Sanders supporters are practicing how to protest the Democratic National Convention

Bernie Sanders supporters in California
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Hillary Clinton has declared herself the winner of the Democratic primacy race, but Bernie Sanders has yet to give up — and neither have some of his supporters.

At a People's Summit conference in Chicago Saturday, several dozen Sanders supporters trained for "direct action" at the Democratic National Convention, practicing disruptive tactics like chanting, marching, and avoiding police interference. One idea the protesters are considering but may not ultimately use is a "blockade," which means physically blocking busy intersections in the convention's host city of Philadelphia.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.