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Donkees's Journal🔥 Bernie 2020 Rally in Augusta, Georgia
Donald Trump thinks he can win reelection by dividing us up based on the color of our skin, our gender, where we were born, our religion or our sexual orientation. We're going to defeat Mr. Trump because we will do exactly the opposite. We're going to bring our people together.
Bernie Sanders Josh Fox Clean Drinking Water Community Interview
Published on May 18, 2019
Photos: Bernie visiting residents Paula and Eugene Brown to talk about Denmark SC water problems
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''I Did My Best to Stop American Foreign Policy'': Bernie Sanders on the 1980s
By Sydney Ember
May 18, 2019
Excerpt:
In an article on Friday, The New York Times detailed Mr. Sanders’s foreign policy views during his mayoralty, including on the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and on the Soviet Union, and how his activities at the time brought into relief the fervently anti-imperialist worldview that would continue to guide him.
Mr. Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who is running for the Democratic nomination for president, initially declined an interview request for the article. ➡️But after it was published, he requested a phone interview.
The following is an edited and condensed version of the conversation.
Mr. Sanders Let me just say this: I plead guilty to, throughout my adult life, doing everything that I can to prevent war and destruction.
As a young person, long before I ever held any position, I was active in opposition to the war in Vietnam. As a mayor, I did my best to stop American foreign policy, which for years was overthrowing governments in Latin America and installing puppet regimes.
I did everything that I could as a mayor of a small city to stop the United States from getting involved in another war in Central America trying to overthrow a government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/bernie-sanders.html
Bernie Sanders: A Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education
Excerpt:
In the twenty-first century, a free public education system that goes from kindergarten through high school is no longer good enough. If we are to succeed as a nation, public colleges and universities must be tuition free. Higher education should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few. That means we have got to make public colleges and universities tuition free and we must substantially reduce student debt. Each and every year, hundreds of thousands of bright and qualified young people do not get a higher education for one reason and one reason alone: their family lacks the income. That is unfair to those families; and it is it is unfair to the future of this country.
Instead of pursuing their dreams of being an environmentalist, a teacher, a social worker, or an artist, too many Americans end up taking higher-paying jobs on Wall Street or as accountants or as corporate managers simply to pay back their student loans. We need environmentalists. We need people to take care of the poor. We need health care providers to choose to work in community health centers. We need good teachers. Each and every American must be able to get the education they need to match their skills and fulfill their dreams.
In fulfilling those dreams, we must make teaching a highly attractive profession again. Teachers have one of the toughest and most demanding jobs in America. Teachers have been the leaders in the fight to improve public schools, reduce class sizes, and provide every student with books, computers and safe, high quality schools. What encourages me and gives me so much hope about the future is that teachers across the country are standing up and saying enough is enough! The wealthiest people in America cannot have it all, while public schools all over America are falling apart.
Over the past year, tens of thousands of teachers across the country have gone on strike to demand greater investment in public education. The wave of teacher strikes throughout the country provides an historic opportunity to make the investments we desperately need to make our public education system the best in the industrialized world, not one of the poorest.
Bernie’s education plan addresses the serious crisis in our education system by reducing racial and economic segregation in our public school system, attracting the best and the brightest educational professionals to teach in our classrooms, and reestablishing a positive learning environment for students in our K-12 schools. This plan calls for a transformative investment in our children, our teachers and our schools and a fundamental re-thinking of the unjust and inequitable funding of our public education system.
1. Combating Racial Discrimination and School Segregation
2. End the Unaccountable Profit-Motive of Charter Schools
3. Equitable Funding for Public Schools
4. Strengthen the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
5. Give Teachers a Much-Deserved Raise and Empower them to Teach
6. Expand After-School/Summer Education Programs
7. Universal School Meals
8. Community Schools
9. School Infrastructure
10. Make Schools a Safe and Inclusive Place for All
https://berniesanders.com/a-thurgood-marshall-plan-for-public-education/
Bernie makes unannounced stop at the 9th Annual Taste of Black Columbia event Columbia, SC
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🔥 Bernie Unveils His K-12 Education Plan - Orangeburg SC
Scheduled for May 18, 2019
Bernie Sanders will unveil the Thurgood Marshall Plan for Public Education and Educators. The 10-point blueprint proposes major reforms of the K-12 education system, with a focus on reversing racial and economic segregation that is plaguing elementary and secondary schools.
Bernie Sanders Speech To Volunteers - Charlotte North Carolina
Published on May 17, 2019
Bernie Sanders in the tunnel ready to go onstage.
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