by Richard Eskow | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mz1yuLegKI?start=1916&end=2599] This past weekend I spoke at "The People's Summit," a gathering of groups and individuals dedicated to building a longstanding movement out of the momentum created by the Bernie Sanders...
by Bill Scher | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Progressive Vision
The Washington Post recently highlighted the economic divergence between California and Kansas. California is tied, with Oregon, for the fastest growth in the nation with 4.1 percent gross domestic product growth in 2015. Kansas was flat, at 0.2 percent, and the...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 20, 2016 | Blog, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
Some politicians and commentators say that Bernie Sanders is losing leverage because he hasn’t conceded the Democratic primary to front-runner Hillary Clinton. To believe that is to misunderstand both the candidate and his supporters. Sanders received a mandate in...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 19, 2016 | Progressive Vision
After an intense weekend of speeches and discussion about the future of the progressive “political revolution” sparked by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, the People’s Summit ended Sunday with a charge to continue to keep “the Bern” blazing through a myriad...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jun 17, 2016 | Election 2016, Progressive Vision
If you actually read Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speech to his supporters Thursday – rather than the news coverage of it – you will immediately grasp the importance of this weekend's gathering in Chicago of about 3,000 progressive leaders and...
by Richard Eskow | Jun 17, 2016 | Blog, Progressive Vision
We live on. Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, we live on. We live on in the memories of those we leave behind. We live on in words, in gestures, in glances, in anything that changes the heart of another person forever. We live on in loved ones and in...
