Amy Goodman
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Keep Oil in the Soil: Bill McKibben on Being Named by Sanders to DNC Platform Committee
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May 26, 2016
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3:46Now PlayingBill McKibben was just named by Bernie Sanders to serve on the platform committee at this year’s Democratic National Convention. He joins Sanders’ other four appointmentsscholar and racial justice activist Cornel West; Native American activist Deborah Parker; Minnesota Congressmember Keith Ellison, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus; and Palestinian rights activist and scholar James Zogby, who founded the Arab American Institute. We speak with 350.org cofounder Bill McKibben about how he’ll seek to translate his activism into Democratic Party platforms in Philadelphia in July.
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