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Jarqui's JournalBernie Sanders Civil Rights Photographer was Danny Lyons - more Bernie pics
Looks like John Lewis can't ignore Danny. This is what he said about him:
“This young white New Yorker came South with a camera and a keen eye for history. And he used these simple, elegant gifts to capture the story of one of the most inspiring periods in America’s twentieth century.” — John Lewis, US congressman
From a blurb on Danny's book:
Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
by DANNY LYON
https://twinpalms.com/books-artists/memories-of-the-southern-civil-rights-movement/
In the summer of 1962, Danny Lyon packed a Nikon Reflex and an old Leica in an army bag and hitchhiked south. Within a week he was in jail in Albany, Georgia, looking through the bars at another prisoner, Martin Luther King Jr. Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which already had a reputation as one of the most committed and confrontational groups fighting for civil rights.
This is Dann'y blog and on the blog he has two entries:
BERNIE SANDERS LEADS 1963 SIT-IN
Posted on January 30, 2016
https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/01/30/bernie-sanders-leads-1963-sit-in/
where he identifies the two photographs he took of Berrnie that have been widely published
And a second blog that he did yesterday:
MORE BERNIE CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOS FOUND!
Posted on February 11, 2016
https://dektol.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/more-bernie-civil-rights-photos-found/
The slander that Bernie was not a very early leader for African American civil rights got so outrageous that persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions on Danny Lyon’s 1962 photos, claiming it was Bruce Rappaport standing in Bernie’s clothing leading the demonstration in the Ad Building. These newly discovered pictures, including close up photographs of the student activists show us exactly what Bernie was and what he remains.
He posts more photos of the sit-in and then says:
Here at the University of Chicago, in the winter of 1962, students led by Bernie Sanders and others have occupied the hallway of the Administration Building, spending the night inside. The Chancellor cannot get into or leave his office. Bernie is leading a protest against the discrimination practiced by the University of Chicago against African Americans in it’s extensive housing. This protest for equal rights for African Americans is the first sit-in to be held in the north as part of the great 1960’s civil rights movement. Bernie is the real deal. And voters, all voters know it. Feel the Bern.
I think Danny makes a pretty solid case given who he was: a civil rights photographer and John Lewis of all people attests to his work.
John Lewis would know Danny because:
Lyon soon became the first staff photographer for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
and John Lewis headed up the SNCC from 1963 to 1966.
Maybe how he's wrapped it isn't appetizing
Maybe that it's not written by a black leader or someone that was close to MLK hurts it's perceived credibility.
Maybe saying "King himself supported democratic socialism" goes too far trying to put that label on it.
But there is no escaping MLK was very concerned with economic unfairness for blacks. Here's a quote of his that stuck with me:
"We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one."
MLK "I Have A Dream" speech 1963
At least, 27% of blacks, if not more, are still in that ghetto.
The one candidate who has been consistently against that and for getting people out of poverty since before he heard the above quote in 1963 is Bernie Sanders.
Absolutely
Doing something about lobbyists in an unfulfilled Obama promise
How Obama failed to shut Washington's revolving door
He vowed to keep lobbyists out of his administration, but loopholes weakened his pledge.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/barack-obama-revolving-door-lobbying-217042#ixzz3zxb0fzZc
Some of that problem was that if he excluded everyone who had lobbied, then there was almost no one who had decent experience to fill positions in some areas.
Bernie's point about money corrupting politics is valid. Obama didn't solve it.
I do not think Wall Street money influenced Obama himself. But it significantly helped finance the wall of obstruction his legislation and efforts ran into. It softened legislation like Dodd-Frank. And they were going to obstruct anything Obama tried to do about it.
I think the world of Obama and believe overall, considering what he faced, he did a great job.
But there is a lot of work that remains to be done.
The Clintons are much more of a concern. Hillary has been called weather vane for a long history of flip-flops - she can be influenced as her untrustworthy ethical rudder is not very deep. Since they left the White House, they have collected nearly $4 billion for campaigns, the Clinton Foundation, the library and speaking fees - a lot of it from Wall Street. There's no way from all the back slapping financial donations to their causes that they can address money in politics because they're a poster example of the problem. As the Politico article covered recently, Hillary will say one thing about Wall Street in public and another behind closed doors when they're paying her $250,000 to speak. To me, that alone should disqualify her from the Oval office.
