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We\u2019ve all heard the poem that goes:<\/p>\nWe\u2019ve all heard the poem that goes:<\/p>\n
\u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
\n\u2026 The best lack all conviction, while the worst
\nAre full of passionate intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are supposed to lament the \u201cbest lacking all conviction,\u201d but in my book, those who \u201clack all conviction\u201d hardly deserve to be called the \u201cbest.\u201d\u00a0 Rather than lamenting those tender sensibilities, let us rather embrace and exceed the \u201cpassionate intensity\u201d of the worst.\u00a0 It is time to make it our own.<\/p>\n
Consider the crumbling center that neoliberalism extols:<\/p>\n
\u2026 and \u2026 and \u2026 oh hell, you know all this.<\/p>\n
The foremost champion of this collapsing center is of course Hillary Rodman Clinton.<\/p>\n
The Establishment emits howls of agony over the \u201cpassionate intensity\u201d arising on its flanks, right and left.\u00a0 On the right, Donald Trump and his racist legions.\u00a0 On the left, the Bernie Sanders movement.\u00a0 Neither movement is going away.\u00a0 The means \u00a0\u2014 financial, political and moral \u2014 of liberal appeasement (restoring the center) are exhausted.\u00a0 Our only hope is that OUR passionate intensity can match and surpass theirs.<\/p>\n
The right can afford a certain degree of mindlessness.\u00a0 They can substitute dollars for brains.\u00a0 We on the left have no such luxury.\u00a0 Our passionate intensity must be accompanied by shrewd strategic intelligence.\u00a0 In plain English, we have to build an independent political force that can withstand the hysterical urgings of the moment and dig in for the Political Revolution.\u00a0 No matter how clever some Lesser-Evilists imagine themselves, this independent political force cannot be built under the banner of Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n
For us to actually build that force and win, the Black and Latino communities must be wrenched out of the grasp of the Establishment center.<\/p>\n
We can argue, and rightly so, that Hillary has won the nomination because so many millions of votes were stolen by a thoroughly rigged system accompanied by outright thievery.\u00a0 Yeah, we wuz robbed!\u00a0 True as far as it goes, if we only see the world through the lens of the electoral system in isolation.\u00a0 But it is indicative of this deeper strategic weakness \u2014 not merely in terms of votes, but in terms of social force, in terms of organized power \u2014 that has done us in, and will continue to do us in, if it is not addressed.\u00a0 If we cannot organize our poorest communities \u2026<\/p>\n
One leader who is filled with passionate intensity and has plenty of smarts is Cheri Honkala<\/a>, 53, a leader of the Poor People\u2019s Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC), Jill Stein\u2019s 2012 Green Party running mate, and lead organizer for a July 25 march on the first day of the Democratic Party Convention in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n For that work, Honkala has received numerous honors and awards:<\/p>\n In July 2000, a PPEHRC marched on the opening day of the Republican Party’s National Convention in Philadelphia, and drew 10,000 homeless and poor people from around the country, despite its having been denied a permit by city authorities.<\/p>\n Now she is at it again.\u00a0 This year it\u2019s called the \u201cMarch for our Lives,\u201d and given the stakes we are fighting for, it is all too literally a march for our lives.\u00a0 In an interview with St. Petersburg Independents, Honkala explained:<\/p>\n \u201cWe think this march is incredibly important, because Philadelphia hasn\u2019t housed anybody in about 9 months. \u00a0The city has closed over 40 schools, and there is absolutely no affordable housing here.\u00a0 We\u2019re the poorest of the largest cities in the country, and so we can\u2019t allow the Democratic Party to sweep these issues under the rug.\u201d<\/p>\n Yet, Honkala noted, $43 million dollars will be spent on security for the Democratic Party\u2019s nominating festival.<\/p>\n \u201cThe media and the city administration are still trying to play games.\u00a0 Ours was the only event that the city tried to deny a permit, hoping we\u2019d just go away, but we made it clear that we intended to march no matter what.\u00a0 Our last march was 10,000 strong, and we could easily double that.\u00a0 The organizing is going fantastic and we continue to rise to the top.\u00a0 We\u2019re getting ready to make a billboard that we\u2019re going to drag on wheels around the city, and we\u2019ve got people blanketing the entire city and on the phone every day making calls.