Feel the Bern ROSE PARADE March Was GREAT!

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I have lived in Los Angeles over 35 years but I confess I never went to a Rose Parade until today. The event was organized by Carlos Marroquin (white t-shirt and microphone left of center in picture). Carlos and his team relied on Facebook.

We gathered in Singer Park very early. By the time I got there at 8AM there were about 250 berners. When we got moving around 9:30, more than 300 walked the 6 ½ miles of the Rose Parade after the floats and the fire department, the sheriff SWAT teams in their two armored cars and four Jesus freaks. The spectators stayed on the sidewalks and on the bleachers all the way. Nobody else was behind us.

One of the bleachers was full of Iowa fans as you can see on this picture wearing yellow. I hope the word gets back to Iowa millennials, they hold the key for Bernie on February 1st. Sorry about the game Hawkeyes, but you were at the Rose Bowl. This initial report may be off on the multiple driving forces beyond immigration that brought the volunteers together for the march. But it reports that there were 700,000 spectators.

During the march, I think we had 4-5 blocks of berners with all sorts of interesting things beyond banners. There was a giant Bernie that escaped my pictures. Drums, guitars, music, masks, etc. The good thing is that nothing happened and the handful of times that some spectators started saying bullying things against Bernie, we completely overpowered them with our chants. The whole thing was a lot of fun and the day was great. And we got the word out about Bernie to thousands of people.


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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/01/02/1465402/-Feel-the-Bern-Rose-Parade-March-was-great

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1. What a great way to get the word out!