DeDurkheim

I assume, rather optimistically, that a large number of people, especially young people and people of color, were activated by the election campaign and that some of them are interested in continuing to be active even now that the election is over.

In this situation what can progressives do to advance the cause of fundamental reform in the U.S.?

I suggest trying to organize local activists to fight to move the Obama administration to the causes of people not corporations on specific issues: ...

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2) Government creation of a single-payer universal health insurance system asserting a "RIGHT TO HEALTH CARE" as a basic human right. The system should eliminate the wasteful private insurance companies and replace them by "Medicare for all." with its much lower cost and its elimination of exclusions based on "prior conditions." The claim that "entitlements" to medical care will create "unaffordable deficits" in the future is nonsense in an economy capable of doubling the real GNP in a generation, as it did in the period 1946-1976.