\u201d<\/p>\n Winning that permit proved to be an epic battle.\u00a0 Honkala recalled in an interview with KPFA<\/a> :<\/p>\n \u201cFor pretty much 48 hours straight, we received a lot of pressure\u00a0 The ACLU kept telling us that the city wanted us to change our march route, wanted to change everything about our march. \u00a0I’m just very proud of the front line communities here. \u00a0They stayed very strong.\u00a0 So we have won the right to march on the South Side of City Hall at 3:00 o’clock, going all the way up Broad Street to the front door of the Democratic National Convention.\u00a0 We’re hoping that anybody who was afraid before will now come out in droves and join us. \u2026 We’re having several sessions of nonviolence training leading all the way up until two days before the convention. \u00a0We’ll have trainings before we step off on July 25th. It’s really important to us that the whole world understands that we’re a nonviolent movement.\u201d<\/p>\n Honkala makes plain that this is not just another protest.\u00a0 It is a fight for political independence from the two corporate controlled parties.\u00a0 As she told us:<\/p>\n \u201cLots of money is being tossed around in this town.\u00a0 We\u2019re watching some of the folks who were originally on the Bernie payroll taking flight to Hillary\u2019s payroll.\u00a0 That\u2019s a hard pill to swallow. \u2026 We\u2019ve started getting reporters asking to embed themselves with us.\u00a0 So we vet them, and they\u2019re turning out to be Hillary supporters.\u00a0 We have to be very careful right now.\u00a0 The job of the whole town \u2014 whether it\u2019s the church, the media, or the non-profit industrial complex \u2014is to slight any notion of political independence or any desire to move away from Wall Street.\u00a0 Their job is to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to compete with their massive piles of dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n Sanders endorsing Hillary was a blow to the movement, no doubt about it.\u00a0 But it puts the issue of independent politics front and center.\u00a0 It has become clear to only the most starry-eyed Sanders supporters that he will not be the Democratic nominee.\u00a0 Nor is there any chance of him running an independent presidential campaign.\u00a0 So what next for the Independent wing of the Sanders movement?<\/p>\n Honkala\u2019s bottom line has always been \u201cNo to Hillary.\u201d\u00a0 Even while the Hillary endorsement was just pending, she had said:<\/p>\n \u201cI think people are so devastated, from having spent all their time working on the Bernie campaign, from listening to the amazing things he\u2019s been saying. \u00a0Folks are deciding that they can\u2019t go backwards, back into the Democratic Party.\u00a0 They\u2019ve been joining the Green Party in droves, and linking up with Dr. Jill Stein [the expected Green presidential nominee].\u00a0 They just know they have to do everything possible to create the loyal opposition, to go forward with the future.<\/p>\n \u201cAnything in the direction of Hillary is a step back for the movement and for this country.\u00a0 Definitely, low-income and poor people know that that\u2019s all that that represents.\u00a0 They\u2019re not fooled by this.\u00a0 Just the other day here in Philly, there was a demonstration around the issue of deporting of immigrants.\u00a0 Whether we\u2019re talking about immigrant rights, the need for our schools, the teachers getting a contract, healthcare, the Democrats are going to try to figure out how to stamp it out.\u00a0 The Green Party is committed to making sure these issues are lifted up.\u201d<\/p>\n Still, the Sanders movement has a variety of options.\u00a0 Those desperately clinging to the Sanders aura want a write-in campaign although their votes, even when legal, will most likely not be counted.\u00a0 Many are committed to working on state legislative and congressional races, turning their energies toward electing those Sanders Democrats who had the courage to support Sanders back when the going was tough.\u00a0 Some are going Green all the way, and Jill Stein is now \u201chot.\u201d<\/p>\n Yet the Green Party itself is leaving the vast majority of state legislative and congressional seats unchallenged.\u00a0 So there are those who are both backing Stein while at the same time working for the most progressive local Democrats.<\/p>\n Honkala, though a dedicated Green, has no problem with that:<\/p>\n \u201cI think that whatever works, that\u2019s what we need to go with.\u00a0 We have to do both.\u00a0 We have to put our foot in a few different places.\u00a0 I\u2019ve always been in favor of doing things that are effective.