My name is drew hudson, ill be moderating what may be the largest panel yet in netroots history. Apparently anybody can walk right up. If youve got a question at the end. No, thank you, everybody, for being here. Especially congressman elslison. So like i said e wewere a bigp and were here to talk about running from donald trump and running for our people. Were going to bring up a couple different issues. Because were a big group on the panel, ill keep questions very short and im mostly going to serve as a timekeeper. If you see me waving at you that means we would like you to stop talking and in 90 minutseconds going to run you over and stop you. Were looking at the question of how to outside of the Democratic Party platforms, things like the leap manifesto, lots of policy platforms and Climate Change, on race, on lots of different issues. How do those impact the way the people are running as candidates and how were interacting with them as candidates for office, as voters and citizen
Thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of climate activists from the around the country are converging in washington, d. C. , for the peoples climate march on saturday. Trump has already begun dismantling president obamas , legacy and revived the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines. He has also put Climate Change deniers in charge of several key agencies, including the Environmental Protection agency and threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the paris, the court. All this as scientists have confirmed 2016 was the warmest year on record. We will speak with 350. Org founder bill mckiobben. Physics is our enemy and it poses a different dish difficult time wit time limit. We have to have to work around trump one degree or another. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The state of arkansas on thursday carried out its fourth execution in eight days, injecting 38yearold Kenneth Williams with a t
Speak with Vermont Congressman peter welch, chief deputy whip of the House Democratic caucus. Thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of climate activists from the around the country are converging in washington, d. C. , for the peoples climate march on saturday. Trump has already begun dismantling president obamas , legacy and revived the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines. He has also put Climate Change deniers in charge of several key agencies, including the Environmental Protection agency and threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the paris, the court. All this as scientists have confirmed 2016 was the warmest year on record. We will speak withh 350. Org founder bill mckiobben. Physics is our enemy and it poses a diffefent dish difficult time wit timime limit. We havave to have to work around trump one degree or another. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , demomocracynow. Org, the war and pepeace report. Im amy goodman. N. The state of arkansas
Speak with Vermont Congressman peter welch, chief deputy whip of the House Democratic caucus. Thousands, if not tens or hundreds of thousands of climate activists from the around the country are converging in washington, d. C. , for the peoples climate march on saturday. Trump has already begun dismantling president obamas , legacy and revived the keystone xl and Dakota Access pipelines. He has also put Climate Change deniers in charge of several key agencies, including the Environmental Protection agency and threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the paris, the court. All this as scientists have confirmed 2016 was the warmest year on record. We will speak withh 350. Org founder bill mckiobben. Physics is our enemy and it poses a diffefent dish difficult time wit timime limit. We havave to have to work around trump one degree or another. Amy all of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , demomocracynow. Org, the war and pepeace report. Im amy goodman. N. The state of arkansas
Progressive caucus has always wee, for a number of years, have the annual progressive caucus budget that we put forth that is full of those big ideas trying to move the ball forward. Only giving us policy solutions that people are asking for but how we can help elect electorally. I will let each person kind of say whatever they want. We will have five minutes to make some initial comments. We will ask a couple questions by the panel. So first, i will go in order here that we have. I will start this way. We have the president of democracy and color. Next to her, from the 17th district in california. Joshua, a polling firm that works a lot with aggressive democrats. And next to me is the Vice President for research and policy. It helps a lot of us in the progressive caucus, Democratic Party, and candidates come up with great policy ideas. We will do this in the last panel. Start here. Down the row and then open up the conversations. Amy is the president of democracy and color. Amy good a