Everyone Needs To Watch Rosario Dawson’s AMAZING INTRO Speech For Bernie Sanders

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"...Understand how significant this is. You're here because you're talking to each other. NOT because you're being encouraged by the DNC....NOT because you're being encouraged by the media,...BUT because you're talking to each other. So, understand what that means,...if Bernie doesn't take this all the way,...if we don't help him,...if we don't make sure he takes it all the way,....Net Neutrality will be pushed back upon. Debra Wasserman Schultz said 'The reason Super-Delegates exist is to specifically push-back against grass-roots organizing.' So we need you now more than ever. We need you to spread the message and talk about our future...."

Last night at a rally in San Diego, California, actress Rosario Dawson gave the best introduction speech for Bernie Sanders since rapper Killer Mike introduced him in Atlanta several months ago. Ms. Dawson, who has appeared in movies such as Sin City, Clerks II, Death Proof, Grindhouse, and Men In Black II, ripped into the DNC and emphasized how important the stakes are in this presidential race.

“..I am so happy that you’re here,” Ms. Dawson told the crowd of over 7,000 Bernie Sanders’ supporters. “Unfortunately the mass media said,’don’t even bother,’ but I’m glad you showed them what’s up...”

Ms. Dawson is referring to the overwhelming lack of media coverage Bernie Sanders has received from mainstream media outlets compared to Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. A report on the first eleven months of 2015 conducted by the Tyndall Report found Hillary Clinton received 113 minutes of coverage on CBS, ABC, and NBC nightly news broadcasts, with an additional 88 minutes dedicated to controversies surrounding her involvement in Benghazi and her private e-mail server as Secretary of State, which helped fuel her Democratic support base. In contrast, Senator Bernie Sanders received only ten minutes of coverage. While the mainstream media is partially to blame for the rise of Donald Trump as it has overwhelmingly focused on him so much that he doesn’t even need to spend money on campaign marketing and advertising, they are also partially to blame for Hillary Clinton’s victories with age demographics who receive the majority of their news from mainstream media (i.e. baby boomers).

“..The youth has been on the right side of history on every issue. They talked about those hippie college kids when they were protesting against Vietnam. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who Bernie Sanders walked with, couldn’t have done what he had done if it wasn’t for high school students who said, ‘I’m not afraid to do a sit-in.’ They didn’t listen to us when we said ‘no’ on the bailout. They didn’t talk about how beautiful and remarkable it was when people around the World marched for peace before the Iraq War,” added Ms. Dawson...'

She concluded the Bernie Sanders movement isn’t about Democrats versus Republicans, its about the 99 percent rising up and saying ‘enough is enough’ to the one percent.

“..The Democratic Party, we haven’t left them, they left us. This is an opportunity to turn the tide and change history. Do we really want someone who condoned mass incarceration? Who thinks the death penalty is OK? Who hesitates on environmental injustices and issues? Who thinks that regime change is an idea for foreign policy? No. What we need is bold leadership from a great leader whose time has come...“


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/23/everyone-needs-to-watch-rosario-dawsons-amazing-intro-speech-for-bernie-sanders-video/

[AuntPatsy]

1. Excellent actress , obviously so much more to her ...kicking...

[jwirr]

2. Beautiful. Both the woman and the speech.

[GreatGazoo]

3. great stuff

[NWCorona]

4. That's so funny

I'm watching her on Daredevil right now.

That was a good intro!

[litlbilly]

13. time to put on Men in Black 2:)

[pat_k]

5. kick 'n' rec! (nt)

[me b zola]

6. K&R!

[stellanoir]

7. ". . .not a time for incremental change. . .

It is a time for *bold leadership*. . ."

She's amazingly clear.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Rosario is great. Nice introduction.....

nt

[amborin]

9. knr

[Seeinghope]

10. Great Speech!

[senz]

11. Rosario knows exactly what's going on

We need a pep talk like that here on DU.

"If you want to beat Trump, vote Bernie."

"That candidate is the Ralph Nader, not Bernie." Why, yes, she's right.

The reprehensibles are trying to wear us down, nonstop negative stuff, hateful, tearing down, bleak, ugly spew.

They do their candidate no favors. They do themselves no favor. They do this site no favor, either.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. It was a good speech

by the way, we posted the full speech from BS

58 minutes, be forewarned

http://reportingsandiego.com/2016/03/23/13000-san-diegans-came-to-hear-senator-bernie-sanders/

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17. Thanks Nadin..

[AzDar]

14. K & R

[shireen]

15. Very impressive

She encapsulated Bernie's campaign very well, and with deep passion. I posted it on Facebook, and encourage other Bernie supporters on Facebook to do the same.

[Peace Patriot]

16. Rosario Dawson is not only brilliant, she is courageous.

I read an interview of Susan Sarandon who said that she had been asking women in the movie industry to endorse Bernie Sanders. What they replied was disturbing. They said that they do support Sanders but they are "afraid to say so publicly," and their reason was "fear of being shamed." That's all Sarandon said. So I don't think I fully understand their fear. But the upshot is clearly that FEAR is running through that traditionally Democratic industry--FEAR of opposing Clinton and the moneyed Democratic Establishment.

Doesn't surprise me, really. My impression of Clinton is that she buys people, punishes 'enemies' and makes people afraid, as well as being bought by the uber-rich.

But what DOES surprise me is that this successful actor, Rosario Dawson, is standing up and defying the Establishment with this brilliant and very public endorsement! I suspect that it may be a gauntlet thrown at the Hollywood Democratic Establishment--that she is saying, 'I dare you to tell me what to do! I dare you to blackball me! I dare you to try to shut me up! I double-dare you! Here. I. Am.!'

This is my interpretation, strictly. She herself has said nothing of the kind. But I do know a thing or two about Hollywood. I lived there for 20 years. I do know the history of Hollywood and the movie industry, and the dirty rotten role that Reagan and McCarthyism played there, ruining many peoples' careers. I also know the strong Jewish community in Hollywood, many of whose members will be delighted by a Jewish candidate for President, especially a real FDR leftist! Clinton and her Hollywood funders have to counter that. That they might be doing it partly by intimidation is, as I said, no surprise to me. I thought about all this after reading Sarandon's remarks. I don't think I'm wrong. And my guess is that Rosario Dawson is the visible part of a rebellion. I just hope the rebellion gets bigger. And I hope, of course, that she doesn't suffer retribution, if she is in danger of it.

Maybe we need to start a new 'meme': Bernie Sanders: the thinking woman's candidate. What strikes me about Dawson is not so much her brilliant acting career, as her brilliant mind. Her intro to Sanders reveals it. She has deeply analyzed our political situation. And it is revealed in her list of activist causes and groups. (See below.)



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Dawson's is a rags-to-riches story. She has acted in many films including "Men in Black II" with Will Smith, Oliver Stone's "Alexander," and Spike Lee's "25th Hour," starred in the New York hit musical "Rent" and has many other credits including several Shakespeare productions. And she also has a long list of political, social and environmental activist work. Here is her bio:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206257/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm