Cenk Uygur
Cenk Uygur
JournoList
Cenk Uygur, of The Young Turks, was an identified member of JournoList - an email group of approximately 400 "progressive" and socialist journalists, academics and "new media" activists.
Note: Uygur has denied that he was a member of JournoList.
JournoList members reportedly coordinated their messages in favor of Barack Obama and the Democrats, and against Sarah Palin and the Republican Party. JournoList was founded in 2007 and was closed down in early 2010.[1]
Take Back America America - "progressive plan for victory"
On March 17, 2008, at the Take Back America conference in Washington D.C. Eric Boehlert, Michael Calderone, Mark Green, Michael Hirsh, Cenk Uygur and Tracy Van Slyke spoke in a session entitled "Angles of Vision: Big Media People's Media".[2]
Justice Democrats
In December 2016, Cenk Uygur, Kyle Kulinski, a Young Turks network colleague who hosts "Secular Talk," and Zack Exley and Saikat Chakrabarti, top Bernie Sanders campaign staffers launched Justice Democrats, a Political Action Committee (PAC) that "aims to recruit and fund a slate of primary challengers under an anti-corporate, progressive banner."[3]
Saikat Chakrabarti, Justice Democrats executive director, was director of organizing technology for Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.[4]
References
- ↑ Free Republic: JournoList: 151 Names Confirmed (with News Organizations), July 30, 2010 (accessed August 2, 2010)
- ↑ Campaign for America's Future website: Take Back America 2008 - Agenda (accessed on May 11, 2010)
- ↑ The Young Turks Really, Really Don't Want You to Compare Them to Breitbart, accessed May 17, 2017
- ↑ Candidate seeks U.S. Senate post Feb 1 2018 The Inter Mountain