\u00a0 I never hold on to one idea, particularly if it\u2019s not effective.\u00a0 The corporate party structure has been in existence forever, but it\u2019s still too early for us to be judging exactly what it is that\u2019s going to work.\u00a0 This is a very exciting time in history, but also a very dangerous time.\u00a0 We have to try a variety of different tactics and not become dogmatic.\u00a0 Run with what works.\u00a0 That means supporting whichever candidates we think are going to look out for the people.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that we have too much to lose to be supporting either Hillary or Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve just learned that Black Women for Bernie are now supporting Dr. Jill Stein, and many different members of the Equality Coalition are supporting her.\u00a0 Not a day goes by that some new folks aren\u2019t telling Dr. Stein that they are supporting her.\u00a0 That\u2019s really encouraging and exciting, and I do know that her campaign is trying to figure out how people can begin to engage in the kind of dialogue and discussions that we\u2019ve just been having.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reinforcements have begun pouring into the Stein camp following Sanders finally endorsing Hillary.\u00a0 According to the July 13 U.S. Uncut<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cSince Tuesday morning, the Green Party has received over $80,000 in contributions, over half of which comes from first-time donors, and half of which comes in the form of contributions under $50.\u00a0 Tellingly, about 615 of those contributions totaled $27, the exact number commonly trumpeted and solicited by the Sanders campaign during his revolutionary grassroots funding movement.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2019There\u2019s been an explosion of Berners coming in through every portal of the campaign, and it\u2019s really exciting,\u2019 Stein told US Uncut in a phone interview.\u00a0 \u2018There is so much courage out there to stand up to the marching orders handed down by the usual suspects.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n This is creating some turmoil within the Sanders campaign.\u00a0 Some still cling to hopes for a lawsuit that might overturn Hillary\u2019s lead in delegates.\u00a0 Others pray that Sanders has some mysterious secret plan to win the nomination, some 11th-dimension chess move, and all this endorsing Hillary silliness is just some clever trick.\u00a0 A Hillary nomination is simply too horrible for them to face.<\/p>\n For the record, Sanders himself has bent over backwards to avoid cultivating a \u201ccult of personality.\u201d\u00a0 But millions of followers, experiencing a real progressive political leader for the first time in their lives, are still waiting for more marching orders.\u00a0 Since we are treading unknown waters, that\u2019s hardly surprising.<\/p>\n There are Democratic Party operatives, some primarily loyal to the DNC, others loyal to Sanders, but rising in the ranks of the party, who want to squelch anything outside the Democratic Party box.\u00a0 They prey on that unsought \u201ccult of personality.\u201d<\/p>\n Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally in Portsmouth, N.H., Tuesday, July 12, 2016, after Sanders introduced her and endorsed her for president. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik) ORG XMIT: NHAH210<\/p><\/div>\n They are painfully aware, if not scared to death, of the spontaneous anger that the Hillary endorsement has engendered, the gut level \u201cfuck the DNC\u201d or \u201cfuck it all\u201d embodied in the \u201cNever Hillary!\u201d and \u201cBernieOrBust!\u201d battle cries.\u00a0 So they put out pathetic dreck like this piece touted by Tampa Bay for Bernie Volunteers from the Independent Thinker<\/a> that goes:<\/p>\n “Bernie Sanders just sent millions of poor kids to college. The campaign has lied to its own delegates, that any delegates supporting \u201canything other than Hillary\u201d can be prevented from going to the convention, since Hillary is ALREADY the nominee.\u00a0 Not the \u201cpresumptive nominee\u201d but the \u201cofficial nominee,\u201d based on Sanders having conceded the race.\u00a0 Which he has not done.\u00a0 Per one delegate:<\/p>\n \u201cIf I say anything other than Hillary, you realize I can be prevented from going to the DNC \u2026 And this could be the reason that Bernie was forced to endorse prior to the convention, because now if she is the nominee officially, Bernie delegates can be stripped of their credentials for opposing the nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n Then they dance around the meaning of the endorsement itself.