Can you take two minutes to complete this survey? Faiz Shakir, BernieSanders.com Notes From The Campaign Manager

Can you take two minutes to complete this survey?

Faiz Shakir, BernieSanders.com<info@berniesanders.com>

3/21/2019 5:29 PM

To  alfred johnson  

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Alfred -

Before diving in, I want to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Faiz Shakir and I am deeply honored to be your campaign manager for the Bernie 2020 campaign.

This is a campaign built to win and planning to win from the very beginning. We have a strategic advantage that no other candidate has – the power of the people. And that is why we intend to listen to you and seek your feedback often.

Can you please take a quick minute to complete our survey below so I can get a good sense of your priorities as we build out this campaign together?

In order to win, we must convince voters that Bernie is the candidate most likely to defeat Trump, and that he's the candidate we trust to do the things he says he will do when he's in the Oval Office.

We’re off to a good start, but before we go too deep into the race I wanted to take a moment to say hello, and to say thank you for everything you’ve done to put our campaign in a position not just to win the Democratic primary and defeat Trump, but to transform our country.

Thanks again for taking a minute to fill out this survey. We'll be in touch again soon.

Best wishes,

Faiz Shakir

We'd like to hear directly from you about why you support Bernie and what you think is required to win this primary, defeat Donald Trump, and transform our country.

Take a moment to complete our brief survey to say what it will take to win.

TAKE THE SURVEY

 

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The Poor People’s Moral Action Congress Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis 3/21/2019 6:00 PM

The Poor People’s Moral Action Congress

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis<info@poorpeoplescampaign.org>

3/21/2019 6:00 PM

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Alfred, In the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, there were 25 debates and not a single question was asked about poverty or systemic racism. There was no discussion on restoring the Voting Rights Act. Issues like ecological devastation and the war economy were never fully discussed from the position of those hit first and the worst: the 140 million people who are poor and low-income in this country. And the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism was left unchallenged. This is why we are convening our own Poor People’s Moral Action Congress this June: to make sure the issues facing the 140 million poor and low-income people in this country are part of the national conversation in 2020. We are bringing together hundreds of Poor People’s Campaign members and supporters from more than 40 states across the country. We are coming back to our nation's capital to return our national conversation to the moral center of who we are as a nation and democracy.   Will you join us in Washington, D.C. this June? Sign up now to save the date! Here’s what we’ll do at our Congress to make sure the issues we are facing and the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Agenda and Demands receive the attention they deserve: Launch the Poor People’s Campaign Moral and Constitutional Budget, which will assign hard numbers to the economic and social benefits of implementing our Campaign’s demands Challenge the 2020 candidates to take up our demands and hear directly from the impacted people leading this Campaign in the states Convene our first National Freedom School to train Campaign members and supporters in fusion politics and moral movement building so they can make an even bigger impact in their states Hold congressional hearings with testimonies delivered by impacted Campaign members and leaders Let us know if you’re interested in attending on June 17-19: I'M INTERESTED! Registration fees will cover the costs of the Congress, meals and local transportation for the program. There will be special discounted rates for the poor, students and striking workers as well as discounts for groups. We are also raising scholarship funds for Campaign members. If you can’t be there in June, please consider making a donation for scholarships to cover travel and other costs for Campaign participants. DONATE $5DONATE $15DONATE $25 This can’t just be an afterthought—the systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the distorted moral narrative hurting our people all need to be front and center on every televised debate, every town hall and every legislative agenda. We need you in D.C. to make this happen. With a huge turnout, we can bring our demands straight to the policymakers who have allowed more than five years to go by since the Voting Rights Act was gutted, 37 million people to live without healthcare, 14 million families to not afford water and more than 60 million people to get paid less than $15 an hour. Join us in shaping our national conversation ahead of 2020. Click here to sign up for details and learn more about the Poor People’s Moral Action Congress. Fight poverty, not the poor! Reverend Dr. William J. Barber II and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis President of Repairers of the Breach & Director of the Kairos Center Co-Chairs of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from The Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, please click here.

 Fukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad

Amy Hendrickson<amyh@texnology.com>

3/21/2019 8:50 PM

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Fukushima at Eight: Ongoing Cover-Up of the Nuclear Hazards in Japan and Abroad

Arnie was recently interviewed on the Global Research News Hour podcast, hosted by Michael Welch. The topic of the podcast was Fukushima at 8 years and Arnie shares his understanding of the spread of nuclear contamination at Fukushima, the Japanese government’s bid to distract the public with heavy investment in and promotion of the 2020 Olympics, and the general tendency of governments and regulators to put the health of the industry above the safety of the public. Arnie also discusses the meltdown at Three Mile Island that took place 40-years ago near Harrisburg Pennsylvania on March 28th. 

To listen to the interview click Here

Don’t Miss the Nationwide Premiere of Power Struggle

Filmed over five years, this feature-length documentary chronicles the heated political battle to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant, located on the banks of the Connecticut River in southern Vermont. Power Struggle follows the unfolding drama as citizen activists and elected officials – alarmed at increasing safety violations – take on the federal government and one of the biggest nuclear power companies in America to call for closure of the reactor when its original 40-year license expires.

The film captures perspectives on all sides of the controversy, including from local residents both for and against nuclear power, elected officials (including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin), nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen, a Vermont Yankee spokesperson, and federal nuclear regulators.

Tune in to Free Speech TV on Thursday, March 28 at 8 pm ET for the national broadcast premiere of Power Struggle. 

To read more about the film follow the link Here 

 

Watch the POWER STRUGGLE Trailer from Robbie Leppzer on Vimeo.

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Chicago Bernie Sanders

Chicago

Bernie Sanders<info@berniesanders.com>

3/22/2019 2:36 PM

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Alfred -

As some of you may know, I spent four years in Chicago in the early sixties as a student at the University of Chicago.

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again. Those four years in Chicago were an extraordinary time for me and very much shaped my worldview and what I wanted to do with my life.

I should also say that while the University of Chicago was and is one of the great higher education institutions in this country, the truth is that I learned a lot more off campus than I did in classrooms.

As someone who came from a working class family, Chicago provided me, for the first time in my life, the opportunity to put two and two together in understanding how the real world worked. To understand what power was about in this country and who the people were who had that power. To learn a little bit about the causation of wars; to learn about racism and poverty and other social ills.

My years in Chicago gave me the opportunity to become involved in the civil rights movement, in the labor movement, in the peace movement and in electoral politics – experiences that significantly shaped my life.

As a student at the University of Chicago, I became involved with a civil rights organization called the Congress on Racial Equality, CORE, one of the leading civil rights groups of that period.

Now, some of you may not know this, but in the early 1960s, the University of Chicago owned segregated housing.

Being audacious young people, black and white, our chapter of CORE wanted to expose that unjust housing system. And so our CORE chapter sent white couples and black couples into the university-owned housing to pretend to look for an apartment. And you can guess what happened.

When the black couples showed up, there were just no apartments available. But a few hours later, when one of our white couples went in, somehow, mysteriously, they would have their choice of apartments.

After documenting this clear pattern of racial discrimination, the students in CORE demanded the university desegregate its housing. When they refused, we staged one of the first ever civil rights sit-ins in the North, forcing the university to acknowledge the situation and to consider serious policy changes.

While what we were doing here in Chicago at the time was significant, it came nowhere close to what young people our age were doing in the South in groups like SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We were protesting – but they were putting their lives on the line, and some were getting killed.

In 1963 I, along with a busload of other students, took a 600-mile ride from Chicago to Washington, D.C. for what remains in my mind as an unforgettable day. We went to the nation’s capital to participate in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – one of the great leaders in American history. I had the honor of being there to hear him deliver his now-famous “I Have A Dream” speech, and that was a day I have never forgotten.

