Joe Biden speaking at a campaign event for Hillary Clinton at a September 27, 2016 rally at Drexel University, in Philadelphia. (Photo: Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
After establishment Democrats exploded over a column making the argument that former Vice President Joe Biden is too corrupt to credibly present voters an alternative to President Donald Trump in the 2020 general election, progressives presented more evidence from Biden’s past that make the case against his candidacy.
A column Monday by Zephyr Teachout, a professor of law at Fordham University and supporter of the Democratic presidential bid of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), set off a firestorm for asserting Biden has a “corruption problem” and that his past makes the former vice president a “weak candidate” compared to others in the primary field.
“Here’s the thing,” wrote Teachout, “nominating a candidate like Biden will make it far more difficult to defeat Trump.”
Teachout detailed three major areas of concern: Biden’s prioritization of the financial industry over working Americans, his ties to the healthcare industry, and his connections to the fossil fuel industry. The potential for Trump to use Biden’s record against him in a general election, said Teachout, should not be underestimated.
“Corrupt politicians always use whataboutism,” Teachout wrote. “With Biden, we are basically handing Trump a whataboutism playbook.”
Cenk Uygur, the Young Turks host running for Congress in California’s 25th district, said on Twitter that the argument against Biden for corruption was an easy one to make.
“Of course Biden is corrupt,” said Uygur. “He takes millions in campaign contributions and votes with his donors. It’s obvious.”
Establishment Democrats and members of the media cried foul over the piece, calling it an attack and placing the blame for it at Sanders’ feet.
The Hill‘s Krystal Ball replied by noting the double standard in which it is off the table for Sanders and his team to mark legitimate distinctions between the senator and other candidates while his rivals are allowed to levy unfounded attacks against him.
“So the Sanders campaign isn’t allowed to point things out that are objectively true, while other campaigns are celebrated for nasty invented smears,” Ball tweeted of an attack on the campaign from New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. “Got it.”
Jon Schwarz, a writer for The Intercept, opined that Krugman’s distaste for the attacks was based in his support for Biden and not in a real interest in keeping the primary fair.
“Note Krugman doesn’t say anything here is false, and is not denying Biden is corrupt,” said Schwarz. “Krugman surely knows Biden is corrupt (although in the standard Washington way, not the insane lurid Trump way). Krugman just objects to anyone mentioning these facts.”
Sanders, for his part, disavowed Teachout’s article and claimed not to believe Biden is corrupt in an interview with CBS News.
“Thanks for acknowledging this, Bernie,” Biden tweeted in response. “These kinds of attacks have no place in this primary. Let’s all keep our focus on making Donald Trump a one-term president.”
Giving Biden the ability to pivot away from discussing that history and calling for ignoring it altogether, saidIntercept journalist Mehdi Hasan, is a problem.
“It is political malpractice that none of his rivals have brought up Biden’s sponsorship of the infamous bankruptcy bill on behalf of the credit card industry in Delaware at a single TV debate so far,” Hasan said, “which allows Biden to then put out tweets like this.”
Journalist Sam Adler-Bell agreed and noted the possibility of the GOP taking advantage of a gaping hole in Biden’s credibility with voters.
“Biden is corrupt and the Sanders campaign is justified in saying so,” said Adler-Bell. “Just on electability grounds, Biden’s record is a huge opening for Trump (also corrupt).”
As a number of progressives pointed out, Biden’s history at the very least hints at corruption and nepotism of the kind described by Teachout and used by Republicans to defend Trump from impeachment over withholding aid to Ukraine until the country’s leaders announced an investigation into Biden’s son Hunter’s employment by gas company Burisma.
With the politics of impeachment looming and Biden’s documented history of promoting the interests of corporate donors clear to anyone willing to look, the time to air out the current national frontrunner’s record is now, saidCurrent Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson.
“If we don’t point out the truth, we risk getting stuck with a corrupt candidate that Trump will crush,” Robinson said.
Teachout, in her column Monday, called on Democrats to choose a different path.
“We still have time to break with this culture of corruption,” wrote Teachout. “We don’t have to choose Biden’s way, which would give Trump a perfect foil.”
“We have a rare opportunity to end a larger culture of corruption and we should take it,” she added. “We will regret it if we don’t.”Our work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely.
