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Donkees's JournalLIVE 10AM March 28 - Sen. Sanders and Rep. Clyburn Introduce Bill to Expand Community Health ...
Scheduled for Mar 28, 2019
House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hold a press conference to introduce the Community Health Center and Primary Care Workforce Expansion Act of 2019. This legislation increases funding for community health centers and ensures that the 28 million Americans who get primary care from community health centers continue to receive the care they need.
Shaun King & Destiny Harris: Bernie's History Matters
Published on Mar 27, 2019
Who you are, who you fight for and who you fight against is always relevant.
Many thanks to SenSanders for speaking with the 80 students who participated in #VermontDay ...
https://twitter.com/EMKInstitute/status/1110704003577458688Garrison Nelson: The vanilla socialism of Bernie Sanders
By Commentary
Mar 26 2019, 6:55 PM
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Garrison Nelson, who is the Elliot A. Brown Professor of Law, Politics, and Political Behavior Emeritus at the University of Vermont and senior fellow at the John McCormack Graduate School of Public Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston. He is the author most recently of “John William McCormack: A Political Biography.”
Excerpts:
It was Sanders’ presidential campaign that got me out of semi-retirement, when I gave close to 100 interviews to reporters in the United States and foreign countries. American reporters were mostly interested in horse-race questions — How well will he do? Can he win? I found those questions tedious and repetitious. It was the international press that had the most interesting questions: Reporters from Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Japan, China, South Korea, and even Brazil were fascinated by Bernie’s candidacy. Since many of these countries had socialists in government, the question asked by most was about his commitment to democratic socialism. “What kind of socialist is he?” they would ask. And I generally responded, “Bernie is a vanilla socialist with a major focus on the concentration of wealth at the top and income inequality for the rest.” Bernie’s agenda had no far-reaching five-year plans. Collectivized agriculture and nationalized industry were not part of his program. This was quite dissimilar from the socialisms of many other countries. They seemed perplexed that Bernie’s mild socialism would be so controversial in the United States. My answer was simple: During the Cold War socialism was seen as the “gateway drug” to communism, the philosophy then espoused by our mortal enemy — the Soviet Union.
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I watched in fascination as Bernie went on to win three more contests for mayor and to resume his statewide career in a failed 1986 campaign for governor against Madeleine Kunin and his close contest for the U.S. House in 1988 with ex-Lt. Gov. Peter Smith. Bernie’s race in 1990 was the only national race in Vermont that year; it was not a presidential year and neither Senate seat was up for election. Bernie’s narrow defeat two years earlier and Peter Smith’s electoral vulnerability made this contest one to watch. So much so that David Broder of the Washington Post, the nation’s most influential political reporter, came to Vermont to see for himself what the Sanders candidacy was all about. Broder and I had communicated earlier and I asked him, “Are there other candidacies like this around the country?” He replied “There is no other candidacy like Sanders’ anywhere in the country. And there is nowhere in the country other than Vermont where it has a probability of succeeding.”
As always, Broder was right. Bernie won election that year to begin his 29-year career in Congress — longer than any president had ever served in that body, including Lyndon Johnson. Now, as I work in my UVM office on a book detailing the oft-tumultuous relationships between presidents and speakers of the U.S. House, I no longer expect the torrent of interview requests that gobbled up much of 2015-2016. Others have chosen to be experts on the Sanders candidacy and I wish them well.
But he’s still a vanilla socialist to me.
https://vtdigger.org/2019/03/26/garrison-nelson-vanilla-socialism-bernie-sanders/
Full Interview: Bernie Sanders On Medicare for All - All In with Chris Hayes.
Published on Mar 26, 2019
Bernie Sanders not backing down in the fight for Medicare For All on All In with Chris Hayes.
BernieSanders on #inners on why we need #MedicareForAll. Nothing less.
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1110699396230844416Love Will Conquer Hate: Bernie Visits Islamic Center in California
Published on Mar 26, 2019
Following the horrific mass shooting in New Zealand, we must come together to show the world that love will conquer hate.
The Brooklyn Bridge: A Journey Through Time
Published on Oct 2, 2017
The Iconic Brooklyn Bridge from modernity to its Construction
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Inside the limestone and granite structures that support the on-ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge, designer John A. Roebling originally envisioned shopping arcades, to be called the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage. Today, the towers and the anchorages on both the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides are closed, but open windows on the Manhattan side give an inkling to the spaces inside.
It is known that the vaults were constructed first in 1876, likely to appease distributors like Luyties and Racky’s whose storage facilities were demolished to build the bridge. A faded logo for Pol Rogers, the French champagne house favored by Winston Churchill, is still visible. The vaults were closed during World War I and repurposed for non-alcohol storage uses during Prohibition. In 1934, six months after the repeal of Prohibition, the city ceremoniously turned over the keys to a new tenant, Anthony Oechs & Co., an alcohol distributor, at a party inside the vaults attended by hundreds of revelers.
https://untappedcities.com/2018/05/24/inside-the-champagne-vaults-of-the-brooklyn-bridge-on-the-135th-anniversary-photos/
Danny DeVito on why he backs Bernie Sanders for the US presidency
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1110163776324685826Bernie Is Not a Wind Sock
The Sanders campaign is a political opportunity unlike any we’ve seen in our lifetimesMonday, March 25, 2019
by Norman Solomon
Excerpts:
The Sanders campaign is a nationwide struggle for the kind of power that Dr. King extolled as “love implementing the demands of justice.” In his words, “Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose.”
The Sanders campaign is a political opportunity unlike any we’ve seen in our lifetimes. With profound purpose, it raises the stakes to fit the magnitude of what is at stake; it challenges in national electoral terms the kind of destructive domination that has ruled with dispiriting and deadly results. “We’re going to have to fight Wall Street, neoliberals, those who don’t want the change to come,” Turner said.
Alone among the candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders has always been part of progressive movements. The only way that the campaign can overcome corporate media, Wall Street and other power centers of the establishment will be with massive bottom-up mobilization in communities across the country. As Bernie said on Sunday, “We are going to put together an unprecedented grassroots campaign.”
“It’s hard not to be a bit wary of people who know how the wind is blowing and now are blowing with it,” I told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who quoted me in an article that appeared hours before the rally. “Bernie is part of movements that create the wind. Bernie is not a wind sock.”
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/03/25/bernie-not-wind-sock
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