Which Sunday event in Portland will you attend? Bernie or Move to Amend?

[cascadiance]

We have Bernie Sanders scheduled to hold a rally in Veteran's Memorial Colliseum on Sunday August 9th between 6-8 PM...

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/07/bernie_sanders_plans_large_aug.html

We have David Cobb speaking right across the river at First Unitarian Church on SW 12th and Salmon St on Move to Amend issues on Sunday August 9th between 7-9 PM...

http://www.afd-pdx.org/alliance-for-democracy-sponsored-events.html

Darn, I'd really like to go to both of those!

I'd like to suggest something! Maybe we could have a rally at 9 or so after both events where people from both events could gather some place and make news here in Portland showing how people that care about Bernie also care about getting Citizen's United and corporate personhood, money as 'free speech' overturned as well, and that these movements can work together elsewhere too. It is an opportunity in my eye.

Maybe, given that Thom Hartmann used to live and broadcast from here in Portland and his daughter still lives here amongst other things, we could get him to come back for that evening and emcee such a rally there (and perhaps get David Cobb to hang around afterward to speak there too. Not sure about Bernie given he's probably really busy now, but who knows). We could have Thom Hartmann speaking along with Carl Wolfson who used to be on the air together to those at such a rally. Could be huge!

[eridani]

1. From Oregon Live--

http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2015/07/bernie_sanders_plans_large_aug.html


Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has been attracting large crowds to his presidential campaign appearances around the country, has scheduled a Sunday, Aug. 9 rally at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland.

The Sanders rally at Memorial Coliseum -- which has a capacity of more than 12,000 -- is set to begin at 7 p.m., with the doors opening at 6 p.m., according to an announcement posted Friday on the Sanders campaign website.

There is no charge listed for the event, which says he will discuss issues ranging from climate change to dealing "with obscene wealth and income inequality."

Sanders, an Independent who aligns with the Democratic Party in the Senate and identifies himself as a socialist, has been attracting the largest crowds of the new presidential campaign season. In early July, about 7,500 showed up for an event in Portland, Maine, according to a Time Magazine account of his large crowds.

The senator will appear in Portland just four days after Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race, is set to hold a $2,700-per-person fundraiser at a home in the exclusive Dunthorpe neighborhood on the Portland border.

[cascadiance]

3. It looks like the timing of the Move-to-Amend event has been moved to 2 PM!

I had sent them a note on this earlier, and they probably realized that most of the people they'd want attending this would be wanting to attend Bernie's event across the river at the same time so they moved it to 2 PM it looks like. Check the link I put there above and note this time change now.

I think Bernie Sanders folk should be planning a heavy day of rallies and meetings that day then!