Bernie Sanders

Republicans Lead In Obamacare Replacement, Act Now

By Margaret Flowers for Health Over Profit. Roll Call reports that the Republicans introduced legislation, the Obamacare Replacement Act, in both the House and the Senate. The plan, known as the Sanford-Paul Plan for its lead sponsors, has the support of the strongest Republican caucus, the Freedom Caucus. Leaving insurance plans up to the market to determine means that low cost plans will cover very little and the fact will remain that people in the US will only be able to receive health care if they can afford it. In order to make progress in the demand for National Improved Medicare for All, we need a companion bill to HR 676 in the Senate. Senator Sanders, a long-time advocate for single payer health care, is the most obvious senator to be the lead sponsor but he has refused to make a commitment to introducing single payer legislation. We must push Senator Sanders to introduce a senate companion bill to HR 676 quickly.

We Need To Attack Dem Establishment In Front Of Liberals

February 5, 2017 Caitlin Johnstone, www.newslogue.com Strategize! Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

By Caitlin Johnstone for Newslogue. We need to take away the dominance of political discourse away from liberals. We need to fight it, and fight it hard, because if we don’t we can kiss this whole revolution goodbye. You can’t have a grassroots movement that you’re not allowed to talk about. A progressive revolution cannot possibly coexist with a conspiracy of silence. They are mutually exclusive. How do we fight it? We speak the truth, even when our voice shakes. We publicly share our perspectives, and when our liberal friends close in, we tell them why they’re wrong. We can be polite (if we feel they deserve it), but we must be unyielding. We speak our truth wherever we’re at, whenever we can. The foremost battleground for the progressive awakening is in your own social circles. If we can only speak about this in hushed voices, with a select few woke friends or in secret Facebook groups, then our movement dies here. Kiss it goodbye. So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodnight. We will never be more than a fringe movement if we’re not able to openly and directly resist the political establishment.

Anti-Trump Protests Will Fail If Tied To Democratic Party

January 22, 2017 John Stauber, www.counterpunch.org Strategize! Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, Populism, Trump

By John Stauber for CounterPunch. The massive, continuing protests against President Trump, #NotMyPresident, are not a movement and will only benefit Trump. They are an emotional tactic devoid of strategy, and one that has made Trump stronger and stronger since it was first unleashed during the Republican primaries at the beginning of 2016. ‘Trump is a racist narcissist pig, unfit to exist, much less govern,’ or so the meme goes. But despite losing the popular vote he mat slammed Hillary and the Democrat Party. The GOP scaredy cats who were fleeing him en masse he actually rescued and rose them to control both houses of Congress. As of this writing the Trump protests have not abated, and now this smells of serious failure, the type of total and complete butt kicking that Republicans gave to the so-called Wisconsin Uprising.

Cuomo Proposes Tuition Free College For Middle Class

January 4, 2017 From Press Room, www.governor.ny.gov Create! Andrew Cuomo, Bernie Sanders, Education, Free College, Tuition

From Press Room of Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Green Party of NY, in a press release, responded to Cuomo’s tuition plan and called it inadequate, really a fraud by a false progressive: “The Green Party of New York called the Cuomo tuition-plan unveiled today wholly inadequate and said the reports of it making college free or affordable-for-all were false. The Greens pointed out that Cuomo’s plan does not cover the $14,000 in yearly room, board and fees and would still leave students with $55,000 worth of debt from SUNY/CUNY 4-year schools. Party officers also said that it does nothing to address three decades worth of funding cuts at state schools. The Green Party called on Governor Cuomo and the Legislature to fully fund state schools and make college completely free, including tuition, room, board and fees so that students leave with no debt.

Sanders, Single Payer And Death By Democrat

December 3, 2016 Russell Mokhiber, www.singlepayeraction.org Organize! Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Health Care, Single payer health care

By Russell Mokhiber of Single Payer Action. Lori Kearns is the health policy advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). She’s been making the rounds in recent weeks telling single payer supporters that Senator Sanders will not introduce his single payer bill into the Senate next year. Why not? Because party unity is more important than single payer. Sanders apparently believes that single payer will get in the way of electing a Democratic Senate in 2018. Wouldn’t want to confront Democratic Senate candidates with the deaths of their constituents due to Obamacare, would you? One reason why Sanders soared during the primary was his constant refrain that we need to cover every American with a single payer health care system. This resonated with the American people...

Behind The Booing: A Sanders Delegate Reflects On DNC Protests

August 11, 2016 Lauren Steiner, www.truth-out.org Organize! Bernie Sanders, DNC, Protests

By Lauren Steiner for Truthout - It all started three weeks before the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which I was attending as a Bernie Sanders delegate from California. I started Los Angeles for Bernie in June of 2015, so going to the convention was the culmination of my year-long journey for Bernie. Little did I know that Sanders' actions would leave a vacuum for me and my fellow delegates to fill. Like most supporters, I was disappointed to see Sanders endorse Hillary Clinton two weeks before the convention.

