Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gestures while speaking to nurses during a visit to the National Nurses United office, Monday, August 10, 2015, in Oakland, Calif.
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Aggressive protestors with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement seem to have a lot of leverage with the more progressive – and more pliable – Democrat candidates for president. He shook hands and posed for photos with supporters for about 15 minutes and then left. We are going to end… “Most of us won’t even know that this happened”. Adrian Florido, of NPR’s Code Switch team, explores what’s behind the tension.
Glenn Beck said the “black lives matter” protesters who shoved aside Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at an event Saturday in Seattle, forcing Sanders to leave before giving his speech, represent the “anger inside of us” and shows that “it is boiling over in all of the wrong ways”. Though Clinton has spoken out about the Black Lives Matter movement, she hasn’t explicitly laid out a platform to address racial issues.
Clinton, who is seeking to become the nation’s first female president, met privately with the executive board of the AFL-CIO in late July, as did Sanders, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Virginia Sen.
The sheer numbers of how many people come out to support Sanders is a testament to the type of campaign Sanders wants to achieve. I was told…
“It is very important that we say the words ‘black lives matter, ‘” Symone Sanders said in her speech before the candidate took the stage.
“We are going to create an economy that works for all people, not just a handful of billionaires”, he said, according to Bloomberg.
Hours before the rally, Sanders won the endorsement of the 180,000-member National Nurses United at a live and virtual event in Oakland. And Oso believes that these impromptu protests are a justifiable tactic. Bernie Sanders by two black activistslast Saturday. The Portland event drew over 28,000 people.
DeMoro said the union would “join up with the [Sanders] campaign to help fuel it”, adding that “our paradigm isn’t money, it’s involvement and engagement”.
“That will never happen with me”, Trump said during a televised news conference on Tuesday. Can y’all do that for me?
FLORIDO: Roderick Morrow, a Twitter activist and comedian who’s taken a lead in skewering Sanders online, says the Vermont senator’s campaign can’t expect activists to keep quiet just because Sanders sees himself as an ally.
Later that evening at the University of Washington, Senator Sanders spoke about how he could combat institutional racism and reform the criminal justice system.
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He insisted he’s on the right track and has been “proven right” by his double-digit lead in the GOP polls when a reporter asked about his penchant for fiery rhetoric.
