Sanders – Never lose your sense of outrage

Sanders – Never lose your sense of outrage
By Joshua Eaton, TeenVogue

(June 24, 2016 2:05 p.m.) — NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) — Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed to supporters Thursday he would continue his fight to move his party and his country to the left despite his failed presidential campaign, because “political and social revolutions continue.”

Sanders told a crowd at New York City’s Town Hall venue “Our goal from day one has been transform this nation …And that is the fight we are going to continue.”

Sanders warned that change can’t happen if people get complacent.

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Sanders says his revolution is – just getting started

Sanders says his revolution is – just getting started
By Ezra Kaplan, AP

(June 23, 2016 3:00 p.m.) — NEW YORK (AP) Bernie Sanders told a roaring crowd of supporters Thursday that his campaign is “just getting started” fighting economic inequality, changing the Democratic Party and bolstering Democrats running for Congress.

Speaking to a packed hall in Manhattan, Sanders took something of a victory lap as he reviewed the states he won and the fact that many young people flocked to his campaign over presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s.

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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders Bring Their Battle to Brooklyn

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By Yamiche Alcindor, NYTimes.com

(Friday, April 8, 2016 6:00 pm) — In Brooklyn Heights, on the 11th floor of an office building, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign headquarters was humming on Monday. Staff members and volunteers were working the phones in spacious offices with windows that look out on the Manhattan skyline. Photos of supporters, an array of campaign buttons and a hanging gong, with the names of states she has won scribbled onto it in marker, adorned the sleekly designed space. A retired New York police officer stood guard.

Two miles away, in a gritty open-floor office space in Gowanus, Brooklyn, that smelled of fresh paint, an army of mostly young Bernie Sanders supporters began gathering two weeks ago to spread his message. Last weekend, they nibbled on orange slices, perched on plastic folding chairs and sifted through mountains of newly delivered cardboard boxes filled with Bernie for President pamphlets. Visitors walked up a driveway and through a half-open side door to enter.

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Love Trumps Hate – Actress Rosario Dawson on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President

Love Trumps Hate – Actress Rosario Dawson on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President
By Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.org

(Apr. 4, 2016 08:00) — On Thursday night, between 16,000 and 20,000 people gathered in St. Mary’s Park in the South Bronx for a Bernie Sanders rally, where Sanders stressed his Brooklyn roots. It was the first time in decades a presidential candidate spoke in the South Bronx. He spoke alongside director Spike Lee and actress Rosario Dawson, who is known for her role in Kids and many other films, including Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as well as Rent.

After the rally DemocracyNow’s Amy Goodman caught up with Dawson while she was on the sidewalk with friends and asked her why she was supporting Bernie Sanders.

20160404_0800 Love Trumps Hate - Actress Rosario Dawson on Why She Supports Bernie Sanders (DemocracyNow).jpg “I’m supporting Bernie Sanders because he says no to fracking. I’m supporting Bernie Sanders because we do need a single-payer healthcare system that takes care of everyone. And that is not a pipe dream; that’s something that’s happening all over the world and in really positive ways,” Dawnson said. “We are a social democracy. That’s our firefighters, that’s our policemen. And it shouldn’t be drawing a line, that’s—you know, a fireman will go into your house to take your hard drive out and save your cat, but if you break your leg, screw you.”

“That doesn’t make any sense, you know? And when you actually go and you travel around the world and you start recognizing that people can actually be sick, they can take—you know, have a broken leg and not lose their job and lose their livelihoods and lose their homes over it, that’s really important.”

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Bernie Sanders Surprises Stephen Colbert During New York City Campaign Stop

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By Alex Garofalo, ibtimes

(Apr. 1, 2016 11:14 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders spent Thursday in New York campaigning in the Bronx for the state’s April 19 primary. Between rallies, the Democratic presidential candidate found time to pay a visit to the Ed Sullivan Theater in Manhattan and say hi to comedian Stephen Colbert.

During Colbert’s “Wheel of News” segment — a “Wheel of Fortune”-inspired bit in which Colbert spins a wheel of random discussion topics and games — in Thursday’s episode of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” the comedian spun the aforementioned wheel and landed on “mystery guest.” That guest turned out to be none other than Sanders.

