October 20, 2017

Democrats reject proposal to force Bernie Sanders to join the party

By David Weigel October 20 at 11:58 AM

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The resolution, introduced by three DNC members from California, attracted attention this week as one more skirmish between supporters of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 Democratic Primary and supporters of Sanders. Bob Mulholland, the DNC member who pitched the resolution to the committee, argued that Democrats were losing potential votes by letting progressive voters work outside the party.

But the negative attention on the resolution helped sink it. Terry Anderson, a DNC member from Vermont, told the committee that the language had been sprung on them without warning and didn’t reflect Sanders’s alliance with his state’s Democrats.

“It’s really troubling when you get your resolution package and you find out your state’s been named in it without any prior consultation,” said Anderson. “We’ve come to a solution that works for us, and we don’t need external voices telling us how to solve our primaries. Next year, Bernie will run for and win the Democratic primary, and he will win reelection — as an independent.”

The resolution died with a quick voice vote.

Earlier in the day, Sanders supporters scored another win by passing language officially rejecting “corporate donors that conflict with our DNC platform.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/10/20/democrats-reject-proposal-to-force-bernie-sanders-to-join-the-party/

October 20, 2017

The DNC has voted down a resolution that would have demanded Sanders and King run as Democrats

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/921395864639119363

October 18, 2017

Sanders leads potential 2020 Dem candidates in NH poll

BY JOHN BOWDEN - 10/18/17 04:44 PM EDT

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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) leads a field of potential Democratic presidential contenders for the 2020 New Hampshire primary, according to a new poll of likely Democratic voters.

A University of New Hampshire poll released Wednesday shows Sanders with 31 percent support in a hypothetical matchup against other potential 2020 challengers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former Vice President Joe Biden.



http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/356098-sanders-leads-new-hampshire-poll-of-possible-2020-dem

October 18, 2017

Twitter Photo: Jane Sanders Vatican Conference 'Ethics in Action'

https://twitter.com/TheSandersInst/status/920362819442413569

October 14, 2017

Film Festival: The Night When Bernie Was President

Culture Desk

By William Brennan
7:00 A.M.


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On a recent evening, about two dozen Bernie Sanders supporters and assorted bons vivants crammed into the World Money Gallery, a boxcar-size events space on Montrose Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The occasion was the President Sanders Film Festival, at which four films would be shown. The gallery’s walls were decorated with glittery paintings of Sanders. “Better With Bernie—Baruch Hashem,” one read. Red and blue balloons floated at the ceiling, election-party-style; above the drinks table hung a large banner advertising “Bernie Sandwiches.” Amanda Mercado and Zachary Darvish, the festival’s organizers, stood beneath it, greeting people as they arrived. When attendees crossed the threshold, Mercado explained, they were stepping into an alternate universe, “where Bernie Sanders is President of the United States.”

The gallery lights dimmed, a projector whirred, and the first of the four films—titled, simply, “Bernie 2020”—appeared on the back wall. Its creator, a video artist named Raúl Andrés, is on a mission to get Sanders elected next time by posting “beautiful and compelling Bernie 2020 ads” on social media. His two short videos combined inspirational campaign-trail quotes with footage of the senator barnstorming the country. U2’s “Magnificent” thumped in the background. One of the films ended with an encouragement to use the hashtag #Bernie2020. Several people clapped.

The evening’s second film was “2016 Election,” by Brian Hanley, a Brooklyn-based video journalist. In a two-and-a-half-minute cartoon set to an original rap, Hanley touted Sanders’s reliance on small donors, his votes against the Iraq War and the Patriot Act, and his desire to break up the big banks and legalize marijuana. “A democratic socialist is the remedy, and Donald Trump is the fucking enemy,” Hanley concluded, cutting to a shot of Sanders’s Presidential portrait hanging beside Barack Obama’s. Hanley had phone-banked for the campaign and, in April, 2016, rode around Grand Central on a longboard with a megaphone reminding passersby of the date of the New York primary. “2016 Election” was also part of those efforts: Hanley made the cartoon early in the primaries; with about four hundred thousand views, it had gone modestly viral. Now, he said, he was considering getting a Sanders quote tattooed on his arm: “Never, ever lose your sense of outrage.”

