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Bernie Sanders

The End of the Reagan Era

February 25, 2016 Staff, www.piketty.blog.lemonde.fr , ,
By Staff of Le Monde - How should we interpret the incredible success of the ‘socialist’ Bernie Sanders in the American Primaries? The Vermont senator now has the lead over Hillary Clinton amongst the Democrat supporters under 50 years and only the senior citizens’ vote has enabled Hillary to maintain her advantage. Faced with the Clinton electoral machine and the conservatism of the major media, Bernie will perhaps not win the primary. But it has been demonstrated that another Sanders, possibly younger and less white, could one day soon win the American presidential elections and change the face of the country.

Founder Of American Indian Movements Asks Sanders About Treaties

February 22, 2016 Staff, www.vimeo.com , ,
By Staff of The UpTake - Clyde Bellecourt, whose Indigenous name is Nee-gon-we-way-we-dun (which means "Thunder Before the Storm”), took the microphone at a forum in Minnesota and makes a speech about the history of abuse of Indigenous Peoples and asks Bernie Sanders if he is elected president will he honor treaties the US made with Native Americans. Bellecourt founded the American Indian Movement with David Banks, Herb Powless, and Eddie Benton Banai, among others in 1968 and was elected its first chairman.

Newsletter – Democracy, Not Corporatocracy

January 23, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org , , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese forPopular Resistance. What does a corporatocracy look like? Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, says, “the sovereign state is obsolete.” Instead, WEF’s goal is to give a greater role for corporations in global governance through “40 Global Agenda Councils and industry-sector bodies.” In essence, the Global Redesign Initiative of the World Economic Forum seeks to privatize government. The next battle to stop corporate government on a global scale will be the TPP. Stopping the TPP will be a tremendous victory of popular power over corporate power. We can stop the World Economic Forum's vision of a global governance redesigned into a corporatocracy and create a world of popular democracy for a livable future for everyone.

What Happens To The Bernie Sanders Movement If He Loses?

January 23, 2016 George Lakey, www.wagingnonviolence.org ,
By George Lakey for Waging Nonviolence - The corrupted system, however, does not lead me to dismiss Bernie Sanders’ campaign for the Democratic nomination for president. He and the many people working with him have already contributed mightily to the task of preparing Americans for a living revolution. How so? First, he articulates clearly truths about our system that many Americans have figured out, but have wondered — for good reason — if they are alone. In a recent ABC/Washington Post poll, 68 percent agreed that we live in a country whose economic system favors the rich rather than the rest of us.

Mic Check! Bernie Sanders Swallows Occupy’s Microphone

January 22, 2016 Marisa Holmes, www.internationaltimes.it ,
By Marisa Holmes for International Times - There are still barricades around Liberty Square. More than four years after the eviction, New York City and Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of the park, have physically enclosed the space. Cars parked on nearby streets bear the logo of the new NYPD special task force for handling protests, the Strategic Response Group. The government is still concerned about the possibility of occupation, and clearly intends to prevent it from happening ever again. Occupy Wall Street challenged the legitimacy of the American state.

Obama’s Siren Song, Jill Stein And Medea Benjamin

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.acronymtv.com , , , , , ,
By Staff of Acronym TV - This week on Acronym TV: The YES MEN strike again!, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink on Obama’s foreign policy legacy, Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein on the #AfterBern and the Obama #SOTU and Dennis breaks down Obama’s Siren song

Acronym TV: Greed Is Not Good

January 9, 2016 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com , , , ,
By Dennis Trainor, Jr. for Acronym TV. TransCanada lost its bid to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Now it is using NAFTA and the US Federal courts to seek $15 billion damages – and they way I understand NAFTA, they just might win. All the more reason to make one final push to defeat NAFTA’s big brother in waiting: that Trojan Horse gently knocking at the wall that will usher in a global corporate coup: that is right people, it is time once again to take action against the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Trump Goes To Vermont, Exaggerates Crowd, Constantly Protested

January 9, 2016 Jean Ann Esselink, www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com , , ,
By Jean Ann Esselink for NCRM - Presidential hopeful Donald Trump did nothing to distinguished himself as a concerned leader of the American people tonight, when he directed his security guards to not only "throw out" protesters from his campaign rally, but to "confiscate" their coats. The Trump campaign rally was held in Burlington, Vermont, hometown of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. Though security attempted to weed Sanders supporters out at the door by allowing only people willing to say they were Trump voters to enter...