Sanders Supporters Protests Against Dems Helping Create Local Change

July 30, 2016 Molly Knefel, www.truth-out.org Resist! Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Protests

By Molly Knefel for Truthout - Democrats in Philadelphia have spent this week reckoning with powerful divisions within their party, most visibly from Bernie Sanders delegates attempting to push the party to the left. The big question of the week is: what will the movement inspired by Sanders look like now that Hillary Clinton has secured the nomination? On Tuesday, a small group of elected officials from around the country gathered at the Ethical Humanist Society of Philadelphia.

Sanders Fans Make Scene In Neon Green

July 29, 2016 Peter Schroeder, www.thehill.com Resist! Bernie Sanders, DNC

By Peter Schroeder for The Hill - PHILADELPHIA — Bernie Sanders’s delegates are making their presence known on the final day of the Democratic National Convention — by wearing can’t-miss neon-green T-shirts. Backers of the Democratic presidential runner-up have disrupted convention proceedings with protests inside and outside the Wells Fargo Center, charging the Democratic Party did not treat him fairly in his primary fight. But as Hillary Clinton prepares to take the stage and accept the party’s presidential nomination Thursday, Sanders backers say they want to be seen, but not to make a scene.

In Defense Of My Fellow Sanders Delegates

July 28, 2016 Tom Gallagher, www.commondreams.org Resist! Bernie Sanders, DNC

By Tom Gallagher for Common Dreams - By now everyone who cares to knows that some Bernie Sanders delegates did some booing on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. Even booed Sanders himself when he spoke in support of Hillary Clinton. And then some of them even walked out of the convention hall after the roll call finally gave Clinton the nomination. Understandably, the usual condemnation has followed – from the usual sources. Well, I’m a delegate who did no booing and did no walking, but I want to say a few words in defense of my confreres.

Bernie Sanders Delegates Mad As Hell At DNC; Wondering What’s Next

July 27, 2016 Chloe Angyal, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, DNC

By Chloe Angyal for The Huffington Post - PHILADELPHIA ― Jim Boydston was hoarse. He’d been talking all day, and yelling all night, and at the Democratic National Convention, the days and the nights are very long. But hoarseness didn’t stop him from singing, and in the middle of the lobby of the Marriott hotel in Center City, he belted out a song about Bernie Sanders and his fight to protect the American people from corporate greed.

Nina Turner Allies Hold Press Event To Defend Prominent Sanders’ Surrogate

July 27, 2016 Jon Queally, www.commondreams.org Resist! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders

By Jon Queally for Common Dreams - Allies of Nina Turner are holding a press event inside the media tent at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday at 5:45pm local time. Accoring to a press release by National Nurses United (NNU), "An all-star list of performers, including Susan Sarandon, Danny Glover, Rosario Dawson, Shailene Woodley, and Kendrick Sampson, will headline a media availability today to respond to efforts by the Democratic National Committee to silence former Ohio State Senator Nina Turner, a leading and prominent African American surrogate for Sen. Bernie Sanders."

Bernie Sanders Supporters Just Staged Massive Walkout At DNC

July 27, 2016 Zach Cartwright, www.usuncut.com Resist! Bernie Sanders, DNC, Philadelphia

By Zach Cartwright for US Uncut - Bernie Sanders delegates are leaving the Wells Fargo Center in droves, protesting the Democratic National Committee’s bias toward Hillary Clinton throughout the primary process. In a video tweeted by NBC News’ Monica Alba, Sanders’ most ardent supporters are seen walking out, holding signs and chanting “Show me what Democracy looks like! This is what Democracy looks like!” NPR’s Asma Khalid also tweeted video of Sanders supporters chanting “Walk out! Walk out!” after the nomination vote.

People’s Convention In Philadelphia Builds Plans For Next Steps

July 24, 2016 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, People's Convention

By Staff for People's Revolution. Hundreds gathered in Philadelphia on Saturday, July 23rd, at The People’s Convention to kick off a week of people-powered grassroots alternatives to the 2016 DNC convention. The event included the ratification of a political platform, workshops, and a movement building World Cafe. It was held at the Arch Street Quaker Meeting House, at 320 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA. The day’s events ended with Green party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein and former state senator Nina Turner giving impassioned speeches to attendees. Participants were encouraged to keep the spirit of democracy alive by engaging with the political process beyond the campaign. Stein and Turner showed the omnipartisan nature of the convention. Turner was one of Senator Bernie Sanders key surrogates. As she spoke to the crowd about the accomplishments of the Sanders campaign people applauded regularly. Turner said she was a proud Democrat and did not have any intention of leaving the party, uring Sanders supporters to work inside the party to change it. Stein, will be nominated by the Green Party at the August 4th to 7th Green Party presidential nominating convention in Houston, gave a rousing speech that covered a wide range of issues calling for the political revolution to be continued outside of the Democratic Party.

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