{"id":1646,"date":"2016-03-04T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2016-03-04T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T20:08:53","slug":"super-tuesday-the-empire-strikes-back-but-the-rebellion-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/04\/super-tuesday-the-empire-strikes-back-but-the-rebellion-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Tuesday: The empire strikes back, but the rebellion lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Jill Stein and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jill2016.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jill2016.com<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Super Tuesday was a big win for oligarchy, as the Democratic Party establishment delivered over 60% of available delegates for Hillary Clinton and billionaire demagogue Donald Trump stomped to victory in 8 states.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the dominance of Clinton and Trump, the millions of votes for Bernie Sanders show that Americans are hungry for sweeping changes to a broken system that\u2019s throwing workers, students, the middle class and the poor under the bus.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Bernie and his supporters that we must take our democracy back from the billionaires, win economic justice for the 99%, confront the existential threat of climate meltdown, adopt an improved Medicare For All healthcare system, provide a welcoming path to citizenship, and end racist violence in our criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>On many issues, we must go further &#8211; for example, by canceling all student loan debt, urgently transitioning to 100% clean renewable energy by 2030, nationalizing the Federal Reserve, and reforming the electoral system with measures like proportional representation. And we must roll back the military-industrial-surveillance complex that is undermining our liberty and security while bankrupting us financially and morally.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jill2016.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jill2016.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jill Stein and Jill2016.com: Super Tuesday was a big win for oligarchy, as the Democratic Party establishment delivered over 60% of available delegates for Hillary Clinton and billionaire demagogue Donald Trump stomped to victory in 8 states. But despite the dominance of Clinton and Trump, the millions of votes for Bernie Sanders show that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/04\/super-tuesday-the-empire-strikes-back-but-the-rebellion-lives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Tuesday: The empire strikes back, but the rebellion lives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[13,12,10,14,17,8,11,16,15,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1648,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nebraskagreens.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}