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Donkees's JournalFULL: Bernie Sanders Speech at Poor People's Campaign Presidential Forum - June 17th 2019
Published on Jun 18, 2019
Sen. Bernie Sanders Talks 2020 Race, Escalating Tensions With Iran - Andrea Mitchell - MSNBC
Published on Jun 18, 2019
Vermont Independent Senator and Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders joins Andrea Mitchell to talk 2020 ahead of the first democratic debate.
Trapped
Published on Jun 18, 2019
Are you truly free if you are trapped in poverty? Bernie Sanders visited life-long Alabama resident and Poor People's Campaign member, Pamela Rush, at her home in Lowndes County. Rush lives with two children on $1000 per month in a mobile home that lacks access to county sanitation services. As a result, raw sewage drains directly outside onto the ground near her home.
"What We Can Be"
Published on Mar 14, 2016
"What We Can Be" - unofficial ad
Bernie Sanders has spent his entire life fighting for economic, racial, and social justice. He knows what a just and moral nation we can become when we stand together and fight for change. Please help share his message with the world, and help us elect the President we deserve to have.
Fox News Premiere: Bernie Sanders would end employer-sponsored insurance
Premieres Jun 16, 2019
Democratic presidential Bernie Sanders joins Chris Wallace for a 'Fox News Sunday Sitdown.'
Full Interview: Senator Bernie Sanders Makes The Case For Socialism - All In - MSNBC
Published on Jun 13, 2019
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders tells Chris Hayes that socialism is akin to the New Deal.
Bernie Sanders injects a big idea into the presidential race
June 12
Excerpts:
Bernie Sanders’s big speech at George Washington University was billed as an address about “democratic socialism,” which naturally has shaped all the media attention. But in his address Wednesday afternoon, Sanders spent at least as much time talking about another, related ideal: economic rights.
First, let’s address what Sanders does not mean by an “economic bill of rights.” He’s not talking about what are commonly called “subsistence” rights, that is, a right to a bare economic minimum. He’s talking very much in the same spirit that President Franklin D. Roosevelt offered in his original proposal.
In his 1944 State of the Union speech, Roosevelt described his second bill of rights, economic rights, as a guarantor of “true individual freedom,” which requires “economic security and independence” (emphasis mine). For instance, Roosevelt’s second bill of rights included a call for “the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health.” That’s not merely saying you have a right to medical care if you’re dying; it’s a right to the resources needed to physically flourish. In Roosevelt’s telling, the full suite of economic rights are a precondition for true freedom and independence. Sanders is drawing on that tradition.
And though great strides were made in fortifying the safety net and battling poverty in the 1960s, the basic story has been that in the human rights revolution of the second half of the 20th century, the political and intellectual commitment to economic rights took a back seat.
As Moyn recounts, this was partly because of the human rights movement’s prioritization of basic freedoms and civil liberties against state violence and partly because of the triumph of neoliberal “market fundamentalism.” The result has been that, relative to human rights, far too little work has been done to push for economic rights, conceived as the baseline for a substantially more humane economic distribution as the moral alternative to what Moyn describes as the “decisive” triumph of the super rich and the “obliteration of any constraints on inequality.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/06/12/bernie-sanders-injects-big-idea-into-presidential-race
Senator Sanders interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper
Published on Jun 12, 2019
During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders makes his case for why he believes President Donald Trump is a corporate socialist.
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