People’s Convention

Nick Brana, the national outreach coordinator and first electoral manager with Our Revolution–writes seminal article in Huffington Post declaring that Sanders could be the Lincoln of our times and why Bernie should lead a new party.

Nick Brana founds Draft Bernie for a People’s Party with Sanders delegates, staff and super-volunteers.

Volunteers go to events every weekend nationwide and gather 50,000 petition signatures and create a Crowdpac that gets $750,000 in donations conditional on Bernie leading a major new party.

We hold a successful Convergence Conference in Wash. D.C. with Dr. Cornel West as our keynoter and Seattle city councilperson Kshama Sawant and Nick on the main panel. Jimmy Dore moderates. We hold a rally on the National Mall and deliver the 50,000 signatures to Bernie’s office.

Our supporters urge us to keep going as Movement for a People’s Party. We draft lengthy platform in consultation with experts in their fields. 

We launch as Movement for a People’s Party with Nick Brana as our national director and tens of thousands of supporters.

We organize direct actions, create local chapters, form relationships and work with volunteers, progressive leaders, academics, journalists and labor organizers to build the base of our organization and publicize the need for a major new party.

Our national organizing team spearheads direct actions at Congresspeople’s homes in support of our People’s Stimulus, a set of economic demands to help people through the devastation of the pandemic.

The People’s Convention is held with dozens of political thought leaders and activists, headlined by Sen. Nina Turner and Dr. Cornel West along with former Democratic presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Sen. Mike Gravel.