SAM ROSENTHAL

SAM ROSENTHAL, Political Director of RootsAction

Sam Rosenthal, who was at the Democratic Convention in   Chicago last week, will give us a behind-the-scenes look at what transpired   there — as well as what happened in the streets with protests against U.S.   funding and supplying weapons to Israel while the people in Gaza continue to   be massacred.

We will also talk about RootsAction campaigns and Sam’s   role in this national progressive organization.

RootsAction was founded in 2011 by two longtime   progressive advocates and journalists, Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen. As they   said, "We need a fresh approach to defend the public interest and expand   social justice. Our country faces an increasingly extremist Republican   Party that is largely a subsidiary of corporate America, and a Democratic   Party whose leadership is enmeshed with and compromised by corporate power.

RootsAction has been strongly endorsed by such respected,   independent-minded progressives as Jim Hightower, the late Barbara   Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr.,   Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Frances Fox Piven, the   late Phil Donahue, and many others.

SAM ROSENTHAL is an organizer and   researcher based in Washington, DC. He previously served as the political   director at Our Revolution and in elected leadership with Central Brooklyn   Democratic Socialists of America.

Don’t miss an inside look at the Democratic Convention,   the streets outside the hall, and learn what’s next for this super active   progressive organization!