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Bernie Sanders Is Gaining on Hillary Clinton in Her Own Backyard

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By Pema Levy, MotherJones.com

(Mar. 31, 2016 11:29 a.m.) — Bernie Sanders won his home state of Vermont with a whopping 86 percent of the vote. Hillary Clinton, it seems, will have no such luck on her home turf.

Sanders is slowly gaining on Clinton in New York ahead of the April 19 primary. Clinton now leads Sanders by 12 points in New York’s Democratic primary, according to a Quinnipiac Poll released Thursday. A poll in February showed Sanders 21 points behind Clinton in New York, and another in March showed him 48 points behind.

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Police Back Turning Reveals SerpicoGate Moment at Hospital

Cops turn their backs on visiting Mayor de Blasio at  Woodhull Hospital. Captured by WPIX11 News.

Cops turn their backs on visiting Mayor de Blasio at Woodhull Hospital. Captured by WPIX11 News.

ATLANTA (Dec. 21, 2014) — The decision police officers made Saturday to turn their backs on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio during his visit at Woodhull Hospital to pay respects to two slain officers demonstrated an abuse of the public trust and powers granted upon them to the highest order. Further demonstrating the lack of discipline in the police force requiring prompt, immediate punitive action.

Each and every one of them should be summarily dismissed from the police force.

Their behavior of turning their backs on the Mayor was nothing more than rogue cops lashing out at authority. And when those entrusted with certain state powers, use their position as a forum to lash out, immediate action needs to be taken.

Wearing the uniform comes with it certain privileges and responsibilities. And clearly, those police officers do not deserve to wear the uniform any longer, and probably didn’t deserve to put it on in the first place. Especially when they are prepared to take matters into their own hands and lash out politically as they did.

Using that opportunity to voice their disapproval only exemplifies what’s been happening in the streets when kids, and unarmed citizens get killed by their hands.

A form of defiance in the highest form.

What’s next? Like at the hospital, the officers have demonstrated they are prepared to turn their backs in the face of authority in order to demonstrate their personal feelings and prejudices they may have at a situation, and here against an individual, the Mayor of all people.

And if they are prepared to turn their backs against the Mayor, they are prepared to turn their backs in the line of duty in some dark alley somewhere facing a lone black man in the corner when no cameras are around. That’s right.

What is next? Will those same back turning cops turn their backs at a critical moment when required to perform their duties, resulting in yet another injustice occurring on the street?

Will those cops turn their backs when they are required to follow criminal procedure, abide by the Constitution of the United States?

Will those cops turn their backs when having to provide backup to another cop who may not agree with their rogue political agenda while in uniform?

What happened at that hospital was a Serpico moment to the 10th degree. In plain view of the public, the media and national television.

Wearing the uniform comes with it sacrifice, discipline. Clearly these police officers demonstrated a lack of both of these inherent qualities.

They failed the responsibility that their public office requires them to demonstrate. Responsibilities which were transferred to them, entrusted upon them. Responsibilities to be faithfully administered when wearing the uniform.

As a person who wears the uniform in the military, it would be unheard of to see rows of Soldiers turning their backs on a visiting senior ranking member of their chain of command passing by. Disgust and repulsion. Those are the tastes left in one’s mouth after viewing the spectacle demonstrated by these volatile individuals.

The police officers who turned their backs on the Mayor are entrusted to use lethal force while performing their jobs. When they signed up for the job, they also understood they relinquished various individual freedoms in order to uphold a position in law enforcement.

They to an oath to uphold the laws in the state of New York and to follow the orders placed upon them from their chain of command. Much like that of military personnel under the President of the United States.

Imagine if the President visited Iraq and walked down an isle to reach a podium to give a speech about the war. Then, at that moment, Soldiers, in an act of retaliation and protest, turned their backs to him in defiance. Do you think for a minute those Soldiers would be permitted to continue to wear that uniform one second further?

The officers and those who encouraged them to retaliate and lash out during Mayor de Blasio’s visit should all be summarily dismissed from their jobs and never be able to hold a position wearing any uniform. They have thoughtfully betrayed the office and uniform they were entrusted to wear with full contempt and disrespect.

If there ever was a division between law enforcement, or the “Police” and members who serve in the military, this was it.

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