BROOKLYN IS BERNING: Bernie Sanders Scores Support From The Indie Music Community

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“...I like almost everything about what Bernie Sanders says and I'm incredibly glad he's saying it,” Sheff says. “I think these ideas — that there shouldn't be a different set of rules for the rich than for everyone else, that giant corporations and banks need to be broken down and restricted, that we need to take immediate and dramatic action on climate change, that there should be a carbon tax — need to be out there in everyone's faces....”

The 2016 presidential race is heating up, and New Yorkers are beginning to “feel the Bern.” The pun-worthiest of Democratic candidates, Senator Bernie Sanders, is in the city this week, and his goal is to fire up his supporters (and hopefully gain some new ones) as the nation approaches its first primaries in February. Though New York’s closed primary won’t take place until April, the impact of Sanders's anti-capitalist stump speeches hit home as he spoke out against Wall Street from just a few subway stops away, in midtown Manhattan. Meanwhile, his campaign made moves in Brooklyn with its first official benefit concert, at Baby’s All Right, which continues this evening.

Thus far, the bulk of Sanders’s campaigning efforts have been spearheaded by smaller grassroots groups. Last September, we reported the story of Bushwick Berners, a community outreach group that spends many Saturday mornings canvassing on behalf of the senator. To drum up interest among Bushwick’s young, hip, and artsy, the organization held a benefit show at Shea Stadium to register voters, donating the proceeds from merch and the $8 cover charge directly to the campaign. Last month, Bushwick Berners held a similar event at the Gateway, over several floors, but kept the price of admission at eight bucks.

'He might be a senator, but he's from the 99 percent. And he wears it like a badge of honor.'

The campaign-sanctioned Baby’s All Right event has already taken on a markedly different feel from those scrappy DIY benefits, for better or worse. The venue has been transformed into a sort of Sanders fundraising HQ, with computers set up to log names and emails of potential donors, volunteers, and petition signers; a photo booth with progressive props; a table full of books, tees, and ball caps for sale; a friendly-looking cardboard likeness of the man himself; and a huge banner spanning the stage. Though it was rumored that Sanders himself would show, that didn’t happen; instead, a closely regimented schedule of musicians took their turns on the stage, punctuated by speakers from various organizations that endorse Sanders espousing his various virtues.


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1. BAM! n/t

[azmom]

2. Bernie is the original hipster. I love it.

Latinos love Bernie too, specially Mixters (mexican hipsters).

[rhett o rick]

3. The People support Sanders, not billionaires. nm

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Segami.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. It's all over for Hillary

She might as well drop out of the race.

As the indie music community goes, so goes the Democratic primary race.

It's over.