine how many kinds of deodorant, and how much of it, can be permitted by law?
Will you do the same with toilet paper? I mean look how many brands of toilet paper there are. Shall we just set up a monopoly of one company, or better yet, a government monopoly, to produce exactly the right amount of toilet paper, or otherwise limit the amount of toilet paper that gets produced?
Are you going to hire Michael Gruber to be the guy who figures out the correct amount of toilet paper that people should be allowed to use? He's smart. He teaches at MIT. So why shouldn't we put him in charge of figuring out exactly how much of everything should or shouldn't be produced for the American people?
Have you been to socialist Venezuela lately, Bernie? They seem to have solved the problem of too many toilet paper brands. Because right now there is no toilet paper to be had at all in socialist Venezuela.
So tell me Bernie, what exactly will you do to feed starving children by reducing the amount of toilet paper we have in this country? And by the way, when you close all the toilet paper companies, how will the people who used to work at them feed their own starving children?
Bernie? . . . .
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