Katrina vanden Heuvel: Creating a Viable Progressive Movement

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Katrina vanden Heuvel: Creating a Viable Progressive Movement
Nation in the News on February 2, 2012 - 2:13pm ET


Listen: http://www.thenation.com/blog/166041/katrina-vanden-heuvel-creating-viable-progressive-movement


The Nation's editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel appeared on Voices from the Frontlines Radio to discuss what it would take to build a progressive grassroots movement and bring about actual change in America.

Vanden Heuvel lists some of the many challenges a successful movement would have to overcome, from building political support to bridging the partisan gap. Yet she also cites causes for optimism, such as the Occupy movement, which she calls "the most serious and sustained national conversation we've had in too long," and the significant impact Occupy has already had on President Obama and our political discourse.

—Elizabeth Whitman

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1. wonder where she's been

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3. Huh? She's been writing a column for The Nation and the Washington Post, like always.

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4. yeah I know

but I just think we already have a viable progressive movement in Occupy and kind of see her as jumping on that wagon a little after it left town. Since her site changed, I just don't find her to be a "progressive" source anymore.

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2. Thank you, KVH, for identifying what a force the Occupy movement has been in

catapulting the progressive message.

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5. The greatest challenge

to a viable progressive movement imo is the Democratic Party establishment has a greater incentive to kill it than the GOP does.