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Nanjeanne's JournalThe Heresy and Evangelism of Bernie Sanders. About Zionism, Being Jewish and Really Interesting
In Village Voice
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2016 AT 9:35 A.M. BY JESSE ALEXANDER MYERSON
"That's not just words," he continued. "The truth is, at some level, when you hurt, when your children hurt, I hurt. I hurt. And when my kids hurt, you hurt. I believe that what human nature is about is that everybody in this room impacts everybody else in all kinds of ways that we can't even understand.
"It's beyond intellect," he concluded. "It's a spiritual, emotional thing."
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The Torah repeatedly reminds Jews that, because we were strangers in Egypt, we are obligated in turn to welcome the stranger in the course of our lives. Scripture also tells us that our religious ceremonies are not ends unto themselves but a means through which to fortify our spirits for earthly liberation work: From Isaiah, we learn that our fasting on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, is not for the purpose of "mak[ing] your voice to be heard on high," but rather "to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke."
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Long Article but so worth a read: http://www.villagevoice.com/news/the-heresy-and-evangelism-of-bernie-sanders-8450444
Bernie Sanders Rally To Be Held In The Bronx, NY on March 31!
Join Bernie Sanders for a rally in South Bronx, with Residente, ex vocalist of Calle 13.
This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Admission is first come, first served.
Doors Open: 4:00 PM
Saint Marys Park (New York, NY)
450 St. Ann's Ave
Bronx
New York, NY 10455
https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/rally/44pmm
Sanders Appleton Wisconsin Rally Starting Now - Bernie On Now
&feature=youtu.beBernie Rally in Madison, Wisconsin - BERNIE JUST INTRODUCED!!!!
Here's the Youtube Link:
Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone: Young People Are Right About Hillary
interesting read on Wenner's editorial on Clinton and why Taibbi thinks he is wrong.
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And to one degree or another, the modern Democratic Party, often including Hillary Clinton personally, has been on the wrong side of virtually all of these issues.
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If you're willing to extend the "purity" argument to the Espionage Act, it's only a matter of time before you get in real trouble. And even if it doesn't happen this summer, Democrats may soon wish they'd picked the frumpy senator from Vermont who probably checks his restaurant bills to make sure he hasn't been undercharged.
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They've seen in the last decades that politicians who promise they can deliver change while also taking the money, mostly just end up taking the money.
Whole article should be read.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-young-people-are-right-about-hillary-clinton-20160325#ixzz440rT1Odq
Rosario Dawson's Powerful Letter to Dolores Huerta: Setting the Facts Straight About Bernie Sanders
Brava Rosario Dawson for a wonderful open letter to Dolores Huerta after she penned back in February an article full of distortions. It's unfortunate it will not get one tenth of one percent the attention that Huerta's and Ferrera's misrepresentations of Sen. Sanders and his supporters did. But well worth the read.
Dear Dolores,
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So let me address your statements made:
1. People of good will can disagree about the H.R. 6094 (109th): Community Protection Act of 2006, which Bernie Sanders voted for. But:
The words indefinite detention did not appear anywhere in the bill Bernie voted for. The bill only applied to people awaiting deportation (under orders of removal), often for having criminal records.
The Congressional research office said people could be detained indefinitely under the bill if they were specified dangerous aliens under orders of removal who cannot be removed. Only about 4,000 people had been detained for more than six months as of 2009 and the bill Bernie voted for would have required review of their detention status every six months.
The bill split liberals in Congress, with some voting against it and many others (including Nancy Pelosi, Hillary supporter Sherrod Brown, and DNC chair and Hillary supporter Debbie Wasserman Schultz) voting for it, along with Bernie.
2. About the 2007 bill you criticized Bernie for voting against and have made your main argument:
He supported the DREAM ACT, but the entire bill had too many sections that would have been detrimental to American workers, immigration reform, immigrants and their families, so he ultimately decided to keep fighting for a better bill. A couple of the more contentious points were:
It stepped-up border security, adding 20,000 more Border Patrol agents and 370 miles of additional fencing (you might call that Trump wall building) along the U.S.-Mexico border.
It removed four of the five family-based categories under which an immigrant could apply for permanent residency. All that was left was the preference for spouses and children of U.S. citizens (which strikes me as a form of privilege).
