Single payer activists will join hundreds of other activists in Washington DC September 8 to 10 to discuss how to bypass the Democratic Party.
The People’s Convergence is being pulled together by Draft Bernie for a People’s Party, the Progressive Independent Party, and Socialist Alternative.
The groups will discuss two central questions;
What will it take to defeat the right wing and build a powerful left alternative?
Should progressives continue the fight to reform the Democratic Party or should we launch a people’s party independent of corporate money and influence?
In fact, the groups have already decided on question two.
Or as Draft Bernie organizer Nick Brana makes clear – “the Democratic Party is structurally incapable of becoming a people’s party.”
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)