I heartily disagree
Nobody is above criticism. Not even John Lewis.
When I last checked, this is a democracy with freedom of expression rights.
If John gets out of line, he can be criticized like anyone else.
I think he got out of line today.
I can't endorse all he's getting as I haven't seen it all and some of it might be ugly. But there's no doubt in my mind, he deserves some criticism.
If one opens their mouth, they're accountable for what comes out of it. No free passes.
They chartered about 2,000 "freedom buses" and a bunch of "freedom trains" and
promoted it with posters like this:
Bernie got on a "freedom bus" in Chicago and went to Washington to support them.
Once he bought his ticket and got on that bus, he was going with the flow of what they wanted him to do for this protest.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/marchonwashington.html
But on August 28, 1963, an estimated quarter of a million people—about a quarter of whom were white—marched from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, in what turned out to be both a protest and a communal celebration.
Here's some footage of the march at the start of this video
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=96
The event began with a rally at the Washington Monument featuring several celebrities and musicians. Participants then marched the mile-long National Mall to the Memorial. The three-hour long program at the Lincoln Memorial included speeches from prominent civil rights and religious leaders.
Ever hear of "Where's Waldo?" Let's play "Where's Bernie?" in the March on Washington?
Hint: Bernie said he was near the back when MLK spoke - on the march route between the Lincoln Memorial where King spoke and the Washington Monument where the march started.
Did Bernie make the walk all the way to the Lincoln Memorial? I have no idea. But on that day, he demonstrated his solidarity with the civil rights movement by hoping on a "freedom bus" in Chicago and going all the way to Washington to support them as they asked.
As such, at the very least, figuratively, Bernie "marched" with MLK for civil rights and economic equality.
I protested the Vietnam War and Streaked in protest of Nixon
I did other efforts in the early 70s, around the same time like low income housing (I got a front page story in the paper), got some funding for a gay rights issue, etc.
Some people I saw at protests, I never saw before or since. A bunch were thoroughly wasted and might be guys I saw on Venice beach a few years back, still looking for their minds. Acid was fairly popular ... Lots of folks went by nicknames. To this day, I don't know their real names.
Imagine going to a concert. Lots of people around you. You know the people you came with and might run into a few you know. Then you go home knowing a tiny fraction of people who attended. Protests I attended, though dramatically smaller in attendance, weren't much different in that regard. Why would they be that different? If anyone was taking names, it was law enforcement.
Like Kennedy and others, I watched MLK speaking at the March on Washington on TV and followed it some. I was too young to go. I don't mean to insult but MLK, Malcolm X and the other Big Four, Randolph, Belafonte, Poitier, Robinson were names that were prominent in the media. Rosa Parks too. At that point in time, I wasn't aware of John Lewis. I know his history now but didn't know it then. He was involved with SNCC and Bernie was involved with CORE and sometimes CORE did joint protests/efforts with SNCC in Chicago. But that's the only other overlap.
I think Lewis' claim that he never saw or met Bernie back then is am unprovoked cheap shot.
Team Clinton tries to lower Nevada expectations with incredible (ie false) claim
by Jon Ralston Thu, 02/11/2016 www.ralstonreports.com
https://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/team-clinton-tries-lower-nevada-expectations-incredible-ie-false-claims
After the disaster in snow-white New Hampshire and the near-death experience in colorless Iowa, Team Clinton suddenly was trying to make Nevada sound as if its rainbow of voters did not exist.
“There’s going to be a narrowing in both places (South Carolina and Nevada) — we’re clear-eyed about that,” said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon told NBC's Chuck Todd, as reported by BuzzFeed's Ruby Cramer. “There’s an important Hispanic element to the Democratic caucus in Nevada. But it’s still a state that is 80 percent white voters. You have a caucus-style format, and he’ll have the momentum coming out of New Hampshire presumably, so there’s a lot of reasons he should do well.”
80 percent white? What?