It expanded the horribly abusive guest worker program that has left some people in what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls close to slavery in its report on the subject. (There are other horror stories, too.)
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), a federation of our countrys largest trade unions, both opposed the bill. LULACs Executive Director said the group cannot support a bill that will separate families and lead to the exploitation of immigrant workers while resulting in widespread undocumented immigration in the future.
The AFL-CIO compared the exploitative nature of the guest worker provision to a modern-day Bracero Program, referring to the program launched during the Second World War to meet labor demands in the United States one which led to the forced deportation of millions of Mexicans, including a few U.S. citizens, from the United States under Operation Wetback beginning in 1954. (Article by Hector Luis Alamo here.)
And so much more - read the whole article here: http://linkis.com/www.alternet.org/ele/bXrAM
And to read (if you missed it) Dolores Huerta's article, here's the link: https://medium.com/@DoloresHuerta/on-immigration-bernie-sanders-is-not-who-he-says-he-is-b79980adff6a#.bxzwi58ju
The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union Endorses Sanders
SPOKANE, Wash. Bernie Sanders on Thursday welcomed the endorsement of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, which represents approximately 50,000 women and men who work in California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.
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http://blog.4president.org/2016/2016/03/international-longshore-and-warehouse-union-endorses-bernie-sanders-for-president.html
Salt Lake City Utah Rally with Sanders. Then Tucson and then Phoenix!
Crowds gathering in Utah
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Doors are scheduled to open at 12:30 pm Mountain Time
He then heads to Tucson - Doors open at 4:30 p.m. A Future to Believe In Tucson Rally, Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave, Tucson
Phoenix tomorrow.
Matt Taibbi's piece: How the 'New York Times' Sandbagged Bernie Sanders
Really interesting article about the NY Times story on their piece, Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years Via Legislative Side Doors which was CHANGED TO Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders Won Modest Victories. He shows how they "corrected" the original version to take on a completely different slant from what was originally printed.
I took notice of the piece by Jessica Steinhauer because I wrote essentially the same article nearly 11 years ago. Mine, called "Four Amendments and a Funeral," was quite a bit longer. Sanders back then was anxious that people know how Congress worked, and also how it didn't work, so he invited me to tag along for weeks to follow the process of a series of amendments he tried (and mostly succeeded) to pass in the House.
I came to the same conclusions that Steinhauer did initially: that Sanders was uniquely skilled at the amendment process and also had a unique ability to reach across the aisle to make deals.
"Sanders is the amendment king of the current House of Representative. Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, no other lawmaker has passed more roll-call amendments (amendments that actually went to a vote on the floor) than Bernie Sanders. He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active, and on the other by using his status as an Independent to form left-right coalitions."
Steinhauer the other day wrote very nearly the same thing. She described how Bernie managed to get a $1.5 billion youth jobs amendment tacked onto an immigration bill through "wheeling and dealing, shaming and cajoling."
The amendment, she wrote, was "classic Bernie Sanders," a man she described as having "spent a quarter-century in Congress working the side door, tacking on amendments to larger bills that scratch his particular policy itches, generally focused on working-class Americans, income inequality and the environment."
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Not so fast! As noted first in this piece on Medium ("Proof That the New York Times Isn't Feeling the Bern"

First, as noted in the Medium piece, they changed the headline. It went from:
Bernie Sanders Scored Victories for Years Via Legislative Side Doors
to:
Via Legislative Side Doors, Bernie Sanders Won Modest Victories
Then they yanked a quote from Bernie's longtime policy adviser Warren Gunnels that read, "It has been a very successful strategy."
They then added the following two paragraphs:
"But in his presidential campaign Mr. Sanders is trying to scale up those kinds of proposals as a national agenda, and there is little to draw from his small-ball legislative approach to suggest that he could succeed.
"Mr. Sanders is suddenly promising not just a few stars here and there, but the moon and a good part of the sun, from free college tuition paid for with giant tax hikes to a huge increase in government health care, which has made even liberal Democrats skeptical."
This stuff could have been written by the Clinton campaign. It's stridently derisive, essentially saying there's no evidence Bernie's "small-ball" approach (I guess Republicans aren't the only ones not above testicular innuendo) could ever succeed on the big stage.
Read the whole fascinating article:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-new-york-times-sandbagged-bernie-sanders-20160315?page=2
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