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March 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders Rally in Phoenix later this afternoon - Lines Long - Great Photos!

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March 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s Link to a Nasty Piece of Work in Honduras

By Marjorie Cohn

A critical difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is their position on whether children who fled violence in Central American countries, particularly Honduras, two years ago should be allowed to stay in the United States or be returned.

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The violence in Honduras can be traced to a history of U.S. economic and political meddling, including Clinton’s support of the coup, according to American University professor Adrienne Pine, author of “Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras.”

Pine, who has worked for many years in Honduras, told Dennis Bernstein of KPFA radio in 2014 that the military forces that carried out the coup were trained at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly called the U.S. Army School of the Americas) in Fort Benning, Ga. Although the coup was supported by the United States, it was opposed by the United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS). The U.N. and the OAS labeled President Manuel Zelaya’s ouster a military coup.

“Hillary Clinton was probably the most important actor in supporting the coup [against the democratically elected Zelaya] in Honduras,” Pine noted. It took the United States two months to even admit that Honduras had suffered a coup, and it never did admit it was a military coup. That is, most likely, because the Foreign Assistance Act prohibits the U.S. from aiding a country “whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree.”

Although the U.S. government eventually cut nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras, the State Department under Clinton took pains to clarify that this was not an admission that a military coup had occurred.

“Hillary Clinton played a huge role in propping up the coup administration,” Pine said. “The State Department ensured the coup administration would remain in place through negotiations that they imposed, against the OAS’ wish, and through continuing to provide aid and continuing to recognize the coup administration.”

“And so if it weren’t for Hillary Clinton,” Pine added, “basically there wouldn’t be this refugee crisis from Honduras at the level that it is today. And Hondurans would be living a very different reality from the tragic one they are living right now.”


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Less than a month after the coup, Hugo Llorens, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras, sent a cable to Clinton and other top U.S. officials. The subject line read: “Open and Shut: The Case of the Honduran Coup.” The cable said, “There is no doubt” that the coup was “illegal and unconstitutional.” Nevertheless, as noted above, Clinton’s objective was to “render the question of Zelaya moot.”

After the coup, there was a fraudulent election financed by the National Endowment for Democracy—notorious for meddling in Latin America—and the State Department. The election ushered in a repressive, militarized regime. Conditions deteriorated, leading to the exodus of thousands of Honduran children.


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On Thursday, more than 200 human rights, faith-based, indigenous rights, environmental, labor and nongovernmental groups sent an open letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, expressing “shock and deep sorrow regarding the murder of Honduran human rights and environmental defender Berta Cáceres ... winner of the prestigious 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize.” The groups urged Kerry to support an independent international investigation into her murder led by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. They also urged the State Department “to suspend all assistance and training to Honduran security forces, with the exception of investigatory and forensic assistance to the police, so long as the murders of Berta Cáceres and scores of other Honduran activists remain in impunity.”


Read whole article: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/hillary_clintons_link_to_a_nasty_piece_of_work_in_honduras_20160315

About Marjorie Cohn:
Marjorie Cohn is a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Professor Cohn has authored “Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law”, has co-authored “Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice, and Rules of Disengagement: The Politics and Honor of Military Dissent” as well as edited and contributed to “The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse, and Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues.” Her articles are archived at http://www.marjoriecohn.com.

Cohn lectures throughout the world regarding international human rights and U.S. foreign policy. She has also been a news consultant for CBS News and a legal analyst for Court TV, and has provided legal and political commentary on BBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, and Pacifica Radio.Her articles have appeared in numerous journals such as Fordham Law Review, Hastings Law Journal and Virginia Journal of International Law, as well as The National Law Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Chicago Tribune. Professor Cohn is a contributing editor to Jurist and National Lawyers Guild Review, and her frequent columns appear on Truthdig, Huffington Post, Truthout, CommonDreams, Counterpunch, OpedNews, ZNet, and GlobalResearch.

She has been a criminal defense attorney at the trial and appellate levels for many years, and was staff counsel to the California Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Professor Cohn is the U.S. representative to the executive committee of the Association of American Jurists and is deputy secretary general of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.