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The Democratic caucus population was 35 percent minority in 2008, according to exit polls, and is expected to be as high as 40 percent in 2016, according to local Democratic sources. This is nothing like the 90 percent white caucus participation in Iowa, for instance.
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One Clinton campaign source explained that some of the campaign's modeling showed an 80 percent turnout in Nevada come Feb. 20. This would be the model constructed after 14 martinis, perhaps.
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I don't smell a rat. I smell something much more pungent from the Clinton campaign: fear.
There's a better explanation in the full article.
Another deception brought to you by Hillary Clinton ... (seems to be a daily event ..)
I did a little checking on voter registration because it's been fairly hot lately
https://www.nvsos.gov/index.aspx?page=1318
The notable change is that registration of the 18-24 group is up 36% over the last year. It's still 29% below 2008 so they have some work to do but it's encouraging.
Bernie Sanders to Huddle With Al Sharpton
Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/09/bernie-sanders-to-huddle-with-al-sharpton.html
The day after he’s expected to wallop Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire’s primary, Bernie Sanders will get to work on tearing down her so-called South Carolina firewall.
His first stop on that mission? Breakfast in Harlem with Rev. Al Sharpton.
In recent weeks, the Sanders campaign has been touting endorsements from key African-American leaders—including Ohio State Sen. Nina Turner, ex-NAACP president Ben Jealous and rapper Killer Mike, who has become one of his strongest surrogates with young black voters.
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“I think that they have dealt with the reality that if people are going to address issues they will have to address them with the people involved in the issues,” Sharpton told The Daily Beast. “You cannot appoint our leadership for us.”
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“I am black radio five days a week,” Sharpton said. “I am not guessing about what’s on the ground. I am on the ground.”
Could be an important meeting ...
NY Times: Sanders Wins Nearly Every Demographic Group
http://www.nytimes.com/live/new-hampshire-primary-2016-election/bernie-sanders-wins-every-demographic-group/Senator Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton among nearly every demographic group in the Democratic New Hampshire primary, according to exit polls.
He carried majorities of both men and women. He won among those with and without college degrees. He won among gun owners and non-gun owners. He beat Mrs. Clinton among previous primary voters and those participating for the first time. And he ran ahead among both moderates and liberals.
Even so, there were a few silver linings for Mrs. Clinton. While Mr. Sanders bested her among all age groups younger than 45, the two candidates polled evenly among voters aged 45 to 64. And Mrs. Clinton won the support of voters 65 and older. And, though Mrs. Clinton lost nearly every income group, she did carry voters in families earning over $200,000 per year.
Not a lot to cling to for Clinton in this state - a state she won in 2008
Democrats Are Fuming About Hillary Clinton's 'Smear' Line
Source: Huffington Post
They say it's a tacit embrace of Citizens United.
In last week's head-to-head debate with Bernie Sanders, Clinton accused the Vermont senator of deploying a "very artful smear" against her by bringing up the $675,000 she received for speaking at Goldman Sachs.
"I really don't think these kinds of attacks by insinuation are worthy of you," Clinton said to Sanders. "If you got something to say, say it directly. But you will never find that I have ever changed a view or a vote because of any donation I've received."
The audience booed Clinton over the exchange. She also raised a lot of eyebrows beyond the debate hall.
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"I can see how in the heat of hand-to-hand political combat, that might be an appealing defense," says Kurt Walters, a campaign manager with the anti-corruption group Rootstrikers, referring to Clinton's "smear" line. "But just like the Citizens United line of thinking, it ignores all of the other ways that money influences politics beyond the explicit exchange of cash for a vote."
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"Clinton, like our Supreme Court, ignores thousands of years of human experience in how money corrupts politics not just through quid pro quos, but also by shaping attitudes," says David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning economics writer.
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"People say, 'Oh, [the money] doesn't have any effect on me,'" Frank told NPR in 2012. "Well, if that were the case, we'd be the only human beings in the history of the world who, on a regular basis, took significant amounts of money from perfect strangers and made sure that it had no effect on our behavior."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-smear-wall-street_us_56b9025de4b08069c7a86088
Tone deaf within her own party?
Looks like her campaign is taking on water fast ...
The article snags Barney Frank in a bit of a flip-flop
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