Acronym TV 2015 Year in Review: War, Protest and Politics

December 21, 2015 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com , , , , , , , , ,
By Dennis Trainor, Jr. for Acroynm TV. Dennis Trainor, Jr. or Acroynm TV takes a look back on some of the biggest stories of 2015 including what to do about the threat of ISIS abroad and what to think of the San Bernardino mass shooting at home; from the unlikely rise of a socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont and the ugly reality of real estate mogul Donald Trump’s appeal; his stint working with Jill Stein, #BlackLivesMatter puts a focus on racism at universities, the cost of Manifest Destiny's Child, American Empire, in Syria and the Middle East, what could we do without all of that spending on the military? Trainor takes a look at all of that and more in the Acronym TV 2015 year in review.

Sanders’ Climate Plan: Insufficient & Outdated After Paris Agreement

December 18, 2015 Margaret Klein Salamon and Ezra Silk, www.theclimatemobilization.org ,
By Margaret Klein Salamon and Ezra Silk for The Climate Mobilization - For years, advocates of action on climate change have debated the merits of renewables versus nuclear energy and emissions trading schemes versus carbon taxes. Yet the pace of the transition to zero emissions — which will ultimately determine the amount of climate devastation we suffer and the economic approach we take — has rarely been a subject of interest. In the wake of the Paris Agreement, that is fortunately beginning to change.

Cooks And Janitors At U.S. Capitol Strike Against British Company

November 17, 2015 Alan Pyke, www.thinkprogress.org , ,
By Alan Pyke for Think Progress - Workers who serve food at the United States Capitol went on strike Tuesday morning to protest their low wages and call attention to retaliatory actions they say their employer has taken against workers who want to unionize. That company, Restaurant Associates, holds the federal contract to operate the cafeterias in the Capitol Visitors Center and in the Senate itself. The government contracts out janitorial and food service work at many public buildings, paying taxpayer money to private companies rather than employing service workers directly.

Justice For Palestine, ExxonMobil Busted, #BerntheDNC

October 24, 2015 Dennis Trainor Jr, www.acronymtv.com , ,
By Dennis Trainor, Jr for Acronym TV - Segment 1: Top Stories of the week. - Benjamin Netanyahu Blames a Palestinian For The Holocaust. - Secret Political Prisons in the United States. - ExxonMobil’s Climate Change Lies. Segment 2 [ 10:24 ] : Time To Support the BDS Movement. Segment 3 [ 20:58 ]: How Bernie Can Win the Presidency: #BerntheDNC (an interview with David DeGraw).

Socialism With An American Face

October 23, 2015 Gar Alperovitz, www.america.aljazeera.com ,
By Gar Alperovitz for Aljazeera - Sen. Bernie Sanders’ public defense of socialism in the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate has kicked off America’s first major discussion of the idea in more than a generation. Columnists, talk show hosts and Donald Trump have all joined in. Most of the discussion, however, has been wildly misleading, and almost all of it has bypassed some of the most interesting forms of a very American and practical form of socialism emerging throughout the United States. Sanders was clear about what he meant by socialism, pointing to Denmark as a positive example.

Black Lives Matter Not Endorsing Presidential Candidate

September 20, 2015 Jesse J. Holland, www.bigstory.ap.org , , ,
By Jesse J. Holland for AP. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Black Lives Matter network will skip a presidential endorsement but keep up its political activism by confronting candidates about the treatment of African-Americans in the United States, one of the group's founders says. In an Associated Press interview, Alicia Garza discussed the organization's refusal to settle on a preferred candidate in the 2016 race to succeed President Barack Obama and pledged to press ahead with protests and interruptions during the campaign. "Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen," said Garza, who spoke at the 7th Annual Black Women's Roundtable Policy Forum last week.

Behind The Shiny Veneer Of Seattle’s White Liberalism

August 20, 2015 Rachael DeCruz and Gerald Hankerson, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , ,
By Rachael DeCruz and Gerald Hankerson in The Huffington Post - When two young black women from #BlackLivesMatter disrupted a rally that Bernie Sanders was speaking at, we saw a crowd of progressive, mainly white liberals spiral into anger, frustration, and even hate. If the conversation stays focused on debating the tactics used by the activists, we're missing the point. Were the actions of these women uncomfortable to watch? Yes. Did they upend a carefully planned event that progressive organizers had spent months working on? Yes. Did they use the most effective tactics, in the most effective way? That question detracts from the bigger, and far more important question of what it means to be a white ally in the fight to dismantle systemic racism. If two people's actions cause someone to revoke their support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, it begs the question of whether their support was ever there to begin with.
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