Professor Cohn as been recognized with multiple awards such as the San Diego County Bar Association’s 2005 Service to Legal Education Award, Esq, the Excellence in the Teaching of the Law by the San Diego Law Library Justice Foundation award, the 2007 Bernard E. Witkin award, and and was recognized as one of San Diego’s Top Attorneys in Academics for 2006, 2008 and 2009. She also received the 2008 Peace Scholar of the Year Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association, the 2009 Amnesty International-San Diego Digna Ochoa Human Rights Defender Award, and the 2010 Alumni Achievement Award from the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Professor Cohn is part of the board of directors of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign, the advisory board of Veterans for Peace, and is a civilian member of the board of GI Voice. She is also a member of the Advisory Board for the American Constitution Society – San Diego Chapter. Professor Cohn testified in 2008 about government torture policy before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and she has testified at military courts-martial about the illegality of the wars, the duty to obey lawful orders, and the duty to disobey unlawful orders. Cohen was legal observer in Iran on behalf of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in 1978 and has participated in delegations to Cuba, China and Yugoslavia.
March 15, 2016

'Gasland' Director Urges Fracking States to Vote Sanders on Super Tuesday

Josh Fox, the director of the celebrated 2010 documentary Gasland and more recently, How to Let Go of The World (And Love All the Things Climate Can't Change), which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, has a message to voters about environmental dangers, Super Tuesday and Bernie Sanders.

What do these three have in common? Well, there are primaries in five states on Tuesday, March 15: Florida, Missouri, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio. With the exception of Missouri, all of them are fracking states where there are significant anti-fracking movements on the ground.

If you want to stop fracking now, vote for Bernie, Fox said.


"What the clean power plant [that Hillary is in favor of] does is that it facilitates the transiton from coal to gas, not the transition from coal and gas to renewable energy," Fox told MSNBC's Chris Hayes following the Democratic debate in Miami. "Right now, in America we are facing 300 fracked gas power plants," the director added.


More: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/gasland-director-urges-fracking-states-vote-sanders-super-tuesday#.VudSlBJIdro.twitter
March 14, 2016

Very Interesting MO Endorsement: Robert H. Wendt - A higher loyalty

Robert H. Wendt, who owes a deep personal debt to both of the Clintons (having been pardoned by him in Jan. 2001) endorses Sanders.

I urge my fellow St. Louisans to vote for Bernie Sanders in this week’s primary. I do so in spite of being deeply indebted to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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Because of this great personal debt and my deep belief in loyalty, it may seem both curious and disloyal that I urge my fellow citizens to get behind Bernie Sanders. I do so because of my deep belief that Sen. Sanders is leading a political revolution that has the only real chance of restoring democracy to America.

I was privileged to come of age during the civil rights movement. I am thankful that God allowed me to witness the struggle of my African-American fellows culminating in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What was accomplished was breathtaking. It came only with great sacrifice. But it proved that we could live up to what Lincoln so aptly described as “the better angels of our nature.”


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Unless and until we remove the big money influence from our political system, we will continue in the direction of a two-class society — the haves and the have-nots. If that happens, America will come apart at the seams. The riots of the ’60s and ’70s will look like minor disturbances if the imbalances within our society remain and gain even more momentum.

The sad fact is that the Clintons are on the wrong side of this issue. They have become part of the Wall Street crowd. It is that group which nearly bankrupted our nation in 2008 with their greed. Hillary Clinton simply will not reform our broken economic system; she is part of it.

I implore my African-American friends to support Sen. Sanders because he, not Clinton, offers the only real chance to address the economic grievances of the black community.


Read whole statement here: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/bernie-sanders-a-higher-loyalty/article_ca6fa501-eead-5ed9-a9ef-8d6ec640834f.html
March 12, 2016

I love this! Hillary said Saturday - She Didn't Know Where Bernie Was During Healthcare Debate of

1990s.

Hey Hillary . . . Look Behind You!

A spokesman for Bernie Sanders retorted with a photo after Hillary Clinton said Saturday she didn't know where Sanders was during the healthcare fight in the 1990s.


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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/272790-sanders-spokesperson-fires-back-at-clinton-for-healthcare
March 12, 2016

Just saw this Tweet From Rev Jesse Jackson - Talking With Sanders Now

Rev Jesse Jackson SrVerified account ?@RevJJackson 4h4 hours ago
Today join us as we WELCOME our SPECIAL GUEST @SenSanders to the @RPCoalition International #SaturdayMorningForum.

Hopefully we will get a chance to hear what Bernie says. Of course, media won't report it so . . .

March 12, 2016

Sanders Endorsed by Rep Marcy Kaptur of Ohio at Rally today

http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2016/03/11/Supporters-line-the-block-to-see-Bernie-Sanders-in-Toledo.html


Bernie Sanders sought to beef up his vote in Tuesday’s Ohio Democratic primary with an impassioned appeal to a northwest Ohio crowd in Toledo.

Some 2,400, many of whom had waited outside the SeaGate Convention Centre since morning, cheered the Vermont senator’s speech.


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He was preceded on stage by Baldemar Velasquez, labor leader for Mexican-Amercan farm workers and member of the board of trustees of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.

A surprise introduction was given this afternoon by U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) — the only member of the Ohio Democratic Congressional delegation to not endorse former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Miss Kaptur thanked the crowd for "coming to build a stronger a better America. We love you and we desperately love this country and want it to be a country for all, not just the privileged few."

"I come here to introduce the next president of the United States," she said.







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