News broke this week that the Trump administration plans to illegally redirect another $7.2 billion from the Pentagon to pay for the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
1. Tuesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm, Fight for Deeply Affordable Housing
Community Room, Park Branch Library 1833 Page Street (betw Cole & Shrader) SF
Wheelchair accessible
Free
Theresa Flandrich, a leading SF tenant and affordable housing organizer, will give facts and figures showing that a significant share of SF seniors are too poor to meet the minimum income requirements of SF’s so-called low-income senior housing. Seniors are the fastest-growing element of homelessness. We must fight for deeply affordable housing within reach of everyone.
In 2013 Theresa and her son received an Ellis Act Notice which prompted her to organize the fight to keep her home and her community intact. She co-founded the North Beach Tenants Committee to inform residents of their rights; updated on the current housing crisis; and what SF is doing to preserve San Francisco for future generations. Theresa brings her powerful experience and energy to Senior and Disability Action, where she continues to fight evictions and improve housing in SF.
After Theresa speaks, we will have our monthly SF Gray Panther meeting.
2. Tuesday, 6:00pm – 7:00pm, Stand with Refugio and Elvira Nieto – at Alex Nieto’s altar
Bernal Hill SF
Public transportation # 67 MUNI. Catch it on 24th St. at Mission across from McDonalds
On the monthly anniversary of Alex’s murder on the 21st day of each month, gather with the Nieto’s at Alex’s altar site on Bernal Hill.
All are welcomed
On March 21, 2014, Alejandro “Alex” Nieto, 28 years old, was killed when he was struck by 14 to 15 bullets (of a total of 59 shots) fired by four San Francisco Police Department officers, on Bernal Hill Park, without justification. The officers who killed Alex Nieto are: Sgt. Jason Sawyer (then lieutenant. He is also the killer of John Smart in 1998!), Officer Roger Morse, Officer Richard Schiff, and Officer Nathan Chew.
4. Thursday, 6:30pm – 8:30pm, A sneak preview of We Cried Power, a documentary about the Poor People’s Campaign
Redstone Building 2940 16th St. (nr. 16th St. BART) SF
Venue is wheelchair accessible
Donations accepted.
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s radical legacy and his vision for and leadership of the Poor People’s Campaign, please join the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign for a screening of a 45-minute sneak preview of We Cried Power, a documentary about the current iteration of the Poor People’s Campaign.
Following the screening, you will hear from active members of the Bay Area Poor People’s Campaign and our goal of raising the funds to get 150 Bay Area residents, including impacted people, to Washington, DC for the June 20th, 2020 March on Washington.
Organized by the Poor People’s Campaign Bay Area Supporters
The concept of “public safety” has often been used to justify increased police presence in communities of color, prosecuting quality of life offenses, and continuing the crisis of mass incarceration.
After decades of reinforcing increased interactions with the criminal justice system, it’s clear these policies are not working.
Join the San Francisco chapter of the ACLU and its guest panelists on Thursday, January 23 as we explore how alternatives to policing and
incarceration are ultimately more effective ways to promote public safety for all of us.
6. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Protest the San Francisco Police Officers Association – Weekly protest.
San Francisco Police Officers Association 800 Bryant @ 6th Street (outside) SF
Mothers on the March Against Police Murders and Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality
‘Declare the Police Officers Association a Non Grata Organization’
‘Jail Killer Cops!’
The Police Officers Association claims to be a union, in reality it is an organization that is based on racism, white supremacy and Nazi ideology. It protects police officers that come into our communities to terrorize and murder our black and brown brothers and sisters.
We demand that the San Francisco Police Officers Association be shut down!
All are welcomed to stand with us even if you can only make it for a few minutes
Come join our family as we come together to celebrate the the 3rd anniversary of the murder of angel Ramos there will be food and drinks starting at 6pm then we will be doing a candlelight and balloon release hope to see everyone there
Gather in front of Verizon at 11am. Around 11:15, we’ll march to MLK Park, then back to Shattuck in front of ATT, TMobile and other nearby cellphone stores. We plan to end up back at Verizon by noon. Just an hour and an easy 5 or 6 block walk.
