Bernie Sanders Fights for Women's Rights

[cui bono]

There seems to be some confusion about Bernie's stance on social issues. This should help to start clearing things up:

[CharlotteVale]

1. K&R

[emulatorloo]

2. Thanks for posting. kick and rec! n/t

[cui bono]

3. Thanks for kicking and reccing!

People need to know this. Apparently it's not that known for some strange reason...

[L0oniX]

4. Cross post in Bernie Sanders group. n/t

[cui bono]

6. Done.

[BrotherIvan]

5. Thank you very much for putting up the FACTS

Bernie didn't have to make that speech, but he puts his neck out for what is RIGHT. He is not a misogynist. He is not a racist. And spreading those kinds of smears and lies is absolutely reprehensible.

"A young Bernie Sanders attends a meeting with civil rights activists from the University of Chicago."

March on Washington A 22-year old college student was among the more than 200,000 people who traveled hundreds of miles to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil right leaders. It was Bernie Sanders’ first trip to Washington. "There has been some real progress in breaking down barriers of discrimination and segregation, including the election and re-election of an African-American president. On the other hand, in terms of unemployment, low wages and more wealth disparity, we are worse off than we were in 1963," he said. The formal name of the gathering was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. “Jobs came first, an acknowledgement that the ability to enjoy liberty depends upon having the economic wherewithal to exercise our rights. The organizing manual for the march … spoke of demands that included “dignified jobs at decent wages.” It is a demand as relevant as ever,” E.J. Dionne Jr., wrote in The Washington Post.

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/the-week-in-review-082313

[daredtowork]

19. Has anyone got a spare tardis lying about?

Bernie was hot way back win! *time stalks*

[BrotherIvan]

22. ...

[sadoldgirl]

7. K&R

It seems so obvious to me that a man, who wants to
support the 99% cannot leave out different genders
or races, even if some people don't seem to see it.

[smokey nj]

10. They know he doesn't want to exclude anybody.

They've decided to take a page out of Karl Rove playbook and attack Bernie on his strongest point. It isn't any different than what was done to Max Cleland or the John Kerry Purple Heart band aids.

[cui bono]

25. Bernie wants justice for all. In both directions.

[hifiguy]

8. Kick and rec.

This is excellent bullshit and troll repellent.

[cui bono]

18. Hopefully. And if it is enlightening to those ignorant of his stances, all the better.

[JaneyVee]

9. Oh no, is this a thing on DU now?

He and the rest of the Dems have excellent records on social issues.

[smokey nj]

11. Yes, sadly it is.

[cyberswede]

12. If you swallow the theory that economic justice only benefits middle class white men. nt

[hifiguy]

24. That idiotic statement

has to be one of the ten stupidest things that has ever been said on DU that was allegedly intended to be taken seriously. Utterly delusional "thinking."

That's fundy/Foxbot kind of stupid.

[Cheese Sandwich]

13. Thanks. I know he is with us on all the key issues...

Not because of trust, but because he has the record to back it up.

[NYC_SKP]

14. Bernie Sanders has all the makings to become the Frontrunner for the Democratic Primary!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. :)

[abelenkpe]

15. K&R

[99Forever]

17. K&R for truth.

[one_voice]

20. Wait. Here on DU someone(s) said Sanders...

was against/not for/didn't think was important--women's rights & other social issues?

[cui bono]

23. Yes. Said that he was only for economic justice and that somehow it was only for white males.

If someone doesn't know Sanders at all they really should stop posting about him like that.

[hifiguy]

26. That individual has lived in

cloud-cuckoo land as long as I have been on DU. That argument was just a long overdue act of self-immolation. That person's credibility is now permanently zero.

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. K&R n/t