Your guide to the Bernie Sanders kickoff [View all]
Your guide to the Bernie Sanders kickoff
By April Burbank, Free Press Staff Writer - 12:19 a.m. EDT May 23, 2015
Tuesday's big Bernie Sanders presidential campaign event will be equal parts homecoming and political spectacle.
The independent senator has pulled together plenty of Burlington symbolism:
Sanders expects to stand on public land he fought for in the 1980s as he announces his presidential ambitions — while spectators munch Ben & Jerry's ice cream at the free, non-ticketed event in Waterfront Park.
Burlington-based band Mango Jam will play in the park. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, of ice-cream fame, and Bill McKibben, the Vermont environmentalist and author, are expected to speak.
Plans for the event came together less than week before the big day, as Sanders campaign staffers unpacked a national campaign headquarters on Church Street. Volunteers on Friday had begun to call New Hampshire residents. The workers were surrounded by cardboard boxes and "Join the political revolution today" T-shirts.
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