Bernie Sanders picks up megaphone, walks union picket in Cedar Rapids

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Des Moines Register

Jason Noble

CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia. – Bernie Sanders grabbed a sign and then a megaphone as he walked a labor picket line Friday night.

Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, joined perhaps 100 Cedar Rapids-area union workers in an “informational picket” outside Penford Products, a corn processor where the Bakers Confectioners Tobacco Grain Millers union local 100G is negotiating a new contract with the management.

Sanders strolled up to the picket shortly before 5:30 p.m., picked up a sign stapled to a long stick and marched with the crowd to a park across the street from the plant.

“I want you to know being out on a picket line and standing with workers is something I have been doing for my entire life,” Sanders told the crowd. “I did when I was mayor of the city of Burlington, did in Congress, did it in the Senate. This is what I do.”

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Bernie Sanders delivers a speech to union workers in Cedar Rapids through a megaphone after his microphone dies.
(Photo: Jason Noble/The Register)

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/09/04/bernie-sanders-union-picket-cedar-rapids/71732308/

[PoliticAverse]

1. I could see Sanders actually doing the same thing when he's President. n/t

[Chasstev365]

2. I'm Afraid

I love Bernie for being the last of a dying breed: a NEW DEAL DEMOCRAT and will work my ass off for him.

However, I truly fear that corporate interests will take ANY and EVERY means necessary to prevent him for becoming president. If you look at the history of this country, the 1960's in particular, there are money interest in America that will act to stop Bernie and the people from a return to the way democracy used to be in the USA. It's troubling.

[brooklynite]

5. So you're implying they would assassinate him?

Any actual evidence that any of the events in the 60s were fostered by "monied interests"?

[Chasstev365]

13. Who Knows?

Are you saying that the military industrial complex didn't do everything that it could to keep the Vietnam War going? I'd say that was a pretty big money interest.

One of the things Bernie would like to do is get Citizens United overturned. This is one of the main ways our democracy has been taken away from us. Do you really think the Koch Brothers, for example, would just say, "OK, we give up"? I think not.

[brooklynite]

17. So, I guess Hillary needs to keep an eye out as well?

she pledged to appoint Justices to overturn CU two weeks before Bernie.

[Chasstev365]

19. Maybe Brooklynite! However the Clintons have a track record of being Republican Lite

The ARE part of the Washington establishment and have supported things that have ruined this nation. I would support Hillary over ANY Republican in November 2016. However, you can't say that Hillary is as progressive as Bernie Sanders. Bill Clinton did a lot of damage this this nation:

A. Deregulated the Telecommunications Industry. The result was Rush "Blowhard" and Gobbelsvision aka Fox News.
B. NAFTA. The result was the loss of thousands of manufacturing jobs.
C. Repeal of Glass/Steigel with Graham/Leach. The result was an economic meltdown that Barack Obama is still cleaning up.
D. Hillary voted for the Iraq War and the Patriot Act.

Please explain to me exactly how a former self proclaimed "Goldwater Girl" and wife of "Conserva-Dem" Bill will be a strong progressive.

[dorkzilla]

28. Just so I am clear, are you suggesting that Hillary was against the CU SCOTUS decision

before Bernie was? I’m not being provocative I’m really curious.

[brooklynite]

37. I'm talking about when each of the candidates announced their Supreme Court philosophy...

...I was in the room when Clinton did it in April. Sanders did it two weeks later.

[Scootaloo]

45. She has a Secret Service detail. Sanders does not.

[lumberjack_jeff]

18. They would.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

[dorkzilla]

31. And they’ll do it again. funny how even back then the NY Times had it all wrong...

"At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a "gigantic hoax”.

[ORjohn]

39. 60s

In Central and South America United fruit growers were busy in the 60s. Here the gov put on the Vortex rock festival to keep people from attending the convention. The 60s was very dangerous to the status quo as people began to think outside of the box and realized "war sucks." I had a bumper sticker saying that and was almost suspended from high school. Thanks to the ACLU I was not.

[brooklynite]

40. But nobody tried to kill you, right?

[left-of-center2012]

43. Hillary goes nowhere without armed bodyguards

Sanders has his wife as protection.

[coyote]

9. You are not the only one who thinks that n/t

[markmyword]

36. EXECUTIVES ACTION

There's a film out there called EXECUTIVE ACTION made in the late 1960's about the JFK assassination. It fed into conspiracy theories. It shows how the powers that be ( the billionaires who really run this world don't want change),control what's going on.

I don't think it has to be Bernie, it's ANY politician who gets in their way. I often wonder whether Obama had a warning, as he really changed his tune, even after his first election.

The film is black and white originally.
The thing that stayed with me my entire life is the VERY beginning when some man who looks like Colonel Sanders picks up the phone, after watching demonstrations on TV and gives the word to assassinate Kennedy!

