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The initiative came about largely through the efforts of two organizers, Jack “Jackrabbit” Pollack and Shana East. Both had volunteered for Sanders in the Chicago area. East was hired by the campaign once it started ramping up its organizing efforts in Illinois. But in April, they decided they would have to step away from the Sanders campaign to foster a wider movement. “The Sanders campaign didn’t really seem to be interested in actually working with the grass roots,” Pollack said. “Once Shana and I realized that that was the case, we figured that for the political revolution that Bernie had been calling for since the beginning of his campaign, it was really essential that we be building for something, toward something. We were kind of giving a form and a framework to a movement that is currently very amorphous.” “The reality is that Bernie, if you really listened to his speeches and the things that he said over the course of the campaign, he never actually said ‘I’m leading this movement,'” Pollack continued. “I think the mistake that a lot of people have been making is to think that they needed to look to him for this movement. The movement is us.”

The Real History Of July 4th Builds Our Power

NEWSLETTER AUSTERITY, COLONIALISM, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, DEMOCRACY, FINANCE AND THE ECONOMY, FOURTH OF JULY, INDEPENDENCE, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, NEO-LIBERALISM, NONVIOLENCE, SLAVERY,WARS AND MILITARISM By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Above: Colonialists pull down statue of King George. Official holidays in the United States tend to reinforce false historical…

Interview with Cpt. Ray Lewis at #NatGat

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