It seems there are more than a few hecklers that want to hide Bernie's history.

[Uncle Joe]

NATIONAL VFB (March 5, 2019) — Yesterday, Chicago Tribune officials emailed this little ol’ blog, which we call Veterans for Bernie, with a veiled threat of taking legal action if we didn’t remove pictures of Bernie Sanders’ 1963 Civil Rights arrest from three separate blog posts. “Our legal team has been notified,” it warned.

VFB is a personal WordPress blog used by veterans to educate and organize around Bernie Sanders’ Presidential election. Nothing more.

You can’t donate to us. We don’t accept donations.

You can’t buy anything from us, because we don’t sell anything.

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https://vetsforbernie.org/2019/03/chicago-tribune-threatened-us-with-legal-action-for-bernie-sanders-arrest-photo-blog-posts/

Veterans for Bernie Sanders (also known as Vets for Bernie) was the first ever national grassroots association of military veterans to organize on behalf of a Presidential candidate, namely Bernie Sanders during the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016. Vets for Bernie, independent from the official campaign and largely organized via social media, grew to more than 50,000 military members, and over 100,000 followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Founded by veterans of the Iraq war and Afghanistan war, Vets for Bernie became a key organizing force for progressives and military voters during the 2016 US Presidential campaign. With ranks of combat veterans, the group became widely known for its backing of the Vermont Senator who once protested against the Vietnam war.[1][2]

Vets for Bernie was founded in June 2015 by former United States Marine Tyson Manker, a veteran of the 2003 Iraq invasion,[3] at Sanders' first town hall event at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.[4][5][6] After The Boston Globe indicated wider military support for the Senator,[7] Manker and several other veterans began organizing themselves and working to identify other like-minded members of the United States Armed Forces.[8] Air Force veteran Alexandra Ducatte joined VFB as National co-director, and membership eventually grew across all fifty states, Guam and Puerto Rico.

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Individual outreach blogs, including:

95 Year-Old WWII Vet Voted for Bernie Sanders Today in Mississippi
Meet Mark Maxey, the Bearded Man at Bernie’s OKC Rally
Meet Leslie Lee III – Writer, Teacher, Bernie Sanders Supporter
Police Chief: Bernie Is the First Candidate to Ever Offer and Pay Police Overtime

And at least one instance of serious journalism in a blog that analyzed video and photographic evidence to effectively debunk false accusations being leveled at the time that the Sanders campaign shared photographs from the Civil Rights Movement that weren't of Sanders, when in fact they were.[27]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_for_Bernie_Sanders

[dsc]

1. It seems the Tribune's problem was that the blog didn't bother to credit it for the photo

and the blog's comparison to Twitter isn't apt since Twitter limits characters so a large extent though even then Shaun King should have credited them. I fail to see why so many people think it is perfectly OK to steal the work of others and act outraged when called upon that behavior.

[George II]

2. Slow news night.

[lapucelle]

4. Civil rights icon John Lewis.

[highplainsdem]

6. Yep. Faux outrage, plus a persecution complex, suggesting that "maybe just maybe" the

Chicago Tribune staff "don’t like Bernie Sanders."

[pnwmom]

3. You left out the part about copyright infringement. nt

[highplainsdem]

5. ????? Your subject line completely misrepresents what's happening there.

[oldsoftie]

7. Its April. How bad is this going to get before next March, when it will thankfully be OVER?

Jeeze, the sniping thats already happening.......

[katmondoo]

8. Sorry I just don't like Bernie

[Uncle Joe]

9. That's okay, Bernie likes you.

[highplainsdem]

10. Change "Bernie" to "God" or "Jesus" and that sounds like something a proselytizing fundy would say.

[Uncle Joe]

11. Except Bernie is proposing policies that reflect the statement in this world, has Joe come out

with any policies of late?

[highplainsdem]

12. I don't share your opinion of Sanders, and I'm not looking for a wannabe socialist messiah.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Any policies? They don't have to be..gulp..."socialist."

[ucrdem]

14. How about the Beau Biden Gun Violence Protection Act?

Not to mention the ACA?