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Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 11:23 AM Oct 2017

Ask the Women's March to Reconsider Sen. Sanders' Role...sign the petition.

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"We, the undersigned, urge the Women’s March to reconsider giving Sen. Bernie Sanders a headlining role at the Women’s Convention on October 27. The convention represents the first gathering of its kind for 40 years, putting it at the center of an intersectional feminist movement. For an event of this kind to center a white, male politician over emerging women leaders, particularly those of color, is very disappointing to us.
We showed up in droves from around the country to march in Washington, New York, Los Angeles, and many other cities because we believe that this country cannot move forward without women’s voices and women’s rights. We marched because the 2016 election put an admitted sexual predator in the White House, and made women in this country and around the world less safe. That day was filled with anger, but also with a deeply shared hope that in resisting together, we could save our country from the devastating impact of a Trump administration. "

https://www.change.org/p/women-s-march-ask-the-women-s-march-to-reconsider-sen-sanders-role?recruiter=9449594&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_content=nafta_copylink_message_1%3Acontrol

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Ask the Women's March to Reconsider Sen. Sanders' Role...sign the petition. (Original Post) Demsrule86 Oct 2017 OP
Link? shenmue Oct 2017 #1
Sorry...I have a memory like a sieve. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #7
Thanks shenmue Oct 2017 #18
A (presumably) online petition? That'll teach them... brooklynite Oct 2017 #2
Sorry...Not Even Bothering Me. Oct 2017 #3
I agree! leftofcool Oct 2017 #4
You all make a good point. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #6
This is if you want...I put it out there...I signed and now I am done with the whole nonsense. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #5
A Good Faith Effort Me. Oct 2017 #8
True that. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #17
so how do you feel about the others, like Maxine Waters participating? has she made her own bed too? JCanete Oct 2017 #20
I love Maxine...and am glad she will speak. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #22
I Quite Agree With You Me. Oct 2017 #23
Sorry, but I'm too busy making sure we kick Retrumplican ass maxrandb Oct 2017 #9
Ah you see that is the problem...I fear what was supposed to be a women's convention is now Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #14
Nope. (nt) YoungDemCA Oct 2017 #10
I wouldn't expect you to sign this petition. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #12
OK, thanks. YoungDemCA Oct 2017 #13
You are welcome. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #16
They should have asked Obama instead leftstreet Oct 2017 #11
I agree...they didn't even invite Michelle Obama...shocking. Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #15
Nahh... Bill Clinton would hav been better.. disillusioned73 Oct 2017 #19
Unless Bill had a sex change operation...doubtful. It should be a woman...it is after all Demsrule86 Oct 2017 #21
I signed LoveMyCali Oct 2017 #24

brooklynite

(94,502 posts)
2. A (presumably) online petition? That'll teach them...
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 11:38 AM
Oct 2017

...Perhaps the message should come from the attendees?

Me.

(35,454 posts)
3. Sorry...Not Even Bothering
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 11:52 AM
Oct 2017

They can do what they want...they've made their position about women amply clear....which is shorthand for they've made their bed, let them sleep in it.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
6. You all make a good point.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 03:15 PM
Oct 2017

Last edited Mon Oct 16, 2017, 04:00 PM - Edit history (1)

It is there. Take it or leave it...sorry I signed it now. I will add thought that those who say women didn't care about having a woman speak at a women's convention are dead wrong...thousands have signed this petition.

 

JCanete

(5,272 posts)
20. so how do you feel about the others, like Maxine Waters participating? has she made her own bed too?
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:15 PM
Oct 2017

I just do not get this shit. People, champions of women's rights are going to be speaking. Even if you think they made a mistake with Sanders, this effort to punish is absurd and is the far more divisive component of this story.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
22. I love Maxine...and am glad she will speak.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:18 PM
Oct 2017

However, to open the woman's convention with a white make speaker...I just don't get it.

maxrandb

(15,320 posts)
9. Sorry, but I'm too busy making sure we kick Retrumplican ass
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 03:26 PM
Oct 2017

in 2018 to participate is any shitty dem/liberal purity fucking tests

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
14. Ah you see that is the problem...I fear what was supposed to be a women's convention is now
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 03:55 PM
Oct 2017

one giant purity test...and the pretend revolution continues... accomplishes nothing of course as usual.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
15. I agree...they didn't even invite Michelle Obama...shocking.
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 03:57 PM
Oct 2017

They claimed to invite Dem women, but I don't believe...there carefully worded statements...nowhere do they explicitly state they asked Democratic women to this shindig. They say nice things about Maxine and co-opt her words...but no mention of her speaking until after the controversy begins.

Demsrule86

(68,552 posts)
21. Unless Bill had a sex change operation...doubtful. It should be a woman...it is after all
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:17 PM
Oct 2017

a woman's convention...not a political rally or so I was lead to believe.

LoveMyCali

(2,015 posts)
24. I signed
Mon Oct 16, 2017, 05:49 PM
Oct 2017

and left a comment. Thanks for the link.

It may not change anything but maybe it will and I can take the 30 seconds it took to sign without giving up on the Resistance.

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