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March 19, 2020
Mar 19, 2020
“We should not be scared of what will happen if we try. We should be scared of what will happen if we don’t.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Video: @rockyowens + @nowandben
Music: @meganslankard + @liarosemusic
"Which Side Are You On?"
Mar 19, 2020
“We should not be scared of what will happen if we try. We should be scared of what will happen if we don’t.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Video: @rockyowens + @nowandben
Music: @meganslankard + @liarosemusic
March 19, 2020
It took a virus to kill the deficit myth.
https://twitter.com/StephanieKelton/status/1240335674135511044
March 18, 2020
People get real Berniesque during a crisis.
https://twitter.com/swalker06/status/1240101728088928258
March 17, 2020
🔥 CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE: BERNIE ADDRESSES THE NATION
March 17, 2020
BY GABRIELLA PAIELLA
March 17, 2020
Excerpt:
On March 12th, in his first public address on the pandemic, the Vermont senator spoke directly and with a poignant urgency. “I worry very much about elderly people in this country today, many of whom are isolated, many of whom do not have a lot of money,” he said. “We need to worry about those who are already sick. We need to worry about working families with children, people with disabilities, the homeless, and all those who are vulnerable.”
He called for an immediate nationwide moratorium on evictions, foreclosures, and utility shutoffs, as well as the construction of emergency shelters for the homeless and domestic violence survivors. While Trump paraded healthcare CEOs in the White House Rose Garden, Sanders directed his audience’s attention to those forgotten in the shadows: “those confined immigration detention centers, those who are currently incarcerated and in jails, and all people regardless of their immigration status.”
Like his lone support of allowing prisoners to vote, there is nothing politically expedient about speaking up on behalf of incarcerated people. But Sanders insisted on it. Experts already fear that this pandemic is going to be particularly devastating in prisons due to overcrowding and existing abysmal conditions, while the alcohol content in the hand sanitizer we’re all being urged to use means the product is contraband and banned from most facilities across the country. Sanders also joined several Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and other former opponents, in sending a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and large private prison operators demanding to know how they would be handling the coronavirus. Biden did not.
As for the half a million homeless people Sanders pointed to—again, not a voting bloc he has to win over—The Washington Post reports that the current administration has not deployed any emergency funding, nor were homeless people addressed directly in Congress’s bipartisan coronavirus aid package. This is all while advocates fear that the outbreak will decimate encampments and shelters.
It’s no surprise, then, that in his general public response, Sanders has acknowledged the broader emotional toll of the coronavirus crisis with a singular empathy and connectedness: speaking to the loneliness of being isolated, or the anxiety of having a spouse stricken by the virus and being unable to afford mental healthcare. “As people work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy to feel like we are in this alone. That is a very dangerous mistake,” he warned, not unkindly. “First and foremost, we must remember that we are in this together. Now is the time for solidarity. Now is the time to come together with love and compassion for all.” Sanders has spent a lifetime preaching about the necessity of acting collectively. In a situation like this, when America’s streak of rugged individualism spells out a death sentence, calling for togetherness is not only comforting, it’s the best option we have for survival.
https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-coronavirus
Bernie Sanders Is the Only Candidate Focused on How Coronavirus Will Ravage the Most Vulnerable
https://twitter.com/GMPaiella/status/1239968677904044037BY GABRIELLA PAIELLA
March 17, 2020
Excerpt:
On March 12th, in his first public address on the pandemic, the Vermont senator spoke directly and with a poignant urgency. “I worry very much about elderly people in this country today, many of whom are isolated, many of whom do not have a lot of money,” he said. “We need to worry about those who are already sick. We need to worry about working families with children, people with disabilities, the homeless, and all those who are vulnerable.”
He called for an immediate nationwide moratorium on evictions, foreclosures, and utility shutoffs, as well as the construction of emergency shelters for the homeless and domestic violence survivors. While Trump paraded healthcare CEOs in the White House Rose Garden, Sanders directed his audience’s attention to those forgotten in the shadows: “those confined immigration detention centers, those who are currently incarcerated and in jails, and all people regardless of their immigration status.”
Like his lone support of allowing prisoners to vote, there is nothing politically expedient about speaking up on behalf of incarcerated people. But Sanders insisted on it. Experts already fear that this pandemic is going to be particularly devastating in prisons due to overcrowding and existing abysmal conditions, while the alcohol content in the hand sanitizer we’re all being urged to use means the product is contraband and banned from most facilities across the country. Sanders also joined several Democratic senators, including Elizabeth Warren and other former opponents, in sending a letter to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and large private prison operators demanding to know how they would be handling the coronavirus. Biden did not.
