Posts Tagged ‘Bernie Sanders’

Bernie Sanders has been protesting against social and economic inequality on the floor of the US Senate for decades— long before students and many that make up 99% Occupied Zuccotti Park, September 17, 2011. Bernie Sanders is finally giving previous OWS supporters and the 99% a high profile voice plus a bona fide electable champion [Continue]

Do you like, support and/or use: Public (no pay) Toilets Public Library Public Parks Public Beaches Bridges Public Landfills Vaccines (Polio, Swine, Bird Flu etc) Social Security Postal Service Fire Department Police Department Court System Public Defenders Prisons Child Services WIC Food Stamps Search and Rescue Animal Control The Military, [Continue]

Saturday Night Live (SNL) Spoofs a Hillary Clinton campaign advertisement as she morphs into Bernie Sanders so that she can try and get more Bernie Sanders votes in her bid to get the Democratic nomination. Of course the best humor is often rooted in the truth…The real Hillary Clinton has overtime adopted more and more [Continue]

Leonardo DiCaprio wins Academy Award for Best Actor in The Revenant, but gives the stage to Climate Change and Global Warming, during his Oscar acceptance speech. Full transcript of Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar acceptance speech: Thank you all so very much. Thank you to the Academy, thank you to all of you in this room. I [Continue]

BBC World News seems to agree with Bernie Sanders and Reports USA is Oligarch not Democracy according to fairly recent study. Bernie Sanders has been ringing the alarm for quite awhile on the Senate floor for years about this very issue. The BBC report references the study Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and [Continue]

A huge threat to democracy and why we currently live in a media landscape controlled only by a few Corporate owned voices. This is a quote from a transcript (December 7, 2012) of Bernie Sanders talking with Bill Moyers about why Big Media is too big already and doesn’t need to get any bigger, which is [Continue]

US Court block Internet Free Speech law and cripples innovation by giving advantage to established businesses and services in the Verizon v FCC ruling. Bernie Sanders independent Senator from Vermont summed up the disappointment best: “I am very disappointed by the decision made by the D.C. Court of Appeals and fear that the result will [Continue]

The greatest crisis facing our planet is only getting 8 minutes a year of discussion time on Sunday Morning news shows. Bernie Sanders the Independent U.S. Senator for Vermont makes some of the following points about Global Warming and Climate Change: The scientific consensus is absolutely clear and not debatable. Climate Change is real and [Continue]

Bernie Saunders eloquently speaks about issues that need to become a larger part of the national political debate in an effort to make the world a better place. Some of the highlighted reasons: US taxpayers bailed out Wall Street from the global financial crisis, which the people did not cause, it is an unfair burden [Continue]

Vermont joins a list of new states and towns that now echo one of the Occupy Movement’s mantras and attempt to make their state the first to end Corporate dominance of the US politics by calling for a constitutional amendment to reverse the Supreme Court’s ‘Citizens United’ decision that has allowed for unlimited and secret [Continue]