The rest of the film shows how they practiced and trained for the assassination.
At the very END they add some information which was true, that again stayed with me my entire life.
They listed many of the people who were in contact with Oswald, witnesses, anyone involved with information about the assassination, had accidents, died etc. The list goes on and on, and the chances of all of these people dying , they had an actuary give the chances of all these particular people dying like 5 million or 5 billion to one!!! It's been a long time since I saw it, but it was high like that!
It doesn't have to be Bernie, it's ANYONE who gets in their way!

Remember Michael Connelly ( I think that's his name ) the IT guy from OHIO, who ran votes through a Republican server and they switched from Democratic to a Republican votes. He was going to testify against Karl Rove and/or Cheney, well his plane that he flew had mechanical problems it crashed and he DIED!! No one to testify against Rove/Cheney!!

[Omaha Steve]

44. Complete movie

Last edited Sun Sep 6, 2015, 08:56 AM - Edit history (1)

[ORjohn]

38. Don't Fear

The truth will set us free. The MSM corporate mouthpiece have already re-framed what is an awakening of the public to the danger of the 1%. They cleverly omit the using the word democrat following social and substitute socialist. To dispel fear, facing it is the sure way to make it crawl back into its hole. Lets make Bernie's brand understood, organic, from the people a voice of reason---especially before going to war.

[cantbeserious]

3. Go Bernie Go

eom

[Duckhunter935]

4. Good job Bernie

but I bet not one of the mainstream covers this.

[JeffHead]

6. Hardest working man in politics.

If we all worked as hard for him as he does for us he can't lose.

[packman]

10. Damn it - that's a lot of sweat for an old guy with a a young man's determination

Someone give that guy a bottle of water .

[azmom]

32. Let's get this man in the White House where

He belongs.

[tabasco]

7. Gotta love Bernie.

If you don't there's something wrong with ya'.

[navarth]

8. Yeah and I'll bet he didn't wait for any 'comfortable shoes'

Bernie gets my vote.

[Hepburn]

11. Wow...in tribute to the Bernie Walk with the Union, I went to the Bernie Store

I ordered two yard signs...and I will proudly display them...right by my CRV with the Bernie sticker on its back window! I also sent another donation!

FEEL THE BERN!!!!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

12. Next time please use the DU for Bernie Act Blue link

Donate to DU for Bernie at Act Blue here: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/duforbernie

He gets the same exact amount of $ on our link. DU doesn't get a dime of it. We are in third place of all groups raising $ for Bernie at Act Blue.


FULL list at link: https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/39795

[Hepburn]

14. Thanks and will do...did not know about the DU link. n/t

[Hepburn]

15. Went to Act Blue and made another donation and...

...signed up for continuing monthly donations for the next 12 months!!!!

Great that we are doing this and I am sending the DU link to my BERNIE pals!

[merrily]

29. Thanks!

[mountain grammy]

22. Thanks, Steve, for that information.

[Yallow]

23. I Spent $250 On Bernie Signs

My whole neighborhood will be BernieVille

Sorry Hill.

[merrily]

30. Nice, thanks!

[azmom]

34. Good going

[Brickbat]

16. This is what "putting on a comfortable pair of shoes and walking" looks like, Mr. President.

[antigop]

20. EXCELLENT! Thanks, Omaha Steve! K&R

[Jack Rabbit]

21. That's my President

!!

[neverforget]

24. "This is what I do." And that is why I support him because he's

genuine and walks the talk.

[retrowire]

25. omg plz plz plz

be my president Bernie!!! this is the best thing EVER.

truly with the people!!!

[jwirr]

26. I lived in Cedar Rapids when my family was young.

This is the ultimate Union town. I am so proud to support Bernie Sanders.

[Duval]

27. What a guy!

His energy/vitality/commitment are contagious. I will be so proud when he's our President and I believe that can be accomplished if we all get out there and work to get him elected. And, yes, he does need protection!
Thanks, Omaha Steve!

[HassleCat]

33. Speaking truth to the grill

In the photo, it appears he has the megaphone aimed at the charcoal grill. Anyway, it's good to have presidential candidates who show an interest in unions. The general practice is to show up on Labor Day, make a few remarks about "...all the admiration we have for the working men and women..." and then disappear until the following Labor Day. Sanders and O'Malley seem to be pushing labor issues closer to the front.

[George II]

35. Sounds good but it wasn't a "picket line" - the union isn't on strike.

[Omaha Steve]

41. You missed info pickett language in the OP!

That too is a Pickett line.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

42. It was a picket line.

Look up "informational picket". It's pretty common. Don't let that get in the way of your agenda though.

[Scootaloo]

46. Seriously? It's right there in the OP, George

Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, joined perhaps 100 Cedar Rapids-area union workers in an “informational picket” outside Penford Products, a corn processor where the Bakers Confectioners Tobacco Grain Millers union local 100G is negotiating a new contract with the management.

It's not hard stuff to follow.