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sabrina 1's JournalSen. Bernie Sanders Attends Huge NYC Climate Change March! Thank You Senator!
Over 150 countries world wide, participated in the Global People's Climate Change March. See below
Bernie Sanders was in NYC to add his support to this huge and growing Global Movement:
From the Senator's Web Site:
Senator Bernie Sanders
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And the PEOPLE DID GO GLOBAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE:
People's Climate March
From London:
From NYC:
From Paris:
From Rome:
From Berlin:
From Spain:
From Hong Kong:
From Rio De Janeiro:
From Brussels:
From Australia:
From Finland's Aland Island:
From Budapest:
There is lots more at the link.
Neil Young eg, wrote a song for the movement.
Click through to here an acoustic version of the track, Who’s Gonna Stand Up.
Ban Ki Moon, UN Sec. Gen. attended the march.
The Bishop of London spoke to the people.
And credit to JOHN KERRY for his statement:
Thanks to all who helped make this happen. Those on the streets and those who helped organize all over the world.
Australia's PM apparently isn't interested so let's hope voters there can replace him with someone who is. Australia hosted marches in several cities.
Thanks again the Sen. Bernie Sanders for his public support for this most important issue!
Run Bernie, Run!
How Not To Get The Best Possible Democratic Candidate For The White House!
Right now is when the people have the upper hand.
There are no actual candidates yet for 2016's Presidential race.
But 'feelers' for one candidate have been out there for a couple of years now.
A whole lot of Democrats are not happy with Hillary as their only choice.
One way to guarantee that the people will get someone they really do not want is to say 'however, if s/he is the nominee, I will hold my nose and vote for her anyhow'.
Why on earth would they feel compelled to even care what the people want when they are being told 'go ahead and give me what I don't want because you know I'll take it anyhow'??
Telling them NOW that if this is the only choice we have, we will not vote for her/him is a far better strategy in order to persuade them that they need to present a candidate people WANT if they want to win.
We the people are supposed to be in charge of this democracy. Acting helpless and leaving up to politicians is an abdication of duty on the part of citizens.
Isn't it time for the PEOPLE to start strategizing in order to get what THEY want?
Do we really want a candidate who has shown themselves to represent Corporate America over the People as the only choice we are given?
No? Then let them know what we DO want and this time let them know we mean it!
We get what we deserve and what we are willing to work for.
Democratic voters have a right to expect a true Democratic Candidate who represents the best interests of the PEOPLE first.
That is a fact!
But keep on telling them you are helpless and will accept whoever they force on you and they will do exactly that.
It makes no sense to show your hand at this point.
They take votes for granted and those who are the most loyal get the least attention.
Watch how they try to win over those they know they cannot take for granted!
See how often we are told when they push things like 'SS on the Deficit Table: 'but we would not get the (fill in the blank) vote if we didn't compromise!
Politics is all about compromise!! we are told!
Good, we agree! Now let them start compromising for OUR votes for a change.
How about they try to get Bernie to run?
How about we pressure them to do that?
How about we tell them 'it's either HIM or NO ONE!
How about US telling THEM: This is your only choice for a change??
No more US doing all the COMPROMISING!
Just my opinion after watching this process repeat itself over and over again, then when we have the gall to point out broken campaign promises, we are told 'you should not have expected anything else, he made it clear he was not a progressive etc etc'. Iow, blame the voters! And to an extent they are right!
Shows one thing clearly, there is NO respect for Democrats who don't make their voices heard, they are merely taken for granted and told to 'go sit down and be quiet' and are then ignored.
Bernie or some other non-corporate Democratic Candidate who will put the people's needs first.
Petro Poroshenko, current President of Ukraine, IS known as Ukraine's 'Chocolate King'
It's old news by now. He won.
That is not why I am posting the link further down in this thread.
Ukraine us a very current topic in the news right now.
