The Architecture Lobby Endorses Bernie Sanders

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We are the only organization in the U.S. that prioritizes the needs of rank-and-file architectural workers. Senator Sanders is a worker’s candidate. Freelancers, firm staff, architects, and designers in every workplace in the U.S. stand to benefit from Sanders’s universal policies, from single-payer healthcare to publicly-funded college to debt forgiveness and a Green New Deal. He has stood with the trade union movement his entire career, and as President he has promised to undertake a structural reshaping of the labor movement to double union membership and empower the entire working class. Sanders envisions a transformative Green New Deal that embraces decarbonization as a social justice issue and leverages federal funding to reorient the building sector away from private gain. We see all of these issues in Sanders’s platform as inextricably linked, just as they are in TAL’s core projects. After all, there can be no sustainable world without sustainable labor practices.

This is an endorsement of a movement that began generations before us, not just of an individual. We believe electing Senator Sanders, who aspires to be an “organizer-in-chief”, will be a crucial step towards creating a more just country. To contribute to a just transition, the design professions must be more than service providers. We invite our peers to join us in this professional transformation, this election, and the work that follows.

http://architecture-lobby.org/project/2020endorsement/

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1. Go to the web site to read their Manifesto

[FightingIrish]

2. This retired architect has never heard of them.