August 24, 2019

Bernie Sanders - DNC Summer Meeting - San Francisco, CA - Aug 23, 2019

Published on Aug 26, 2019
Watch Bernie's full remarks at the DNC Summer Meeting in California.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1165064316959297536

August 23, 2019

If you take climate change seriously, get on the Bernie bus

August 23 at 4:16 PM

Excerpt:

If you really think the world is on the edge of catastrophe, are you going to waste your vote on a pretend climate-change “policy,” or go all in with Sanders ?

I’m hoping Sanders is the nominee. A choice, not an echo campaign on climate change, is what we need. “There ain’t no middle ground.” Let’s put that to the people in a Bernie Sanders-Donald Trump vote. Sweep aside the pretenders and get to the candidate who is genuinely serious about changing everything to save Mother Earth. That’s Sanders. By about 14 trillion bucks total.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/23/bernie-sanders-offers-clear-choice-climate-change/

August 23, 2019

Transcript - Bernie Sanders Speech to the DNC Summer Meeting

August 23rd 2019

In his DNC speech, Bernie Sanders says Democrats must reject incrementalism and embrace transformative change

Excerpt:

For the future of our country and the Democratic Party, let us be honest with one another. As we head into the 2020 election, there is no longer, in my view, a choice between incrementalism and the transformative change that the working families of this country are crying out for.

Playing it safe according to the old rules is the most dangerous cost of all, and a course of action that could very well cost us this election.

So I'm asking everybody here to stand up (and) make a pledge.

And that is that as a party we commit ourselves to being as bold and as brave as the great Democratic Party of history was during past national emergencies.

This is the party, the great Democratic Party that stood as FDR called out at his time up against the economic royalists. I call them the billionaire class and he stood up against them. And he pushed legislation through that provided millions of jobs, dignity and security to the families of America.

This is the party that stood up to fascism and won WWII.

This is the party that stood up to racism and passed landmark civil rights legislation.

This is the party that stood up to homophobia and passed gay rights legislation.

This is the party that stood up to the conservative and big money establishment and passed Medicare and Medicaid.

In other words, in some of the most pivotal moments in American history, this is the party that rose to the challenge, that refused to be timid and stood up to the most powerful special interests of their time.

And this is the party that won historic election victories as it successfully fought for transformative change. Brothers and sisters, this is our time.

https://bernie.substack.com/p/bern-notice-bernie-to-dnc-the-time

August 23, 2019

🔥 Town Hall on College Affordability and Student Debt

Scheduled for Aug 23, 2019
The student debt crisis is holding back an entire generation. We're in California talking about our plan to make college tuition free and cancel all student debt.

August 23, 2019

@BernieSanders at #dncsummermeeting

https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1165013691533647874

August 23, 2019

Dream Defenders Millennial Roundtable

Uploaded on Aug 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders sat down with Phillip Agnew and Dream Defenders to talk about the major issues affecting young people today, including student debt, health care and criminal justice reform.

August 23, 2019

PBS NewsHour: CEOs are saying they need to be more socially minded. Will anything change?

Published on Aug 20, 2019
For decades, the driving goal for corporate America has been maximizing stockholders' profits. So what made nearly 200 of the country's most prominent companies issue a joint statement this week, representing a major philosophical shift? John Yang talks to Steven Pearlstein of The Washington Post and author of "Can American Capitalism Survive?"


John Yang: You say this move has — this shift has been going on for a while. So why now? Why make this formal declaration now?

Steven Pearlstein: Well, several, but one of which is the political environment, where, you know, you have the two leading — or two of the three leading Democratic presidential candidates going around saying the big problem is corporate greed.

And they probably overstate the case and are pretty harsh about their populist complaint. But, you know, that's added to fact that for years businesses and business leaders have been held in lower and lower regard by the public.

John Yang: You mentioned the political environment. The two Democratic candidates — the Democrats may take Congress back. Why shouldn't we just see this as a P.R. gimmick, as trying to get out ahead of an issue, of trying to trying to look good?

Steven Pearlstein: Well, to me, that's progress. When the corporate community tries to get out ahead of something like that and acknowledges that they may have overdone things, and then that's a win.

I mean, I don't know how that — yes, it is good for P.R., but if they don't follow through, if we continue to see companies that say, I'm giving up my American citizenship so that we don't have to pay U.S. taxes anymore because our shareholders are making us do it, if companies say, we're going to crush our unions because our shareholders are making us do it, they won't be able to get away with that anymore.

Read the Full Transcript
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ceos-are-saying-they-need-to-be-more-socially-minded-will-anything-change

August 23, 2019

This campaign is not about middle ground solutions.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1164746233048719360

August 23, 2019

''Bernie's right: It is time for a massive public takeover of the nation's electric grid.''

BY JOHANNA BOZUWA
AUGUST 22, 2019

Excerpt:

Sanders’ plans for public ownership don’t stop at electricity. He would also allocate funds to massively increase public broadband projects to give people access to a new and necessary public good: the internet. An estimated 19 million people, largely located in rural America, still do not have access to broadband. He offers a vision for integrated and effective local public transportation systems with high-speed rail connections. He stresses the importance of building high-quality, low-carbon-footprint public housing, as well as weatherizing already-standing homes to end energy poverty. The plan reinstates the federal Civilian Conservation Corps jobs program to restore our public lands. It invests dramatically more in public regional development agencies like the Appalachian Regional Commission. It even creates spaces for cooperatively owned grocery stores to facilitate local agriculture not held hostage by monopolies like Monsanto.

The future is public. It is accountable to the principles of environmental justice. It is democratic. It is decommodified. Sanders’ plan is the latest to set the bar for a new economy shepherded in by the green energy transition. We learned long ago that private interests won’t solve for climate and justice at the same time—that change will have to come from united and empowered people. Now, this realization is firmly on the presidential political agenda.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/22025/bernie-sanders-calls-to-seize-the-means-of-electricity-production-climate

August 23, 2019

🔥 Rally with Bernie in Sacramento

Scheduled for Aug 22, 2019
We are the strongest campaign to defeat Donald Trump. We will do it by bringing millions of people into the political process, in every corner of this country, and build a movement based on justice.