DU is a place where people come to get FACTS so I am posting this to correct an apparent stunning lack of facts regarding Ukraine and its current President, Poroshenko, who is known as Ukraine's Chocolate King because he made his fortune from the production of various kinds of chocolate sweets.
THIS Jury decision alerted me to the fact that there are people here who are unfamiliar with the facts about Poroshenko and to make those facts known:
On Mon Sep 1, 2014, 01:46 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
Don't talk to me about the 'election' in Ukr. Talk to the Chocolate King who has declared
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5474161
REASON FOR ALERT
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.
ALERTER'S COMMENTS
Calls Obama "the Chocolate King". A rather racist comment, elevating his skin color over everything else.
JURY RESULTS
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Sep 1, 2014, 02:00 PM, and the Jury voted 6-1 to HIDE IT.
Juror #1 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Referring to Obama as "the chocolate king" is racist, vote to hide
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: WTF??!
Juror #4 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: Not sure if poster is referring to Obama. Probably is referring to the Ukraine's current president.
I am voting to hide for a different reason. The poster is calling those who disagree with them McCarthyist. That is a violation of the TOS
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Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: Oops - the "Chocolate King" refers to Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Poroshenko . Try the Google before alerting next time.
Juror #7 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
I am wondering if anyone who may have posted anything referring to the man known as 'Ukraine's Chocolate King'has had a post hidden for referring to him as such.
This article, eg, is from The Guardian:
Chocolat Tycoon Heads For Landside Victory in Ukraine Presidential Election
Presidential hopeful Petro Poroshenko meets supporters in Uma. Photograph: Reuters
The chocolate king
Created in 1996, Poroshenko's company Roshen produces more than 300 kinds of sweets, cakes and biscuits at factories in Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania and Hungary.
Perhaps top of the list is the slightly unimaginatively named Cherries in chocolate, a cherry liqueur smothered in dark chocolate.
They are certainly sweet, but then people in this part of the world are famous for their sweet tooth. "They are tasty and always of decent quality," said Lyudmila Miroshnychenko, from Kherson, southern Ukraine. Cherries in chocolate, for her, is a treat to take with coffee in the afternoon.
Then there is Evening Kiev, a sort of Ferrero Rocher for the east, though frankly most ambassadors in Kiev haven't had much time of late for spoiling guests.
There is an entire range of chocolate bars that retail for around 20p – cheaper than imported Mars bars or Snickers. But many Ukrainians prefer the smaller chocolate sweets in colourful wrappers purchased by weight, some of which have retained brand names that were popular in Soviet times, like Camomile or Red poppy.
Apparently Poroshenko chose to sell his company so that the 'politics will be taken out of chocolate for good'. See article above.
In case anyone else decides to refer to Poroshenko by his well known nickname, it might be a good idea to attach a link to explain the reference and do not assume, as I did, that everyone posting about this most important news story unfolding in Ukraine, knows a whole lot about the man who won the election
and is now president of that country.
Edited to add link to jury decision which was cut off in the copy and paste, but pointed out by DUer muriel_volestrangler
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Leave Discussionist Alone.
If you don't like it, that is your right.
Solution to that is 'don't go there'.
For those of us who enjoy putting down Right Wing talking points, Discussion is a perfect place to do so.
I am confident enough in our positions on the issues that I have no problem engaging the Right on those issues at all.
Haven't been there for a while due to RL obligations. But definitely plan to return.
Thanks to the Admin for providing us with a place where we CAN challenge the nutty views of the Far Right if we choose to do so!
I am editing this to add information I have received since I responded to the calls to 'shut Discussionist down'.
Four juries on Discussionist hid, unanimously, the vile comments made by a member there. 7-0 for all four juries. Three other juries hid three more of his/her posts.
According to his/her profile, Posting Privileges have been revoked.
Kudos to the juries for acting so swiftly and to the admins for removing his/her posting privileges.
Just wanted to add this information as some people were under the impression that nothing had been done about those vile, nasty comments. And rather than post the information over and over again, I am posting it here.
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