\u00a0 They mask their subtle (or not so subtle) authoritarianism by relying on the atomized social character of the Sanders movement, and on the individualized, ostensibly anti-authoritarian \u201cdo your thing\u201d ethic inherited from the Occupy movement:<\/p>\n \u201cAre you voting for Hillary?\u201d \u201cAre you saying I should vote for Hillary?\u201d \u201cAre you telling the rest of us to vote for Hillary?\u201d \u201cBut Bernie did endorse Hillary, and if we\u2019re supposed to follow Bernie \u2026\u201d Oh.<\/p>\n The Sanders campaign had to move very far, very fast, to get to the strong position it holds today.\u00a0 The core of the campaign was an enormous top-down phonebanking operation that generated 10\u2019s of millions of calls.\u00a0 It was very effective, but it came at a price.\u00a0 What there was not time for was building more than a skeletal infrastructure.\u00a0 Anything other than recruiting more and more phone bankers was anathema.\u00a0 At one point, even lifting a finger for progressive candidates such as Alan Grayson or Tim Canova was denounced.\u00a0 The primary relationship for volunteers was with the national operation, not with each other.<\/p>\n On a conference call with delegates on the day after the endorsement, Sanders stated that he plans to create \u201csuccessor organizations\u201d to elect \u201clike-minded candidates at the local, state and federal level,\u201d hoping to back \u201cat least 100 candidates all across this country.\u201d<\/p>\n The July 15 USA Today<\/a> announced:<\/p>\n \u201cIn an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, the Vermont senator detailed plans to launch educational and political organizations within the next few weeks to keep his progressive movement alive. The Sanders Institute will help raise awareness of \u2018enormous crises\u2019 facing Americans. The Our Revolution political organization will help recruit, train and fund progressive candidates\u2019 campaigns. And a third political organization may play a more direct role in campaign advertising.\u201d<\/p>\n Structurally, the successor organizations will be like top-heavy foundations, or specialized campaign support groups.\u00a0 He does make a nod to independents:<\/p>\n \u201cSanders said he wants to make sure candidates receiving such help are, in fact, progressive. But they don\u2019t have to be Democrats.\u00a0 \u2018If you have some strong independents who would like to run, it would be my inclination to support them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n But it will be defined once again by the Democratic Party campaign structure.\u00a0 They are not set up to be mass membership organizations, and hardly democratic with a small \u201cd.\u201d\u00a0 The responsibility of the movement in general will still be called upon to give money and make phone calls.<\/p>\n Get this: \u00a0a volunteer is not a member.\u00a0 Volunteers have the power of \u201cvoting with their feet,\u201d doing or not doing what is offered them by an organization.\u00a0 They do not have the power to determine what is offered.\u00a0 A member, on the other hand, has not only the power to withhold, but also the power to define and determine priorities, to allocate resources, to choose their representatives.\u00a0 Current plans do not entail this qualitative transformation from volunteers to members, which in fact would be the true essence of democracy.<\/p>\n The current discourse is right now along the lines of \u201cvote for Hillary or not.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cVote for Stein or Trump.\u201d\u00a0 Good. \u00a0That dialogue has to happen.\u00a0 But what kind of \u201csuccessor organizations\u201d do we ourselves want and need?\u00a0 What is to happen to the volunteer lists in each state?\u00a0 What is to happen to the donor lists?\u00a0 Are we to be limited to being an appendage of the Democratic Party?\u00a0 Are we to jettison the independent wing of the independent movement?\u00a0 Such questions are \u201cout of order.\u201d<\/p>\n Bernie has consistently made clear that revolutions are made from the bottom up, not the top down.\u00a0 He has insisted that it\u2019s not about him.\u00a0 I take him at his word.\u00a0 But between Bernie and the local volunteers is a legion of operatives and advisers and consultants \u2014 born and bred within the Democratic Party \u2014 for whom top-down is just how it is done.<\/p>\n To be blunt, we can no longer afford to wait for the word from the top.\u00a0 They say \u201cWe are the change we need.\u201d\u00a0 Catchy slogan.\u00a0 So let\u2019s take it seriously.\u00a0 Those of us who are turning toward Jill Stein need to start planning how we are to go about this.\u00a0 Many are already giving money and signing up for the Stein campaign, working on its ballot access.