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[tommiesunshine]

#berniewouldhavewon #feelthebern #ourrevolution #stillsanders #sanders2020 #pplsummit #thesandersinstitute (at McCormick Place)

[frankwolftown]

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The Labout Party won 30 new seats in England. They won by standing up to the ruling class. #PplSummit

[ricodegall0]

Look at this kind and genuine couple who actually care about this country. 😍 Instead of making excuses and playing the blame game, they continue to focus on issues we care about. #pplsummit #ourrevolution #feelthebern (at Arie Crown Theater)

[haymarketbooks]

"If we can win, we must win!" -Naomi Klein at #PPLsummit

[punkecodavid]

#bronzeville #chicago #nearsouthside #africanamericancommunity #pauldunbar #africanamericanpoet #heroesofcolor #intelligentperson #pplsummit #lovethyneighbor #getoutside (at Dunbar Park- 300 E 31st St.)

[theyoungturks]

@nomikikonst speaking to Jane Sanders at the #PPLSummit 📷 @kevin_taghabon #TYT #TheYoungTurks https://www.instagram.com/p/BVSGuaClYPG/

[nitestar]

I'm sure you all remember this... @pppatticake @pplsummit @RedBeretsM4All @LumpyLouish @BernieWdveWon @briebriejoy @vgliatti @stphil @stevekrohn @GrassrootsJill @ggreenwald @Carlene_Meyers @LostDiva @OWS_ellie @proviewsusa @PatTheBerner @MeetMckayla @bourgeoisalien @shaunking https://bit.ly/33PiNo6

I'm sure you all remember this... @pppatticake @pplsummit @RedBeretsM4All @LumpyLouish @BernieWdveWon @briebriejoy @vgliatti @stphil @stevekrohn @GrassrootsJill @ggreenwald @Carlene_Meyers @LostDiva @OWS_ellie @proviewsusa @PatTheBerner @MeetMckayla @bourgeoisalien @shaunking https://t.co/RlEUL7UkIE

— Peter C. Frank (@NiteStar) March 27, 2020

via Twitter https://twitter.com/NiteStar March 27, 2020 at 12:44AM

[ruseg]

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So whoever addresses things like this head on- regardless of gender orientation or race - I’m with -@pplsummit http://bit.ly/2CCCou5

— John Cusack (@johncusack) January 2, 2018

[aspie98502]

Retweeted RoseAnn DeMoro (@RoseAnnDeMoro): Activist, NFL star, @pplsummit alum Michael Bennett wrongly arrested, police threaten to shoot him https://t.co/cM2aEvkU7u #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/8Z8ZOiV4i8

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[al-nava-sexy-revolutionary-mind]

Thank you (#Liberal, aka #Centrist) #BernieCrat, #LindaSarsour, for exposing yourself, #BernieCrats, and #Democrats as the pro-#war #WarMongers you truly are (during the 2017 #PPLSummit). 😮 We #Progressives (aka #LeftWingers) will defeat your corrupt #DemocraticParty because politically #enlightened people joined/ are joining the mass exodus #DemExit #resistance. ✊ The #Progressive (aka #LeftWing) #revolution solution to counter the #Establishment's #Democrat party is: #JoinGreen/ #GreenEnter, aka join the #GreenParty. 💪 #Politics. #PeoplesSummit/ #PPLSummit2017. #Resist the two-party system! ____________________________________________ Repost from @kennedys_mommi . - - (at Chicago, Illinois)

[roberteshelman-hakansson]

The Supposed Immutability of the White Working Class

Washington Post editorial board member and blogger Jonathan Capehart spoke this week with George Mason University’s Justin Gest about his new book "The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Age of Immigration and Inequality."

Gest, who attended Harvard and the London School of Economics, had this to say about the conditions of America’s white working class:

“The only way of addressing their plight is a form of political hospice care,” he told Capehart. “These are communities that are on the paths of death. And the question is: How can we make that as comfortable as possible?”

To me this was a remarkably clear articulation of a widely held belief, especially among liberals, following the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. The white working class, so the theory goes, is immutably racist and reactionary and the only solution is to allow this class of people to die of opioid or alcohol addiction, from cancer due to working in polluted factories, or suicide.

It strains me to find analogous treatment on the part of liberals toward a constituency, which had long been at the heart of the concerns of the Democratic Party and even made up a crucial portion of Obama’s winning coalition.

But there are, actually, analogies: Recall Hillary Clinton’s comments from 1996 supporting her husband’s efforts to pass draconian federal crime laws.

"Just as in a previous generation we had an organized effort against the mob. We need to take these people on,” she said in New Hampshire. “They are often connected to big drug cartels, they are not just gangs of kids anymore. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators — no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel."

No conscience, no empathy. Black, urban youth must be brought to heel.

In both cases, constituencies are essentialized and stripped of context, transformed from individuals and communities shaped by history to things genetically predisposed to racism or crime.

But also this week came a remarkably empathetic and revealing profile of the white working class by Margaret Talbot in the New Yorker. Talbot spent many months in and around Martinsburg, West Virginia investigating the rise of addiction in the community and how it’s responding.

“According to the Charleston Gazette-Mail,” she writes, “between 2007 and 2012 drug wholesalers shipped to West Virginia seven hundred and eighty million pills of hydrocodone (the generic name for Vicodin) and oxycodone (the generic name for OxyContin). That was enough to give each resident four hundred and thirty-three pills. The state has a disproportionate number of people who have jobs that cause physical pain, such as coal mining. It also has high levels of poverty and joblessness, which cause psychic pain. Mental-health services, meanwhile, are scant. Chess Yellott, a retired family practitioner in Martinsburg, told me that many West Virginians self-medicate to mute depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress from sexual assault or childhood abuse. ‘Those things are treatable, and upper-middle-class parents generally get their kids treated,’ he said. ‘But, in families with a lot of chaos and money problems, kids don’t get help.’”

The failure of Gest — and Clinton — to contextualize and explain becomes all the more obvious when reading Talbot’s account of Martinsburg.

Van Jones, who’s often an apologist these days for all that’s wrong with the Democratic Party, touched on the topic in Chicago at the People’s Conference.

Van Jones at #PPLSummit: Hillary Clinton didn't spend money on white working class or black people. "They spent it on themselves."

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 10, 2017

“White men in America already wind up being a little bit of a rhetorical punching bag for liberals and sometimes with good cause. I’m not saying there isn’t racism in the world,” he said. “But the only group in America whose life expectancy is getting shorter and not longer are white men in America.”

Little wonder, in light of liberal antipathy toward their plight, that the white working class might, however perverse it might seem, extend a middle finger to Clinton and the DNC and stay home on Election Day — or vote for a narcissistic billionaire.

[frankwolftown]

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Why we fight! #PplSummit

[ricodegall0]

♥️ this panel w/ Naomi Klein, Danny Glover, Jane Sanders, Katrina Vanden Heuvel and the awesome Amy Goodman! #democracynow #pplsummit (at The People's Summit)

[instapicsil3]

Bernie Sanders takes the stage to the cheers of thousands of progressives at the McCormick Center for the #pplsummit political conference. http://ift.tt/2rOArXS