Black Lives Matter activists to meet with Sanders on Wednesday
Bernie will meet with Deray McKesson and other members of BLM today:
Black Lives Matter activists to meet with Sanders on Wednesday
By Mark Hensch - September 15, 2015, 04:10 pm
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is meeting with Black Lives Matter activists in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon.
Deray McKesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, confirmed the tentative rendezvous on his Twitter feed Tuesday.
“We’re meeting w/ @BernieSanders tomorrow afternoon in D.C.,” McKesson tweeted. “We just confirmed it this morning."
McKesson offered no additional details about the planned meeting with the Democratic presidential contender.
Sanders's campaign reportedly reached out to the group after activists affiliated with the social justice movement twice disrupted events where he was speaking. Demonstrators first interrupted a Sanders event in Phoenix last July before again protesting during an August event in Seattle....
Full article:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/253719-black-lives-matter-activists-to-meet-with-sanders-on-wednesday
McKesson & Cornel West were among those arrested recently for civil disobedience in Ferguson during a "Moral Mondays" protest outside the U.S. courthouse in St. Louis.:
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/10/cornel_west_deray_mckesson_arrested_during_moral_mondays_protest_in_ferguson/