{"id":10683,"date":"2016-09-07T12:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2016-09-07T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T17:45:45","slug":"larry-hamm-danny-glover-discuss-how-to-carry-bernie-sanders-progressive-agenda-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/larry-hamm-danny-glover-discuss-how-to-carry-bernie-sanders-progressive-agenda-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Larry Hamm & Danny Glover discuss how to carry Bernie Sanders’ progressive agenda forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: democracynow.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>In a Democracy Now! interview, Larry Hamm and Danny Glover share their thoughts on how to carry forward the progress Bernie Sanders’ made during his presidential campaign toward swinging the Democratic Party back to a progressive political agenda (which it lost touch with some time ago).<\/p>\n

And by the way, both gentleman plan to vote for Hillary Clinton in November.<\/p>\n

LARRY HAMM: Yes. I\u2019m going to follow the guidance of the standard-bearer Bernie Sanders, and I\u2019m going to vote for Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s a choice between neofascism, Donald Trump, and neoliberalism, Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump must be defeated, and not just defeated, he must be defeated decisively. There must be a repudiation of these ultra-right-wing and fascist tendencies that are supporting him and that are in his movement. The struggle against neoliberalism, which has been going on for the past 40 years, will continue after November the 8th.<\/p>\n

And the Bernie Sanders movement is at a critical stage. Bernie Sanders did something that was tremendous in the political arena. He widened the space for progressive politics. But more than that, he proved that there is a critical mass of people in the United States that will support progressive, even radical, politics. And the challenge at this point is for all of those forces\u2014because there\u2019s one force. There\u2019s the Bernie Sanders movement vis-\u00e0-vis the Democratic Party and the establishment and corporate leadership of that party, but within the Bernie Sanders movement itself, there are many tendencies. The question is: Are those tendencies going to be able to resolve their contradictions to the point\u2014not eliminate them, but at least modify them to the point that they can hold together and keep this movement going? Or are they going to explode, explode and that movement go the way of the Rainbow Coalition movement, of which I was a part, after the Jesse Jackson campaign of 1988?<\/p>\n

This is a very critical movement. The progressive genie\u2014the genie of progressive politics is out of the bottle. There are powerful forces that want to put that back in. They want Bernie Sanders and his movement to go away. They want to return as business as usual. And our job is to make sure that that does not happen.<\/p>\n

DANNY GLOVER: Yeah, I mean\u2014<\/p>\n

AMY GOODMAN: Danny Glover?<\/p>\n

DANNY GLOVER: Larry said it perfectly, in the sense, what we do beyond the 9th of November is the most important thing that we\u2019ll do in our lives right here. The work that we do, the way in which we nurture new leadership, the way in which we use progressive politics and get progressive leaders elected to local, regional government, national government, that those are the things that we\u2019re going to do, in a sense.<\/p>\n

But we have to really continue to understand the dialectics that we\u2019re dealing with, and understanding that the dialectics are always changing in this situation. We\u2019ve got to find a way. And as we bring this movement forward, it also uses its insight and imagination in the idea of transformation. Dr. King always talked about transformation and the need for not only us to transform the institution which govern us, the institution, but to transform ourselves. What does that transformation look like? What does it look like? What does it look like when we talk about environmental racism? What does it look about when you talk about the planet itself? What does it look like? What are all the things that we have to be talked about?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a Democracy Now! interview, Larry Hamm and Danny Glover share their thoughts on how to carry forward the progress Bernie Sanders’ made during his presidential campaign toward swinging the Democratic Party back to a progressive political agenda (which it lost touch with some time ago). And by the way, both gentleman plan to vote … <\/p>\n

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