Bernie Sanders urges GetUp members to join global 'resistance'

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The US senator Bernie Sanders has called for a global movement to create 'equality and shared prosperity'. Sanders was speaking in a prerecorded message to the Australian activist group GetUp's PowerUp conference. 'Nothing happens or has ever happened unless people on the bottom at the grassroots level stand up and go forward. That is how change always takes place'

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Bernie Sanders urges GetUp members to join global 'resistance'

Monday 25 September 2017 03.44 EDT

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Bernie Sanders, the former US Democratic presidential hopeful, has called on members of the activist group GetUp to join a global “resistance movement” to fight the rise of intolerant political movements in the US, Europe and Australia. In a prerecorded video message, played at GetUp’s first national conference at the weekend in Sydney, Sanders encouraged the group to start working globally with like-minded activists, saying its progressive values were similar to his own. His message was played on Sunday, where 800 GetUp members had gathered to workshop new campaign tactics. “We need a globalised movement towards equality and shared prosperity,” Sanders said in his video.

Paul Oosting, GetUp’s national director, said the weekend conference marked a “significant shift” for the organisation and he welcomed Sanders’ words of encouragement. He said GetUp had been in close contact with key Sanders staff, particularly Becky Bond and Zack Exley – the organisers who pioneered efforts to get tens of thousands of Americans volunteering for Sanders – to learn everything they could about Sanders’ campaigning model.

“We’ve been learning a lot from them because they’re seen as global leaders in the ‘big organising’ model they’ve pioneered,” Oosting said. Sanders used his video message to call on GetUp supporters to be conscious of global political trends, saying progressives must confront the rise of intolerant and authoritarian political movements. He implored GetUp’s supporters to start organising globally.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/25/bernie-sanders-urges-getup-members-to-join-global-resistance