Where Sanders’ labor platform is most exciting is its proposal for new workers’ rights and forms of union representation that transcend the National Labor Relations Board framework of enterprise-based contract bargaining
He's enlisting his massive volunteer base to pressure companies to change their labor practices - and joining several protests himself. His moves serve to make clear to voters what Sanders means when he calls for a "political revolution."
"If we stand together, we can eliminate private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up."
The Woodstock music festival was 50 years ago this week. It was an epic example of the power of music. Here we present three performances from Woodstock, plus a prelude (D.A. Pennebaker/Duke Ellington) and a coda (Bernie Sanders/Cardi B). Enjoy.
The 77-year-old Vermont senator and 26-year-old Bronx rapper met in a Detroit nail salon to talk police brutality, the economy, and health care
Cardi B takes one of the biggest social media followings in the world, won through music, into political engagement in this interview with Bernie.
The data "contradicts both the mainstream narrative and some national polling data that suggest that only a centrist Democrat could succeed in this political environment."
Tuesday night was Bernie and Liz vs. the world. Warren and Sanders parried attack after attack from a number of centrists desperate to claw their way into the next debate, counter-punching hard as they defended their stridently progressive policies.
Reader Comments: Investigating Trump; Medicare for All; New Red Scare; Concentration Camps and Holocaust Museum; Iran; Exploitation; Socialism; Asylum and Refugees; Resources: Reparations Now Tool Kit; Why End War; Climate Change for Workers
The Democratic debate was an inevitable by-product of turning news into an entertainment and cultural product
Spread the word