As for the half a million homeless people Sanders pointed to—again, not a voting bloc he has to win over—The Washington Post reports that the current administration has not deployed any emergency funding, nor were homeless people addressed directly in Congress’s bipartisan coronavirus aid package. This is all while advocates fear that the outbreak will decimate encampments and shelters.
It’s no surprise, then, that in his general public response, Sanders has acknowledged the broader emotional toll of the coronavirus crisis with a singular empathy and connectedness: speaking to the loneliness of being isolated, or the anxiety of having a spouse stricken by the virus and being unable to afford mental healthcare. “As people work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy to feel like we are in this alone. That is a very dangerous mistake,” he warned, not unkindly. “First and foremost, we must remember that we are in this together. Now is the time for solidarity. Now is the time to come together with love and compassion for all.” Sanders has spent a lifetime preaching about the necessity of acting collectively. In a situation like this, when America’s streak of rugged individualism spells out a death sentence, calling for togetherness is not only comforting, it’s the best option we have for survival.
https://www.gq.com/story/bernie-sanders-coronavirus
March 17, 2020
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1239939331038621696
"We believe going to the polls amid the coronavirus outbreak is a personal decision."
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1239939331038621696
March 16, 2020
Scheduled for Mar 16, 2020
DIGITAL RALLY WITH NEIL YOUNG: Join me now for our first-ever digital rally featuring Neil Young and Daryl Hannah, as well as musical performances from Jim James of My Morning Jacket and the Free Nationals!
🔥 DIGITAL RALLY WITH NEIL YOUNG
Scheduled for Mar 16, 2020
DIGITAL RALLY WITH NEIL YOUNG: Join me now for our first-ever digital rally featuring Neil Young and Daryl Hannah, as well as musical performances from Jim James of My Morning Jacket and the Free Nationals!
March 16, 2020
Excerpt:
I am proud to say that my record of defending reproductive freedoms pre-dates Roe v. Wade. In 1972—decades before it was popular or politically convenient—I was quoted by the Vermont press saying that “it strikes me as incredible that politicians think they have the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body.” I am the only major candidate in the race who has consistently voted against the Hyde Amendment—the legislation that aims to gut federal funding for abortion services, including Planned Parenthood—and I am proud to have a 100 percent pro-choice voting record from NARAL Pro-Choice American and Planned Parenthood.
Joe Biden, regretfully, has a different record. Just after Roe was decided, Joe Biden believed the Supreme Court decision “went too far,” saying: “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.” As vice president, Biden worked to cut mandated coverage for contraception from Obamacare, and he supported the Hyde Amendment until last June, when his run for president brought fresh scrutiny to his long-held position.
I am also enormously proud of the plans put forward by this campaign. I have recently released a comprehensive plan to bring universal and affordable contraception and reproductive health care—from fertility treatments, to STI screenings, to abortion care—to every woman in this country. And our Medicare for All plan contains provisions specifically designed to finally bring an end to the crisis of maternal mortality in communities of color, particularly Black communities, across the country.
The freedom to control your own body is a fundamental, inalienable right. And yet, politicians on both sides of the aisle have failed to stand up to protect this freedom. I stood with women to protect that freedom in 1972, and in 2020, my position is unchanged. It’s the same place I’ve stood for the last 50 years—with you.
Bernie Sanders: The Fight For Reproductive Freedom Is Happening Right Now
https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1239617269384216584Excerpt:
I am proud to say that my record of defending reproductive freedoms pre-dates Roe v. Wade. In 1972—decades before it was popular or politically convenient—I was quoted by the Vermont press saying that “it strikes me as incredible that politicians think they have the right to tell a woman what she can or cannot do with her body.” I am the only major candidate in the race who has consistently voted against the Hyde Amendment—the legislation that aims to gut federal funding for abortion services, including Planned Parenthood—and I am proud to have a 100 percent pro-choice voting record from NARAL Pro-Choice American and Planned Parenthood.
Joe Biden, regretfully, has a different record. Just after Roe was decided, Joe Biden believed the Supreme Court decision “went too far,” saying: “I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.” As vice president, Biden worked to cut mandated coverage for contraception from Obamacare, and he supported the Hyde Amendment until last June, when his run for president brought fresh scrutiny to his long-held position.
I am also enormously proud of the plans put forward by this campaign. I have recently released a comprehensive plan to bring universal and affordable contraception and reproductive health care—from fertility treatments, to STI screenings, to abortion care—to every woman in this country. And our Medicare for All plan contains provisions specifically designed to finally bring an end to the crisis of maternal mortality in communities of color, particularly Black communities, across the country.
The freedom to control your own body is a fundamental, inalienable right. And yet, politicians on both sides of the aisle have failed to stand up to protect this freedom. I stood with women to protect that freedom in 1972, and in 2020, my position is unchanged. It’s the same place I’ve stood for the last 50 years—with you.
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