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These are the 'Awesome-5' Bernie selected for the DNC Platform Drafting Committee. (The rules committee). Some call them the "Change Gang"!
Dr. Cornel West - Philosopher, social activist, prominent member of Democratic Socialists of America
Deborah Parker - Activist bridge between Native tribes and federal government & Violence Against Women Act
Keith Ellison - Congress member from Minnesota, Co-Chair Congressional Progressive Caucus, First Muslim elected to U.S. Congress
Bill McKibben - Environmentalist, author and journalist regarding impact of global warming, from Vermont
James Zogby - Founder and President of the Arab American Institute, advocates for balanced policy in regards to Palestine and Israel.
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This exciting group of 5-progressive people Bernie selected to be part of the 15 that make up the Platform Drafting Committee, which I think is for the Convention Platform, not the National Committee's platform. If you know, please comment. We seem to have one acronym for two functions: DNC.
Jubilant18
(62 posts)I am proud to be supporting the candidate who named them.
I'm still looking forward to voting for Bernie in CA on June 7!
Here is a link to Wikipedia about the DNC and the party platform. It's not totally clear but I think it shows that the platform committee writes the policies for the national Democratic Party.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Committee
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)You are right, it still is not clear if the Convention DNC is writing the rules for the Convention only or for the Democratic Party's platform.