Dr. Cornel West talks a lot about Democrats rolling over for corporations like Gas and energy and the TPP. What he leaves out in this discussion is the the fact his sponsors include those very same polluting Gas and Energy Companies involved in fracking and being corporate supporters of TPP. Several sponsors of Dr. West school, Cornel West Academy are the very thing Bernie Sanders supporters are opposed. From corporations in the fight against minimum wage increase, to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), to Fracking; Dr. Cornel West is personally benefiting from these very same corporations. From McDonald’s and the fight for $15, to Progress Energy (Duke Energy) major frackers and pollution; to IBM who is on record supporting TPP, the hypocrisy is outstanding on Dr. West’s part. This is the litmus test West gives to Democrats, but apparently the same doesn’t apply to Dr. West.
When it came down to a vote on the Democratic National Party Platform, Dr. Cornel West chose to abstain his vote because he said it was for moral reasons. Instead of moral reasons, how about the fact Dr. West big time corporation sponsor is an ardent supporter of TPP and looks forward to benefiting from it. In-spite his accusation against the DNC platform, Cornel West abstaining his vote helped his corporate sponsor, IBM and fracker, Progress Energy (Duke Energy) ; while allowing him to keep up the façade of bad corporation.
Following statement from West found in a post by Common Dreams states:
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/25/betraying-progressives-dnc-platform-backs-fracking-tpp-and-israel-occupation
Citing these “moral failures” of the platform draft, West abstained during the final vote to send the document to review by the full Platform Committee next month in Orlando, Florida.
“If we can’t say a word about TPP, if we can’t talk about Medicare-for-All explicitly, if the greatest prophetic voice dealing with pending ecologically catastrophe can hardly win a vote, and if we can’t even acknowledge occupation… it seems there is no way in good conscience I can say, ‘Take it to the next stage,'” West declared before the assembly.
“I wasn’t raised like that,” he said. “I have to abstain. I have no other moral option, it would be a violation of my own limited sense of moral integrity and spiritual conscience,” adding, “That’s how I roll.”
While abstaining a vote on TPP; West voted in favor of a moratorium that would ban fracking as a part if the DNC platform. Dr. West corporate sponsor, Progress Energy is a Fortune 500 company that is the subsidiary of Duke Energy. Like its parent company Duke Energy both know something about polluting the community and fracking. Both are major frackers.
Following statement from IBM supporting TPP:
IBM – Christopher A. Padilla, Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs:
“IBM is pleased an agreement has been reached in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations. Data is the lifeblood of the 21st century economy, and we understand this agreement contains groundbreaking provisions to safeguard the free movement of data across borders. Government-imposed barriers have long plagued the free global movement of farm goods and manufactured products, with trade agreements trying to break old log jams. The TPP is a forward-looking trade pact that seeks to limit obstacles to digital data flows even before they can take root. IBM looks forward to release of the final text of the agreement, and anticipates lending its strong support to the TPP.” [10/5/2015]
The Family Resource Center which has many donors from big to small donors, its major donor is Boeing. Boeing sits on the Board of Directors for the Family Resource Center. Also sitting on the boars Wells Fargo and other Banking industries.
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Governance Board
President
Laura Holt
St. Luke’s Hospital
President-Elect, Treasurer
Matt Harvey
RSM
Vice President-Development
Jan L. Hess
St. Luke’s Hospital
Vice President-Human Resources
Susan Stith
Express Scripts
Vice President-Programs
Christopher Reid
Thompson Coburn LLP
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Juliane M. Praiss
Boeing
Gwendolyn Belle
Wells Fargo Advisors
Ken Cella
Edward Jones
Wendy Chambers
The Hudson’s Bay Company
Brian Clevinger, PhD
Prolog Ventures, LLC
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Goldstein & Pressman, PCSalvador Hernandez
Enterprise Holdings, Inc.Anne H. Herzog
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Duke ManufacturingMuthoni Musangali, PhD
Webster UniversityEarl Ming
Alberici Construction
Tina Shannon
Ameren Missouri
Rick Wessel
Mercer
Advocacy Board
Anna Mayer Beck
Honorary Consult of Germany
Catie Beykirch
Boeing
Dean Boeschen
Husch Blackwell
Satonya L. Booker
Emed Medical Company
Valori Bring
Boeing
Stephen J. Burrows
Kent A. Chancellor
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Dannae Delano
The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC
Sherry B. Delo
Delo Advisors/Securities America
Thomas L. Ferris
Watlow
Andrea P. Frazier
A Frazier and Associates LLC
Sarah Fuhrmann
Cindy S. Handy
John D. Heithaus
Ernst & Young
Phyllis A. Hoff
CBIZ Human Capital Services
Nathan Holt
Krilogy Financial
Christine Homan
Henry A. Jubel Foundation
Donald G. Imholz
Centene Management Company
John J. Irace
Packaging Concepts, Inc
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