That same year, we knew we had more to do in Chicago.

It had been nine years since the Brown vs Board of Education decision, but the school officials in Chicago had still refused to meaningfully desegregate the city’s public schools. Black schools were overcrowded and underfunded, with many students forced to share chairs and desks. Meanwhile, a report at the time found over 380 white classrooms were completely empty.

But instead of putting black children in those empty classrooms, the school officials decided to put old trailers on the black school grounds. We called them “Willis Wagons,” after the Chicago school superintendent of that time, Benjamin Willis.

These trailers were a monstrosity. Students would boil in the heat, and freeze in the cold. They were infested with rats. They were an insult and a disgrace – and the community fought back.

One day, many of us went to the spot where they planned to put the trailers. We were corralled by a police line and told not to cross that line.

Well, some of us did. And, of course, we were arrested and thrown into paddy wagons. We spent that night in jail, until we were bailed out the next morning by the NAACP.

The reason I tell you all of this is because my activities in Chicago taught me a very important lesson.

Whether it is the struggle against racism, or sexism, or homophobia, or corporate greed, or environmental devastation, or war and militarism or religious bigotry – real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up when people, at the grassroots level, stand up and fight back. That's a lesson I learned in Chicago, and a lesson I've never forgotten.

Have we made progress in civil rights in this country since the early 1960s? No question about it. Do we still have a very long way to go to end the institutional racism which permeates almost every aspect of our society? Absolutely.

We have, in recent years, seen a major spike in hate crimes – against blacks, and Muslims, and Jews, and Latinos and other minorities.

And, over the last number of years, we have seen a terrible level of police violence against unarmed people of color – people killed by the police who should be alive today.

We know that African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested, and almost four times as likely to experience physical force in an encounter with the police.

Today, black men are sentenced to 19 percent more jail time for committing the exact same crime as white men, and African Americans are jailed at more than 5 times the rate of whites.

All of this and more is why we are finally going to bring about real criminal justice reform in this country. We are going to end the international embarrassment of having more people in jail than any other country on earth. Instead of spending $80 billion a year on jails and incarceration, we are going to invest in jobs and education for our young people. No more private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up. No more "war on drugs." No more keeping people in jail because they're too poor to afford cash bail.

And by the way, when we talk about criminal justice reform, we're going to change a system in which tens of thousands of Americans every year get criminal records for possessing marijuana, but not one major Wall Street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008 as a result of their greed, recklessness and illegal behavior. No. They didn't go to jail. They got a trillion-dollar bailout.

Our campaign is about fundamentally ending the disparity of wealth and power in this country. But as we do that, we must speak out against the disparity within the disparity.

Today, the average black family has one-tenth the wealth of the average white family.

Today, the infant mortality rate in black communities is more than double the rate for white communities, and the death rates from cancer and almost every other disease is far higher for blacks. Black women are three and a half times more likely to die from pregnancy than white women.

Today, Flint, Michigan is still without new pipes for clean water, and there are 3,000 other Flint, Michigans across the country – neighborhoods with lead rates that were double those of Flint during the height of its crisis.

Today, redlining prevents black-owned businesses from getting loans, and predatory lending results in higher interest rates in the African American community.

Whether it is a broken criminal justice system, or massive disparities in the availability of financial services, or health disparities, or environmental disparities, or educational disparities – our job is to create a nation in which all people are treated equally. That is what we must do, and that is what we will do.

Brothers and sisters: we have an enormous amount of work in front of us and the path forward will not be easy.

But if we stand together believing in justice and human dignity, the truth is that there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

Let us go forward together.

In solidarity,

Bernie Sanders

Add your name if you agree: it’s time to transform our country and create a government that works for all of us, not just the billionaire class.

Bernie cannot do it alone. We will only succeed if we are in this fight together. Not me. Us.

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