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-night-when-bernie-was-president


The President Sanders Film Festival, in Williamsburg, was for movies that imagined a world in which Bernie won. But the event didn’t quite turn out that way.Photograph by Ralph Freso / Getty

October 12, 2017

Bernie Sanders, King of YA Lit

OCT. 12 2017 4:31 PM

How did his latest political manifesto become a young adult best-seller?

By Ruth Graham


Excerpts:

As YA best-sellers go, the Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution is an unlikely contender. The author is a 76-year-old man. The cover illustration consists of his balding head. And teens are not known to be passionate about tax reform (the subject of Chapter 2) or health insurance wonkery (Chapter 4). Nonetheless, the book rode near the top of the New York Times best-seller list for Young Adult Hardcovers for weeks after its debut in late August, peaking (so far) at No. 2.

Sanders’ popularity with young people took many journalists and career Washingtonians by surprise in 2015 and 2016. But this book is a deft illustration of why his campaign was so energizing for young progressives. For one, he has a knack for framing policy positions as matters of urgent moral outrage. In a section on paid family leave and medical leave, he writes bluntly, “When it comes to supporting real family values, the United States lags behind every other major country on earth.” Sanders is cranky and impatient, and he makes a convincing case that the left could use more crankiness and impatience if it wants to start winning.

The most refreshing thing about the Bernie Sanders Guide is the most refreshing thing about Bernie Sanders the politician: a seemingly total lack of condescension. Sanders does not strain to convince his young readers that criminal justice reform will be immediately relevant in their own lives. He puts the chapter on tax reform before the chapter on the presumably more applicable chapter on affordable higher education. He doesn’t contort himself to prove that, say, the high cost of prescription drugs matters hugely to healthy teens and twentysomethings. He doesn’t try to use teenage slang or make pop culture references, and he doesn’t waste time flattering his fan base by revisiting the glory days of his youth-driven campaign. He treats young people not like a special interest group to be pandered to but like American citizens capable of maintaining a broad, benevolent interest in the welfare of the country as a whole.

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2017/10/bernie_sanders_guide_to_political_revolution_reviewed.html

October 12, 2017

Video: Sanders Sandia Solar Williston - Oct 12, 2017

Bernie Sanders Sandia Solar Williston Oct 12 2017


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Sanders makes case for solar at Sandia test site in Williston

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by Timothy McQuiston Vermont Business Magazine

In the near corner of one the state's largest solar sites are several sets of solar panels that seem out-of-place against the vast rows of solar panels in a former corn field in Williston. This cluster of photo-voltaic panels look different. Some are shaped differently, or are of a different shape and color, several are quite small and some even appear to be facing the wrong way. Turns out they are facing the right way for a specialized type of bi-facial solar panel that generates more than twice the output of a typical collector.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) today applauded the “cutting-edge role Vermont is playing in researching, testing and deploying solar energy,” during a visit to the US Department of Energy’s solar testing site in Williston.

The Vermont Regional Test Center (RTC) is one of five such facilities in the United States that give manufacturers of solar technologies the opportunity to test the performance and reliability of their products in real-world conditions. The RTCs are funded by the US Department of Energy and are managed by Sandia National Laboratories.

Sanders helped secure $3 million in 2013 from the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative to create the Vermont solar testing site specifically to study the effectiveness of different solar technologies in a cold and wet climate. The Vermont site is located on land owned by GlobalFoundries, who Sanders thanked for its continued commitment to the project.

http://www.vermontbiz.com/news/2017/october/12/sanders-makes-case-solar-sandia-test-site-williston

October 10, 2017

Uphill Media - LIVE Stream 7PM ET: Bernie Sanders College for All Town Hall - October 10th, 2017

Join the conversation as we re-stream Bernie's town hall on free college for all. Original event link.

Watch here or on Facebook.

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/917439014952689664

October 10, 2017

We need millions of students to stand up for tuition-free education. Join Bernie tonight at 7 PM ET

Oct 10th '17: We need millions of students to stand up and tell Republicans, "Sorry, we are not going to leave college $100,000 in debt while you give tax breaks to billionaires. We are going to make public colleges and universities tuition-free." Join me tonight at 7 PM on Facebook as we start the push to make public colleges and universities tuition free.

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October 5, 2017

This budget will kill people & will hurt people. This should not be allowed in a humane society.

Published on Oct 5, 2017

Republicans say, "We don't want to hurt Medicare." That's a lie. Their budget contains cuts that will kill people, cuts that will hurt people, cuts that should not be allowed in a humane society.

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