\u00a0 Others are joining the Green Party itself.\u00a0 But for that to be effective, some level of coordination is required on our part, some issues need to be at least temporarily resolved.<\/p>\n First, the Green Party is in fact a federation of state parties.\u00a0 Some, like the New York Party, are very effective (their gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins got 5% of the vote in 2014 against neoliberal supreme Andrew Cuomo).\u00a0 Others, like in Florida, are comatose at best.\u00a0 Each state party has its own rules for affiliating locals.\u00a0 Its own issues.\u00a0 The Green Party does not run national campaigns.<\/p>\n The party is ambivalent about welcoming Sanders supporters.\u00a0 There is a calcified Old Guard that is comfortable with a small social club ambiance.\u00a0 They are feeling very threatened right now.\u00a0 Some are implacably hostile.\u00a0 Sanders\u2019 past votes on foreign policy, in their view, leave his ex-followers irredeemably tainted.\u00a0 The majority of Greens, however, welcome new blood, some tentatively, others enthusiastically.\u00a0 We can\u2019t be either shocked or disheartened by the negativity of a few.<\/p>\n It\u2019s called \u201cgrowing pains.\u201d\u00a0 In some areas, the party is quite feeble.\u00a0 At every level, having to integrate this large influx of new blood is quite daunting.<\/p>\n Finally, the Green Party\u2019s sprawling platform leaves room for a diversity of practical activity.\u00a0 Perspectives range from revolutionary socialist to utopian, from committed decentralist to outright anarchist, whose cure for urban poverty would be to have the poor growing backyard gardens and installing solar panels on their rundown apartment complexes.\u00a0 The core politic is environmentalist, but not exclusively so.\u00a0 Attitudes toward the Democratic Party range from treating it as the direct spawn of Satan to working with it as a tactical ally, especially in non-partisan local elections.\u00a0 Even the purest of the pure have to work with Democrats in non-electoral issue work.<\/p>\n There is a strong affinity between Stein\u2019s Economic Bill of Rights<\/a> and the general Sanders platform.\u00a0 The main programmatic difference between Stein and Sanders is that Stein is solidly anti-imperialist and Sanders is, to put it tactfully, much less so.<\/p>\n The Sanders movement has much to gain from the Green Party, including ballot status in many states, and an existing structure, at least on paper, that the Sanders movement has yet to develop outside its Phonebanking operation.\u00a0 The Green Party, for its part, could be completely revitalized.\u00a0 After the post-Nader collapse after 2000, the Greens are on the upswing.\u00a0 Some Greens are terrified by the prospect of the spoiler label should Stein do “too well,” but younger Greens no longer consider the risk of costing the Democrats an election to be the equivalent of drowning puppies.<\/p>\n 2000\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ralph Nader\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.74% Gaining the magical 5% of the presidential vote to gain major party status is not out of the question.\u00a0 Stein is polling at least 7% and is on the upswing.\u00a0 While articles like that in the July 13 Huffington Post<\/a> (\u201cBernie Sanders Just Made Jill Stein The Most Powerful Woman In American Politics\u201d) might be stretching things a bit, Stein is sending a sharp jolt through the American political scene.\u00a0 And just as the Sanders campaign was the right campaign at the right time, so the Stein campaign is now the right campaign at the right time.<\/p>\n A perilous time it is.\u00a0 Armed mobs in the form of Trump rallies.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton seeking a head-on collision with Russia in Syria and the Ukraine.\u00a0 Trumps calls for mass repression against Muslims.\u00a0 Hillary plans the massive expansion of the Surveillance State that Obama and George Bush have begun.\u00a0 As I have written elsewhere, there are No Safe Choices<\/a>.\u00a0 The Greens and the Sanders movement must come together as a single force.<\/p>\n As March for our Lives organizer Cheri Honkala states:<\/p>\n \u201cThe tipping point is here. The March for our Lives is more important than ever.\u00a0 From the recent police murders in Louisiana and Minnesota, to wars that are sure to kill women and children all over the world. \u00a0Suffragettes who went on hunger strikes, who were arrested for us women to be able to vote, didn’t envision a first woman president like Hillary. \u00a0Please join us. \u00a0This can be the year when a third party becomes forever real in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n We can Make \u201cindependent\u201d not just another word for nothing left to sell!<\/p>\n We\u2019ve all heard the poem that goes: \u201cThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold; \u2026 The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.\u201d We are supposed to lament the \u201cbest lacking all conviction,\u201d but in … Continue reading ![\"03honkala](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/03honkala-04.jpg\")
