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4/8 “Why Wouldn’t I Speak up for Working People?” Bernie Sanders @ Machinists & Aerospace Workers Conference + Afternoon OT

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Bernie was one of two POTUS candidates who spoke at the International Association of Machinista and Aerospace Workers convention in LV. He is the sole candidate who has worked the picket lines with this union.

BERNIE, AMY, & UNIONS: 2020 contenders Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speak to union workers at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at their annual Transportation Conference in Las Vegas, NV. Sanders is the first presidential candidate to announce he would unionize his campaign workers and Klobuchar has a 95% lifetime rating from the AFL-CIO.

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Bernie comes on about the 50 min mark.

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3/20 BNR Afternoon +OT: Bernie To Join UCLA Workers at Rally

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And, Bernie is at a rally for the UTPE-CWA 9119 union that is striking near the UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center today.

Meantime, chat away in the comments!

4/3 News Roundup – Tens Of Thousands Rally In Support Of Educators; MLK’s Fight For Economic Justice & More

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Joining Nationwide Teacher Rebellion, Tens of Thousands Rally for Education in Oklahoma

A weeks-long mobilization in Oklahoma resulted in teachers striking across the state on Monday, with tens of thousands of educators and supporters rallying at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City to demand more funding for schools and higher wages for teachers.

Organizers planned to speak with state lawmakers about how decades of funding cuts have affected their schools—and why a bill passed in the legislature last week that would raise taxes on oil and gas production to give teachers a $6,100 raise and allot $50 million for school funding was not enough to stop the protest.

Oklahoma Education Association (OEA) president Alicia Priest told CNN the package was “a good starting point,” but said teachers see it as a last-ditch effort by lawmakers to keep the strike from happening and not a genuine attempt to improve schools.

The OEA is demanding a $200 million funding bill for schools, and a $10,000 raise for teachers over the next three years.

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Also on Monday, a strike in Kentucky over changes to teachers’ pension plans continued, with educators traveling from across the state to the State Capitol in Frankfort. Most schools were closed for spring break, with teachers and supporters using their time off to protest—while 21 counties’s schools closed for the strike.

Teachers in Arizona held a demonstration in Phoenix last week—also hoping to draw attention to per-student funding, which was cut by more than 36 percent from 2008 to 2015.

In all the states where teachers have been voicing their dissatisfaction, lawmakers have spent decades handing out tax cuts to corporations while cutting funding for schools and leaving teachers with stagnant wages.

“After ten long years in a lot of these conservative states, the chicken is finally coming home to roost,” Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, told the Huffington Post. “They’ve given tax breaks to big corporations, defunded public schools, and said, ‘What could go wrong?'”

10/16 News – Sanders: The Republican Budget Is Robin Hood In Reverse, Florida’s Toxic Crisis & More

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Happy Monday friends! It’s my last day of vacation so by this time tomorrow I’ll be sitting back in my corporate cubicle and dreading every minute of it! But thats tomorrow so lets go ahead and get on with today’s news. Starting with Bernie of course:

The Republican budget is a gift to billionaires: it’s Robin Hood in reverse by Bernie Sanders

After failing to pass a “healthcare” bill that would have thrown up to 32 million Americans off of health insurance, a bill that was more unpopular than the Wall Street bailout, Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress are back.

Now, they are pushing one of the most destructive and unfair budget and tax proposals in the modern history of our country – a plan that would do incalculable harm to tens of millions of working families, our kids, the sick, the elderly and the poor.

The Republican budget, which will likely be debated on the floor of the Senate this week, is the Robin Hood principle in reverse. It takes from those in need and gives to those who are already living in incredible opulence.

Donald Trump and Republican leaders claim their plan would provide a “big league” tax cut for the middle class. Nothing could be further from the truth. According to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, by the end of the decade, nearly 80% of the tax benefits of the Republican plan would go to the top one percent and 40% would go to the top one-tenth of one percent.

Meanwhile, while the Republicans want to give a $1.9tn tax break to the top one percent, they are proposing massive cuts in programs that working class Americans desperately need.

More @ the link

All the other news/video/etc will be in the comments, including:

*The Night When Bernie Was President
*Iran’s Foreign Minister Rips Trump as Congress Faces Call to “Defend Diplomacy”
*To Halt ‘Drift Toward War,’ Sanders Urges Congress to Defend Iran Nuke Deal
*The Establishment Still Doesn’t Recognize The Political Revolution That’s Happening
*Dr. Kathie Allen on 3 Questions with Bob Evans
*Pipeline updates, Water Protector News, and more

8/3 News Roundup – Sanders On Supporting Nissan Workers’ Fight To Unionize, Bernie’s Medicare For All Digital Campaign & More

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Today’s news roundup/open thread includes:

*Bernie’s Op-Ed on supporting Nissan workers’ fight for the right to unionize.
*Bernie’s Medicare-For-All Digital Campaign
*Tim Canova Responds to the DWS IT Scandal
*Jimmy Dore on the Democratic establishment’s scheming
*Cory Booker’s Marijuana Bill
*The latest pipeline/environmental/Water protector updates
& More

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Kentucky adopts ‘right-to-work’ measures

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(pic from Timothy D. Easley – AP) Protests today in Kentucky by union members and union officials, but the vote went against them with the measure that the protestors fear will hurt them being adopted. Kentucky Statehouse Posted by Adam Maguire on Saturday, January 7, 2017   This feisty girl got herself thrown out after shouting out that the GOP “hates labor”: And I'd do it again tomorrow. #GOPHatesLabor and don't let anyone tell u anything else #kyga17 https://t.co/A0KjAmNp7N — Nema #NOTATEACHER (@nema) January 7, 2017   “These are just union-busting bills. They’re not going to improve the economy any. … Continue reading →