9. Saturday, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Global No More War! Free Assange & Manning Solidarity
Meet at:
Powell & Market St. SF
We must stand/speak out in solidarity on this GLOBAL day of protest for NO.MORE.WAR! We the People stand against DIRECT THREAT to FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy INTIMIDATION, SILENCING and WAR distraction! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL, while truth-tellers Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning sit jailed for revealing WAR CRIMES!
We the People stand against root threat to FreePress/FreeSpeech by oligarchy silencing! WE ARE FIGHTING FOR OUR VERY DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL! We demand the perpetual war machine and the killing, torture and jailing of truth-tellers to STOP! We demand the freedom of multi-award-winning journalist, publisher and Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. We demand the release of whistle-blower Chelsea Manning who revealed war crimes (https://youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0) that go unpunished to this day. Please see Defend dot Wikileaks dot org for facts.
The attack and arrest by the British government and police on Julian Assange with the direct support of the US-controlled ($4.2 BILLION PAID in IMF to:) Ecuadoran government and the US government is an attack on all journalists, whistleblowers, and democracy. It is aimed at closing down all alternative media. The news We the People hear shall only be controlled by the government, says the government. There is NO PROSECUTION of the war criminals exposed by WikiLeaks, Assange, Chelsea Manning or other journalists and whistleblowers- now under attack and imprisoned; property seized without warrants, homes invaded and turned over- regularly- IN THIS COUNTRY!
PLEASE BRING signs and any bull horns you have to this NON-VIOLENT PROTEST.**
Hosts: Bay Area Action Committee To Free Julian Assange (BAACFJA) via BayAction2FreeAssange dot com.
10. Saturday, 12Noon – 3:00pm, San Francisco: Global Day of Protest – No War on Iran!
Meet at:
Powell & Market St. SF
The Trump administration is dragging the United States into a war with Iran that could engulf the whole region and could quickly turn into a global conflict of unpredictable scope and the gravest consequences.
The people of the world need to rise up and stop it. For all who believe in peace, for all who are opposed to yet another catastrophic war, now is the time to take action.
11. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, How to win a campaign for better mental health care
Unitarian Universalist Society 1187 Franklin St. (nr Geary Blvd) SF
UU Sunday Morning Forum:
San Francisco is currently in two campaigns for better mental health care: for the homeless, using city funds; and through Kaiser Permanente. Our speaker is an active Unitarian Universalist with roots in the Bay Area as well as experience as a professor of Public Health at the Univ. of Minnesota. Her award-winning book, The Crusade for Forgotten Souls, concerns a campaign led by Unitarians in Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s that was remarkably successful
John Buehrens will introduce Professor Foote and moderate the discussion.
Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), along with several coalition partners in the US, invites you to join a national day of protest against the draconian Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and in solidarity with the millions in India whose rights are being brutally suppressed. CAA has ignited worldwide protests since it violates India’s secular constitution (Articles 14 and 15) and is reminiscent of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg laws that made religion a criteria for Citizenship. CAA in combination with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) lays the legal foundation to denaturalize millions. The Indian government has already embarked on building the largest network of detention centers in the world for the millions of impoverished and marginalized citizens.
12. Sunday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm, Rekindling the Movement that Won Abortion Rights
New Valencia Hall 747 Polk St. (nr. Ellis) SF
Wheelchair accessible
Homecooked lunch served at 12:15 pm for $8-10 donation (work exchange available if necessary)
At FSP Bay Area’s monthly branch meeting, veteran abortion rights defender Nancy Reiko Kato analyzes the critical fight that led to this fundamental right for women.
Join the discussion on how best to keep abortion and expand reproductive justice!
Fred Craves is the owner of Gamechanger LLC. For over a year, he and his lackeys, The Law offices of Alan J horowitz and “the Evictors” have been harrassing The West Oakland Wood St community, all in attempt to develop the land beneath their feet.
Join The United Front Against Displacement and The West Oakland Wood St Community in a Rally against the Law offices of Alan J Horowitz. These law offices call themselves “The Evictors” and specialize in helping landlords evict working people. The Billionaire Fred Craves is using these law offices to harrass and take legal action against the homeless residents of Wood st. These crooks want to develop the land and make millions, leaving the homeless people of Oakland with nothing and nowhere to go.
