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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bernie Sanders ARREST RECORD Revealed [View all]
In Chicago, Sanders threw himself into activismcivil rights, economic justice, volunteering, organizing. I received more of an education off campus than I did in the classroom, Sanders says. By his 23rd birthday, Sanders had worked for a meatpackers union, marched for civil rights in Washington D.C., joined the university socialists and been arrested at a civil rights demonstration. He delivered jeremiads to young crowds. The police called him an outside agitator, Sanders said. He was a sloppy student, and the dean asked him to take a year off. He inspired his classmates. He knows how to talk to people now, said Robin Kaufman, a student who knew Sanders in 1960s Chicago, and he knew how to do it then. He was a radical before it was cool.
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The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: You can go outside and get arrested, too! he jokes. Its not that hard if you put your mind to it.) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper hed up, one by one. Are these yours? he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.
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http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/
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The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: You can go outside and get arrested, too! he jokes. Its not that hard if you put your mind to it.) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper hed up, one by one. Are these yours? he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.
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Why not? We had three administrations of actual war criminals in the White House.
Initech
Jun 2015
#31
JUST BECAUSE HE WENT TO JAIL FOR IT DOES NOT MEAN HE TALKS ABOUT IT!!!1!!11!!!
Bjorn Against
Jun 2015
#5
Someone already responded to me a month ago when I posted his civil rights record and said
cui bono
Jun 2015
#63
John Lewis goes back 'friggin' decades also'. Bernie is the real deal and there is nothing
sabrina 1
Jun 2015
#65
Being arrested demonstrating for civil rights in the 1960s = badge of COURAGE!!!
PatrickforO
Jun 2015
#7
Yes, but what about all the folks here who tell us he doesn't care about POC? nt
valerief
Jun 2015
#17
Who is best positioned to take on what needs to be done to ensure a thriving democracy?
Jefferson23
Jun 2015
#18