A part Cheyenne Native American from Minnesota, Honkala grew up in poverty, sometimes homeless, sometimes a runaway, and often institutionalized. \u00a0Over 25 years she has been a leading organizer of the poor and homeless, having founded the anti-poverty groups \u201cWomen, Work and Welfare\u201d and \u201cUp and Out of Poverty Now\u201d in the Twin Cities.\u00a0 Moving to Philadelphia, she co-founded the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.\u00a0 In direct response to Bill Clinton\u2019s draconian Welfare Reform of 1996, she created the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign \u2014 \u201ca network of over 40 poor people’s organizations from across the U.S.\u201d \u2014 organizing direct action by poor families to occupy Philadelphia\u2019s abandoned houses in defiance of the politicians and the police.\u00a0 In the course of organizing countless protests, leading marches, holding demonstrations and setting up tent cities, she has racked up over 200 arrests for civil disobedience.<\/p>\n\n
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Time for the Sanders movement to decide.<\/h4>\n![\"07stein\"](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/07stein.jpg\")
\u201cI\u2019d add that we Greens definitely have to start running more candidates and encouraging people to step forward and run on these different progressive platforms.\u00a0 We can\u2019t cry about it anymore.\u00a0 Like the slogan says, we actually have to \u2018be the change we\u2019re looking for.\u2019 \u00a0We\u2019re all pioneers in this process.\u00a0 At the same time, the Green Party has a structure that has been in place for many years.\u00a0 I\u2019m not in favor of having to create a whole new structure like the one that took us 25 years to build.\u00a0 I\u2019m in favor of finding ways to have the Green Party be the party it needs to be.<\/p>\n![\"Democratic](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/04sandersclinton2.jpg\")
\nBernie Sanders just saved millions of lives. …
\nSo why will she [Hillary] keep up her end of the bargain?
\nBecause she is driven by ego.”
\netc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cNone of your business!\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cI\u2019m not telling anyone who to vote for.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe would be infringing on our volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWe fight on, the political revolution continues. It was always about US, it is up to US to make this real.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"05nobody\"](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/05nobody.jpg\")
Insidious.<\/h4>\nOut of order.<\/h4>\n
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Joining the Green Party or even working with the Stein campaign is not a simple matter.\u00a0 They don\u2019t have a recruiting office we can walk into like the U.S. Marines have.<\/p>\nPresidential numbers:<\/h4>\n
\n2004\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Cobb\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.10%
\n2008\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cynthia McKinney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.12%
\n2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jill Stein\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0.36%<\/p>\n![\"08](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/08-poverty-kills.jpg\")
Philadelphia is where it can happen, with both the Stein campaign and the Sanders movement planning to be there in strength.\u00a0 They now have the opportunity to meet each other face-to-face and arm-in-arm in struggle, linked with the poor and homeless people of Philadelphia, against the bipartisan Establishment.<\/p>\nThe Time:
\n<\/strong>3:00 p.m., July 25, 2016<\/h4>\nThe Place:
\n<\/strong>Broad Street South of City Hall, in the City of Brotherly [sic] Love<\/h4>\nThe Destination:
\n<\/strong>The Front Door of the Democratic Party National Convention<\/h4>\nThe Event:
\n<\/strong>the March for our Lives<\/h4>\n![\"09march](\"http:\/\/lifeinspice.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/09march-for-our-lives.jpg\")
\u2014 Jeff Roby<\/em>
\n July 14, 2016<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"