As progressive organizations meet in Washington for the America’s Future Now conference, GRITtv looks at the role of the left in American politics and whether Obama has a progressive agenda. Darcy Burner, Executive Director of the American Progressive Caucus Policy Foundation, Isaiah Poole, Executive Editor of TomPaine.com and OurFuture.org, and Rick MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper’s Magazine on what the left’s strategy should be vis-a-vis Barack Obama.
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Thank you for this. It really is important to take a stand NOW! The process where (it seems) the more mainstream left keeps blacksliding because they think they have to negotiate in little steps to get anywhere is going nowhere. In fact they are walking backwards. It is okay to be confrontational, even in 2009. Is Darcy Burner a neoliberal in leftest clothing? People really are dying because of insurance company’s gouging them. How will they backslide on employee free choice act?
Thank you
By 50jmartin on June 2nd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
darcy burner is such a big disappointment – saying that the public isn’t in favor of single payer when it is the insurance corporations and corporatist dems in deecee who are against it.
laura and rich are great. thanks for this.
By selise on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:08 pm
p.s. is there a transcript available?
By selise on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Sorry, no transcript. But you can repost the video if you like.
By GRITtv on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
thank you for the reply. i may try to transcribe a bit — only because a transcription makes it available to people on dial up and also allows for easier commentary on specific statements.
By selise on June 2nd, 2009 at 2:30 pm