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"Because Sanders is campaigning on many of the issues that have animated nurses for years. He proposes Medicare for All and aggressive action to move away from a fossil-fuel economy that causes climate change and its harmful health impacts. He pledges to reverse the grotesque income inequality that keeps far too many trapped in a cycle of poverty, inadequate housing, food insecurity, and low-paying jobs.
For nurses, everything begins with a basic dedication to their patients. Everyone is entitled to quality care, no matter their ability to pay, gender, race, age, sexual orientation, where they live, or where they were born. As the organized voice of nurses, NNU extends this humanitarian imperative to the public arena—starting with healthcare."
Merkley writes that the United States needs to do more to advance the work of the current administration.
Bernie Sanders picked up his first endorsement from a Senate colleague on Wednesday, as Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) penned a New York Times op-ed backing his colleague from Vermont as “boldly and fiercely addressing the biggest challenges facing our country.”
In explaining his endorsement, Merkley pointed to Sanders’ positions on trade deals, fossil fuels, campaign finance reform and myriad financial issues.
“It has been noted that Bernie has an uphill battle ahead of him to win the Democratic nomination,” Merkley wrote. “But his leadership on these issues and his willingness to fearlessly stand up to the powers that be have galvanized a grass-roots movement. People know that we don’t just need better policies, we need a wholesale rethinking of how our economy and our politics work, and for whom they work.”
While conceding that Hillary Clinton “has a remarkable record” and “would be a strong and capable president,” Merkley also wrote that the United States needs to do more to advance the work of the current administration.
New York’s transit workers union is feeling the Bern, throwing its support behind the fiery Vermont senator’s quest for the presidency.
The Transport Workers Union Local 100, representing 42,000 workers in the New York region, on Wednesday endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders ahead of the state’s April 19 presidential primary.
Sanders visited the union hall in downtown Brooklyn to pick up the endorsement.
The endorsement vote was nearly unanimous in favor of Sanders, according to a union source.
TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen said that Sanders’ message aligns with his members’ concerns.
“In Bernie Sanders, we see a kindred spirit,” Samuelsen said. “Bernie Sanders has been fighting against the powers that be in this country on behalf of American workers his entire life.”
"Bernie’s been fighting for change for longer than I have been alive, and he has remained dedicated and determined to put an end to racial oppression and colorline inequity just as he was when he was arrested while shackled to the causes of Black people in the ‘60s. His justice reform proposal mirrors the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement, and his economic policy positions will benefit distressed communities in ways that could finally begin to reverse the damage caused by the so-called war on drugs."
-- Kwame Rose, social activist and artist best known for holding mainstream media accountable during the #BaltimoreUprising.
They say black voters must cut their Clinton loyalties if they want solutions to systemic racism.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) may be losing out to Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton with minority voters, but three Ferguson activists he invited to speak at an Illinois rally Friday say they’re definitely “feeling the Bern.”
Bruce Franks, the founder of 28 to Life, an organization that focuses on youth empowerment and police relations with communities, talked about losing his brother to gun violence at the packed rally inside Southern Illinois University Edwardsville basketball stadium.
“In 1991, my brother, Christopher Harris, was 9 years old when he was killed. He was used as a human shield,“ said the 31-year-old, before announcing his run for Missouri state representative of the 79th district.
“Senator Sanders knows that the root cause of violence is lack of jobs, education, and resources.”
Franks told The Huffington Post that he wanted to run as state representative because he recognized the need for changes from the legislature.
“We’ve been out here in the fight since day one,” said the Riverfront Times Best Activist of 2015, gesturing to his fellow activists. "I’ll continue to fight. I’ll continue to be an activist, but I figured the next road for solution was changing things from the inside.“
Cori Bush, another activist-turned politician, spoke at the rally about being tear-gassed in Ferguson and the importance of standing against social injustice.
“For some reason, my brown lips and my dark skin says that I must make less money than my counterparts and I don’t understand that,” said the single mother, ordained pastor and nurse, who is running as a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.
She wants to “eradicate the school-to-prison pipeline” and said that her platform echoes much of Sanders’.
All three of us were Ferguson activists. That said a lot more to me because it’s the new civil rights movement
Black Lives Matter activists have interrupted several presidential candidate campaign events, including one for Sanders, and a protester interrupted Clinton during a private fundraising party last week.
