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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Excerpt:
While much of the nation looked on in horror as President Donald Trump delivered a speech ripped "out of a psychopathology textbook" on Tuesday night in Arizona, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) headlined a town hall-style event in Detroit, Michigan on racial and economic justice that served as a marked contrast to Trump's "unhinged" performance.
Before Sanders approached the podium, Rev. Wendell Anthony of the Detroit Fellowship Chapel Church delivered a remarkable introduction that was quickly spread on social media.
Sanders is "trying to take down the tributes to racism and division" while also "trying to stand up for universal healthcare, stand up for jobs for everybody, stand up for income equality, stand up for tuition-free education, stand up for fair treatment and respect from law enforcement across the nation," Anthony said.
Speaking to an audience of more than 2,000 people, Conyers and Sanders slammed Trump while also outlining a positive vision, one that included Medicare for All, a higher federal minimum wage, and full employment.
Pointing to Trump's insistence that "many sides" were to blame for the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, Sanders said: "We have a president who was equivocalnice people on both sides! No! There are no nice Nazis!"
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/23/trump-raged-phoenix-sanders-and-conyers-offered-vision-better-nation
Me.
(35,454 posts)Conyers is finally getting recognition for the work he has done on this over the years. He was the lone voice for way too long.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Sitting on the stage
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... why others want to be so closely associated with Conyers and his ideas. Conyers shows us what it means to be a TRUE DEMOCRAT!! Conyers totally ROCKS!!
FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)how all the tv and cable channels covered it live, even showed the empty podium "awaiting Sanders remarks", then spent hours afterward discussing it?
Oh wait, they were too busy broadcasting the orange asshole.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Which is why WE ALL LOVE THEM!