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Donkees's JournalBernie Sanders on the Today Show 1981
Published on Mar 7, 2019
Sanders in 1981 defeated Gordon Paquette, Burlington’s five-term Democratic mayor, by just 10 votes. The then-39-year-old Sanders ran as an independent and, while he didn’t campaign as a socialist, he made no secret of it, either. Elected just months after Ronald Reagan was elected to the presidency, Sanders’s victory caught national attention.
The 1981 Today segment, titled “Socialism in New England,” shows journalist Jane Pauley declaring, “Face it, you don’t find too many socialists in elected office in this country.”
It then cuts to Phil Donahue, who is sitting down with the newly-elected Sanders. He says that many people were surprised at Sanders’s narrow win. “My goodness, how could this happen in good old conservative Vermont?” Donahue asked.
“Well, in Vermont, being conservative is different, perhaps, than being conservative elsewhere in the country,” Sanders said.
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https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1103691487685103617Cornell West Endorses Bernie Sanders
CORNEL WEST ON BERNIE, TRUMP, AND RACISM
Deconstructed
March 7 2019, 6:03 a.m.
Excerpt:
CW: Well, as you know, I was blessed to do over a hundred events for my dear brother. And this is the first time I’ve had a chance to publicly endorse him again, but yes, indeed. I’ll be in his corner that we’re going to win this time. And it has to do with the Martin Luther King like criteria of assessing a candidate namely the issues of militarism, poverty, materialism, and racism, xenophobia in all of its forms that includes any kind of racism as you know against black people, brown people, yellow people, anybody, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Kashmirians, Tibetans and so forth. So that there’s no doubt that the my dear brother Bernie stands shoulders above any of the other candidates running in the Democratic primary when it comes to that Martin Luther King-like standards or criteria.
MH: And that’s to do with the man himself. You’re endorsing him as a person, as your brother. In terms of policies, is there a particular policy that you think is crucial to his campaign that makes him stand out from the rest?
CW: No, the policies have to do — policies against militarism, policies against poverty, the critiques of Wall Street, the consistency of his call for Democratic accountability of corporate elites and financial elites and basically the greed that we see among so many of those elites. And the same is true about racism. I want to hit this issue head-on because there’s been some talk about reparations and it’s true. I’ve supported reparations. I’ve been struggling for reparations for over 40 years, but I don’t see an endorsement of reparations as the only precondition of fighting against white supremacy. There’s no doubt that his policies will benefit poor and working people and poor and working black people and brown people more than any other candidate. And so, yes, when it comes to just reparations as a whole and larger dialogue certainly, I’m for it, but I hope that a lot of black folk don’t get confused and sit back on this issue of reparations.
MH: You think you can get him to move on reparations? Because he was asked on ABC’s The View about whether he backed it and he said well, you know, we’ve got crises in our communities and there’s other better ways to address that than by “just writing out a check.” A lot of people criticized him for that as you say, do you think he can move on that like he’s moved on other issues? That people like you persuade him to a different position?
CW: No doubt about that, but the core is ensuring that there’s fundamental transformation in the racist system under which we live so that the lives of black and brown and yellow peoples are much better. And so, that’s the real issue. And so, it seems to me I don’t want reparations to be an issue that gets us away from him taking a stand on those issues so much better than any other of the other candidates.
MH: So you say he takes a takes a better position on those issues than other candidates.
CW: Oh, no doubt about it.
https://theintercept.com/2019/03/07/cornel-west-on-bernie-trump-and-racism/
Sanders Statement on Passage of $15 Minimum Wage in House Committee
https://twitter.com/repmarkpocan/status/1103401811099242496Sanders Statement on Passage of $15 Minimum Wage in House Committee
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
WASHINGTON, March 6 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement after the House Committee on Education and Labor advanced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024:
"Three years ago the idea of a $15 minimum wage seemed 'radical' and 'unrealistic.' Today, because of the American people standing up and fighting back, five states have passed a $15 minimum wage and in an historic vote the House Education and Labor Committee advanced legislation for a living wage of $15 an hour.
"Let me congratulate Chairman Bobby Scott and every Democrat on the House Education and Labor Committee for moving a bill forward that would give nearly 40 million Americans a raise. In the year 2019, no one in the United States of America should be living in poverty. A job should lift Americans out of poverty, not keep them in it."
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-passage-of-15-minimum-wage-in-house-committee
Bernie Sanders Condemns Effort To Rebuke Ilhan Omar
The Vermont senator said he opposes anti-Semitism, but fears that targeting ConOmar is a “way of stifling debate” over Israel and Palestine.
By Daniel Marans
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) condemned an effort by House Democratic leadership to issue a veiled rebuke of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for comments about the influence of Israel on American foreign policy.
“Anti-Semitism is a hateful and dangerous ideology which must be vigorously opposed in the United States and around the world. We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel,” Sanders said in a statement on Wednesday. “Rather, we must develop an even-handed Middle East policy which brings Israelis and Palestinians together for a lasting peace.
“What I fear is going on in the House now is an effort to target Congresswoman Omar as a way of stifling that debate,” he continued. That’s wrong.”
This story is developing.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-ilhan-omar-anti-semitism-statement_n_5c80385be4b0e62f69e98739
New: Bernie Sanders speaks out against Ilhan Omar treatment.
https://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1103403512631881734
Sanders and Velazquez propose to give equal access to Puerto Rico to federal food assistance
They present a project to include the island in the Supplementary Nutritional Assistance ProgramWednesday, March 6, 2019 - 10:00 AM
By José A. Delgado
Translation Excerpt:
Washington - Bernie Sanders (Vermont), in the Senate, and Nydia Velázquez (New York), in the House of Representatives, today filed a bill that would direct Puerto Rico to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which would represent an increase in food aid received by 1.35 million people on the island.
The projects would authorize Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands to submit plans to the US Secretary of Agriculture to provide access to SNAP, under which food assistance is distributed in all 50 states, and the territories of Guam. and the Virgin Islands.
Puerto Rico faces a cap on access to food assistance funds, through the Nutrition Assistance Program (PAN), for which the island receives this federal fiscal year about $ 1,900 million.
For Senator Sanders, the measure would end the unequal treatment of some territories in access to food assistance and would help Puerto Rico "not only to recover from the hurricane, but to provide aid to the most vulnerable in our society."
In the Senate, the legislation has the coauspicio of 10 Democratic senators: Robert Menéndez (New Jersey); Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts); Kamala Harris (California); Jeff Merkley (Oregon); Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut); Corey Booker (New Jersey); Edward Markey (Massachusetts); Kirsten Gillibrand (New York); and the number two of the minority, Richard Durbin (Illinois).
https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/eeuu/nota/berniesandersynydiavelazquezproponendaraccesoigualapuertoricoalaasistenciaalimentariafederal-2480608/
https://twitter.com/JoseADelgadoEND/status/1103296918543843328
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