“Can I talk and maybe you can listen,” Clinton said to her, before the activist was escorted out.
By contrast, the activists who spoke at Sanders’ rally on Friday were well-received.
“I am a woman. I am Black. I am gay. Bernie has stood for the right of all the minorities I belong to since the 70s. He’s never flip flopped, never sold out, never said no to social justice and always said no to the DC money machine.”
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As a radiation oncologist for 20 years, I have seen far too many of my patients go bankrupt strictly because they got cancer and sadly most of them had insurance. As one of a dwindling number of physicians in California who will accepts Medicaid patients, I have seen far too many patients present with advanced stage cancer solely because they could not get proper preventative screening or find a physician who would see them in a timely fashion. The harsh reality is that we have a broken and immoral healthcare system where 29 million people remain uninsured and 31 million are underinsured. Of this later group, 44% of people will delay seeking care because they cannot afford the co-pays and deductibles and 51% will have trouble paying off their medical bills and debt. As for prescription drugs, 1 out of 10 Americans will skip filling a prescription because they cannot afford the cost.
For all the good the ACA has done, there is no mechanism to address any of these major issues, and for the millions of patients above, they simply cannot continue the deeply flawed status quo and rely upon incremental change to help them in their greatest time of need.
Senator Sanders is the only candidate who believes that healthcare is a human right and that the only true solution to provide comprehensive universal healthcare is to improve, strengthen, and expand Medicare for all.
Some have said that Senator Sanders is unrealistic and making promises that he cannot keep. The truth is that as long as we remain in denial and continue to protect the status quo, millions will continue to go bankrupt simply because they get sick while tens of thousands will die each year simply because they are uninsured. To believe that the status quo is acceptable is to be in denial and unrealistic. Acknowledging this and fighting for something radically better is not. I commend Senator Sanders for speaking truth to our broken status quo and for raising all of our aspirations and demands for something far greater than ourselves, like my Grandfather and Shirley Chisholm both did.
I've had conflicting feelings as to whether or not I should officially endorse Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee for President of the United...
I've had conflicting feelings as to whether or not I should officially endorse Bernie Sanders as the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
I would be making this decision for only the second time in my life. The first time was for Barack Obama, the master of the spoken word whose brilliance (and smile) brought people together and ignited our spirits for the first time in decades. Aside from endorsing Barack Obama, I have refused to step into the arena of party politics.
My choice, from an early age, has been to engage in social change from the ground up, using the power of organized nonviolence. A distrust of the political process was firmly in place by the time I was 15. As a daughter of Quakers I pledged my allegiance not to a flag or a nation state but to humankind, the two often having little to do with each other.
Ideally, both Obama and Sanders could have used their unique gifts to build a grass roots movement, sidestepping the Oval Office and going directly to the streets to organize from the sidewalks, street corners, living rooms and churches. Gandhi himself refused to be part of the newly formed Independent India government after he led the country to independence, and remained committed to nonviolent opposition.
Can a true political revolution ever start from within the party system? It does seem like an insurmountable contradiction. And to imagine that more than a fraction of Bernie's agenda could ever come to fruition is probably setting expectations too high.
Yet Bernie has won my heart. He supports causes in which I have been personally involved for decades. I take great strength from his firm stance against the death penalty, (amazing!) his belief that Palestinians should have a place at the bargaining table, (unheard of!) his understanding that the prison system must transform its agenda from punishment to rehabilitation, his desire to treat immigrants as human beings, and of course by his grass roots funding and astonishing refusal to sell himself to the devil on Wall Street, or anywhere else for that matter. I am profoundly moved by this elder statesman, his compelling honesty, and his ability to engage young people.
Why am I not spending my time trying to woo Bernie into grass roots organizing? For the moment I'm going with my heart, which I mentioned, he has won. I am not sold on "the system" and never will be. I’m sold on the guy from Brooklyn.
I've learned a lot while writing this piece. I know that I am ambivalent about supporting someone who will be thrown to the lions if he wins. He is a lion in his own right, and I want to see him win. Not just to conquer the growing evil in the other party, but also to see what he can do to bend the system towards a less corrupt and more generous country than we are at present.
I joyfully and wholeheartedly endorse Bernie Sanders to be the nominee for the Democratic Party in the 2016 Presidential Election.
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