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

[Cheese Sandwich]

Wow such listening! :

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



https://twitter.com/NicholsUprising/status/639979477238308864

[in_cog_ni_to]

1. Bernie is an incredible, amazing man.

The more I see and hear him, the more I like him! He really is the people's candidate.

Go, Bernie!

[Scruffy1]

11. I seem to remember another candidate.

Who said he would put on some comfortable shoes and walk the picket line.never happened.

Go Bernie!

[840high]

23. oh yes.

[lark]

46. Bernie is the real deal

He truly cares about workers, unfortunately the president doesnt make the ecoonomic health of workers his priority, that's TPP.

[bvar22]

55. Bernie keeps his "comfortable shoes" handy, more than just a myth,

More than just another empty campaign promise.
Bernie is the Real Deal.

I would be proud to march with him,
and I hope that President Obama is feeling more than just a twinge of shame.

[lbrtbell]

58. You took the words right out of my modem - n/t

[roguevalley]

56. and this is why the AFT endorsement of Clinton done without major polling of membership

is such a backstab.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

16. Me too! You'd never see Hillary doing this. Go Bernie!

[Yallow]

26. Actually You May See Hillary

Doing this.

I will bet she will walk a picket line before the primaries are over.

I am still putting up all 20 Bernie signs I bought around my neighborhood.....

[Eko]

2. Very cool.

[AgingAmerican]

3. Comfortable shoes

nt

[kath]

5. Uh, yeah.

I hear ya.

[Hydra]

6. Indeed

Good to see someone walking in them, rather than talking in them.

[AgingAmerican]

19. Or talking ABOUT them

nt

[Lifelong Protester]

27. Dang! You stole my idea

Yep, bet he didn't have to look for comfortable shoes, he has 'em!

[AgingAmerican]

29. Yep

And probably well worn too....

[hay rick]

34. ^^^

Stark difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

[A Simple Game]

59. It can't be said any better than that.

But be careful, I have been told on DU that you can't use President Obama's own words against him. And I have been told that anything Hillary said or did over a year ago is ancient history and doesn't count anymore. And I have also been told that when Hillary disagrees with the President it's because they have an agreement and it is just part of a long term strategy.

[Skwmom]

4. It is something he has been doing his entire life. If you haven't walked the walk,

you are NOT getting my vote this election.

Of course, if it wasn't on his twitter feed or on his campaign website it might not count as supporting the unions.

[jalan48]

7. Bernie is the man!

[SouthernProgressive]

8. This is awesome. Nt

[silenttigersong]

9. Bernie

THE REAL DEAL

[Feeling the Bern]

10. I can't wait to vote for this man!

[Left Coast2020]

49. I can't wait either

Especially for someone who will NOT negotiate away a "Public Option" for universal health care.


Feeling the Bern here!

[raindaddy]

12. He actually owns a pair of comfortable walking shoes and uses em.

[bullwinkle428]

13. And it was freaking INSANELY HOT here in eastern Iowa today!

Low 90s temperature, with the sun just beating down all day.

K&R.

[lonestarnot]

14. Hell yeah!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

15. I can feel it.....

Bernie is going to win the Iowa caucus.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. I have been racking my brain since I saw this on FB

when was the last time any candidate for potus did this? I can't remember.

[LiberalArkie]

44. I know Robert Kennedy did, I think Jack did also. I can't remember, But I think Carter did also.

[rhett o rick]

52. Now Obama should get partial credit for talking about it. That was candidate Obama. nm

[DrBulldog]

18. Bernie walking with the common people.

People JUST LIKE HIM.

[SHRED]

20. Bernie does what Obama said he was going to do

what a champ!

[Volaris]

21. And I think that's what the summation of his first term

Will be when the historians put the pen to the paper.

[MannyGoldstein]

22. This is the most awesome thing I've ever seen

and that's on the level.

Regards,

First-Way Manny

[neverforget]

24. This proud Union worker is very happy to see him on the picket line!

Go Bernie!!

[wendylaroux]

25. That's my Bernie!

good good person he is.

[think]

28. Walking the walk....

[ciaobaby]

30. My kinda guy !!!!!!

[progressoid]

31. Oh man, this is great. I know a bunch of people that will freak out about this.

They think all unions are evil.

[delrem]

32. I have to so totally KICK this!

[sabrina 1]

33. He actually uses his comfortable shoes! Awesome!

[Divernan]

47. Not HRC's fault Manolo Blahnik doesn't make walking shoes!

And how could can anyone walk a picket line when they have to have their unpaid interns using a rope to keep the great unwashed at a proper distance?

You Bernistas are just so unfair. I may cry!
(Sarcasm)

[dreamnightwind]

35. This is a man who knows whose side he is on

and it is the side of the workers, not the union-busting owners nor the oligarchs who finance the other candidates' campaigns.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Go Labor. nt

[FreakinDJ]

37. Can't wait to see Hilary try to mimic this

[Enthusiast]

38. Kicked and recommended to the Max!

[raven mad]

39. SO like my dad was (union ALL the way).

I think I learned to walk the lines when I was about 8.

We need this man.

[rurallib]

40. as if the billionaires didn't hate him enough

this should really gall them.

So fantastic to see this.

[99Forever]

41. Third Wayers talk about supporting the people.

Real honest leaders do it.


*Feel the Bern*

[TheKentuckian]

42. That is what the fuck is up right there and who Bernie Sanders is.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

43. That's my man!

President Sanders!

[Hepburn]

45. Way to go, Bernie!!!!

He IS one of us!!!!!

[turbinetree]

48. That was beautiful to see.............................

a man sitting in the Congress of this country saying folks--------------------this is what I am "all" about, and it is to you the middle class worker, the working poor ------------------------- I stand with YOU.

And that is why he cares about the ISSUES------------------you and me and our ISSUES

It is not just talk, he walks the walk and he talks the talk














Honk----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

[RoccoR5955]

50. K&R

#FeelTheBern!

[Faux pas]

51. Bernie =

Dedication! Feeling the Bern

[oberliner]

53. Why did he use a megaphone while standing in front of a podium with a mic?

Is there some rationale behind that?

[cali]

62. why do you care? And that's your takeaway from the op.

I really don't get your hostility toward Sanders.

[oberliner]

63. Seems odd

Why not just speak into the microphone? I would think his voice would be clearer and just as loud.

No hostility towards Sanders - I just notice weird things sometimes.

[azmom]

54. Of the people for the people n/t

[DrBulldog]

57. One major problem: many millennials don't even understand unions.

A couple of years ago, while working in an IT shop filled with highly-skilled technical people, a college-educated woman colleague of mine said, "Why do we need unions, they seem to cause so much trouble." I said to her, "Today your boss could fire you with no notice for no reason, is that correct?" She replied, "Well, yes . . .". I said, "Well, if you belonged to a union in this company, that would be nearly impossible." She stared at me for a few seconds, then her eyes began to widen. That was the moment the truth hit her.

[kenfrequed]

60. He has always stood for working people

I love seeing him standing up like this!

[NightWatcher]

61. Gee, who to vote for, the one who was on Walmart's board or the one who walks the line?

Just kidding, there's no question who I'm voting for.

BERNIE!!!

[WillyT]

64. How Can You NOT Vote For Bernie ???

Wow...