And as an organizer, I know we have to have a president, we have to have a vice president that we can work with. And as organizers, that’s the most important thing to get out of any presidential election, is a president that you can move in the right direction.But you’ve got to move on up from poverty. So I’m very hopeful.And I have no doubt that we can work with Joe. But you didn’t have Julián Castro, who we spoke to at the beginning of the week.
And remember what the president said, when asked. He’s a brother. It is always about our vision. Please do your part today.president of People for the American Way and former president of the professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University.This is viewer supported news. We do not accept funding from advertising, underwriting or government agencies. We do not accept funding from advertising, underwriting or government agencies. She’s an incredibly brave little girl. And in order to do it, you’ve got to talk about poverty. Kamala Harris’s sister, who introduced her, Maya, is the former head of the And so, while it’s not Bernie, and while maybe it’s not somebody else someone hoped for, what we do know is that these are people that we can work with. delivered to your inbox every day? Certainly. No, I look to the will of the people. And it is about the trend of the movement in our country. We’ve got my dear Brother Bob Avakian, Revolutionary Communist Party, and Carl Dix, all now talking about voting for Biden, against the fascist, but not fetishizing the vote, not thinking that somehow Biden is going to be this salvific figure or even Biden has principles and integrity that relate to poor and working people.Brother Ben knows that the mass incarceration regime, you had a whole lot of precious folk who went to jail who stuttered, because of Biden. Can we move Harris? Remember seeing those neo-Nazis and Klansmen and white supremacists coming out of the fields with lighted torches, veins bulging, spewing the same anti-Semitic bile heard across Europe in the ’30s. How is it possible that the only Latinx presidential candidate was not invited, when almost all of the rest of them were?I mean, here’s — and then Sister Linda Sarsour gets demonized and pushed out because she stands for Palestinians, she’s against the vicious Israeli occupation. I try to love everybody, you know. Ben and I have talked about this on the campaign with Brother Bernie.And what I would say to my good friend Dr. West, who’s inspired me literally my entire adult life, and who has been a real friend, the prophetic voice in politics must do two things. Please do your part today.This is viewer supported news. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. You can’t have a coalition of conscience and talk about human rights if you don’t come to terms with precious Palestinians under Israeli occupation. And we’re getting the unraveling of public life with the post office and a whole host of other public institutions, education, and we’re getting the inability to envision a substantive alternative to the present, so we end up tied to this nightmarish reality.So, yes, a vote for Biden as an anti-fascist vote, that’s different than in any way falling prey to illusions. I mean, the distinctive features of a decline of an empire, military overreach — 53 cents of every dollar is going to the military, 53 cents of every dollar in the city of Chicago goes to the police — militarism domestically, militarism abroad.
But however it’s come to be, however it’s happened, America is ready, in John’s words, to lay down, quote, “the heavy burden of hate” at last and to end the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism.For more on Biden’s speech and this week’s historic virtual Democratic convention, we’re joined by two guests.
We’re going to tell the truth about their captivity and their refusal to hit Pentagon money spending and militarism around the world, to hit Wall Street greed and to also speak substantively to issues of poverty.You can’t have massive protests all around the country, the largest in the history of the country, you can’t have Brother Barber and Sister Theoharis out there talking about poverty, and then, when you get to the convention, you get this spectacle that has nothing to do with wrestling with poverty.