Protect our Children from Contamination and Cancer—we must not build schools on Treasure Island
Tuesday January 28, 2020 6:00 PM
Public Comment For Upcoming San Francisco School Board Meeting
San Francisco Unified School District 550 Franklin St. San Francisco
Protect our Children from Contamination and Cancer—we must not build schools on Treasure Island
“My name is Dr. Nayvin Gordon. I am a board Certified Family Medicine Physician who has worked in California for 40 years.
It is no secret that the Navy contaminated Treasure Island with nuclear radiation for decades. Based on the extent of radiation contamination already discovered, the entire island must be assumed to be contaminated. The world has long known about the dangers of radiation. Some examples are: death and cancer from the nuclear bombs exploded in Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the mutations and growth defects of babies born to women who were given x- rays when pregnant; the high cancer rate in nuclear plant workers; the deaths and cancers after the nuclear plant Chernobyl explosion.
Radiation, even at very low levels, causes genetic mutation, growth defects, leukemia and cancers. Radiation is dangerous to life, especially to children and pregnant women who are more sensitive to radiation damage.
Since 1980 the incidence of cancer in children has been increasing at 3% every year. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10379458 The Center for Disease Control (CDC) documents a steady rise in childhood leukemia and brain cancer from 1999 through 2010. Our children do not need more radiation in their environment.”
Speak-Out Against Another Charter School on Radioactive SF Treasure Island
Stop Poisoning The Students, Teachers & Staff
Wednesday February 5
1PM San Francisco City Hall Rm 400 SF
Join United Public Workers For Action UPWA, Defend Public Education NOW! and other community members and trade unionists protesting the decision of London Breed’s Treasure Island Development Authority Board to approve a charter at the radioactive contaminated Treasure Island. There has been a decades-long cover-up of the dangers at the Island that continues today. Tetra Tech radiation health and safety inspectors were illegally fired and bullied after reporting the falsification of testing and dangerous radioactive materials on the island. This radioactive material still exists on the island and is a threat to health and safety. This is a super-fund site that has not been cleaned up despite the efforts of agencies like SFUSD, DPH, and TIDA to declare that this site and Hunters Point is safe.
This charter school which they now say they want to open up on a closed public school is a serious danger to the lives of the students, faculty and. staff. It had previously been shut down by SFUSD because of serious and deadly health and safety issues for the students, staff, and teachers. The conditions at the public school when it was operating will also be reported on at the press conference.
Despite calls by UPWA and others about these dangers, there continues to be another charter on the Island. Speakers will report on the highly dangerous site and the systemic cover-up of the radioactive dangers including to residents of the island and how this is a threat to any potential students at this charter, the other charter and the lack of protection for the residents and tenants at the island.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. waves to onlookers while leading the 125,000 strong ‘Walk to Freedom’ on Woodward Avenue in Detroit in 1963. (Photo: Tony Spina / Detroit Free Press)
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. To be fair, I guess I should wish “Sorry it’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day” to the people who don’t believe it should be a holiday and the politicians who voted against making it one. I’m talking to you, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY), Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA).
While both parties attempt to claim Dr. King, the Republicans have a much harder time doing so without distorting history and the truth. But the truth is, most politicians would distance themselves from Dr. King’s stunning (and spot on) indictments of capitalism. There are, of course, a few exceptions, here and there.
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day, let’s look at some of the things he said challenged capitalism and are left out of most history books.
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic… [Capitalism] started out with a noble and high motive… but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness.”– Letter to Coretta Scott, July 18, 1952.
“And one day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in America? And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth.’ When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. And I’m simply saying that more and more, we’ve got to begin to ask questions about the whole society…”–Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
“Capitalism forgets that life is social. And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis.”–Speech to Southern Christian Leadership Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 16, 1967.
“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God’s children.”– Speech to the Negro American Labor Council, 1961.
“We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power… this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together… you can’t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others… the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.”– Report to SCLC Staff, May 1967.
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”–Speech to SCLC Board, March 30, 1967.
“I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective – the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed matter: the guaranteed income… The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.”– Where do We Go from Here?,1967.
“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”– Speech to his staff, 1966.
“[W]e are saying that something is wrong … with capitalism…. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”– Speech to his staff, 1966.
“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.”– Speech at Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ in support of the Memphis sanitation workers’ strike on March 18th, 1968, two weeks before he was assassinated.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders delivers remarks during a campaign rally in Exeter, New Hampshire on Saturday, January 18, 2020 while artist Molly Crabapple holds a drawing she did of the 2020 Democratic candidate. (Photo and Drawing: Molly Crabapple/Courtesy of the artist)
“It’s going to be the most epic case of moral whiplash the world has ever seen. And it’s going to inspire the people around the world.”
They are not official members or designated surrogates of the campaign, but a potent and dynamic trio are among those showing up on the trail for Sen. Bernie Sanders these days, determined to tell all who will listen just how profound an opportunity voters in the United States now have before them: the chance to elect an unapologetic progressive and visionary to the most powerful elected office in the country at a time when people and the planet need a champion they can trust unlike any time in living memory.
Photo of a drawing by artist and write Molly Crabapple of actor and progressive activist John Cusack at a campaign rally in New Hampshire over the weekend. (Credit: Molly Crabapple/Courtesy of the artist)
Ahead of Monday’s official commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr., actor and activist John Cusack, journalist and public intellectual Naomi Klein, and writer and artist Molly Crabapple were among those who joined Sen. Bernie Sanders on the campaign trail in New Hampshire over the weekend to meet with voters and explain to rally-goers why their preferred candidate—coupled with the grassroots movement he now leads—represents something extremely rare in U.S. politics.
At a pair of rallies on Saturday—one in Exeter and another in Manchester—Cusack argued that Sanders stands in the great prophetic tradition of civil rights icons like MLK Jr., Fanny Lou Hammer, and Ella Baker as well as other warriors for social justice throughout U.S. history such as Eugene Debs, Phil and Daniel Berrigan, and Dorothy Day.
A writer and longtime activist in addition to his career as an actor, Cusack co-authored the book, along with Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, “Things that Can and Cannot Be Said,” and is also a founding board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation which advocates for journalist freedoms and free speech.
Cusack told the crowd in Manchester that what the Sanders campaign has undertaken is not isolated from the great social and labor movements of the past, but rather the continuation of an ongoing struggle against capitalist greed, militarism, racism, sexism, and the pervasive inequities that only a great many people joined together in community and solidarity can overcome.
When he came on the national political scene in the 1980’s, said Cusack, Sanders “said all the things that cannot be said—and he was absolutely fearless. This was a man with a deep and powerful connection to the truth—a person with remarkable courage—who proclaimed the absolute need for justice equality and dignity for all people.”
During his career since, Cusack continued, Sanders has told the nation “what we needed to hear, not what we wanted to hear.” And Cusack argues Sanders’ honesty is proof that he respects the American people.
“When a person respects you, they tell you the fuckin’ truth,” Cusack told the crowd in Exeter, though he immediately apologized for the language and jokingly wondered if the campaign—for which he is a volunteer—might fire him.
Like MLK Jr., Cusack argued in his speech, Sanders has taken positions—often lonely positions—unpopular in his day but prophetic for their time. Like Dr. King, Sanders “voiced the forbidden connections between capitalism, imperialism, racism, sexism—yes, even global warming—the era of endless wars that he saw coming, and the war economies that [President Dwight] Eisenhower warned about.”
“When Bernie Sanders is in the White House, he is going to fight for us. And how do we know that? Because he has always fought for us.” —Molly Crabapple, artist and writer
For Cusack, it is the “deep and powerful connection to the truth” of Sanders that sets him apart.
“He spoke for the absolute need for justice and equality and dignity for all people,” said Cusack, and did so in a way that was “unrelentingly powerful in its moral clarity.”
Sanders has “offered a principled and visionary critique of American empire,” he added, and “publicly, loudly, and boldly rejected the hideous lie that uncheck greed and predatory capitalism—in all its cruelty—was good.”
For his consistency and steadfastness over the years, Cusack said it is clear that Sanders is “one of the true inheritors of the mantle of the great American voices for justice in America.”
Watch Cusack’s remarks in Manchester on Saturday:
“For 40 years we’ve endured class warfare from above,” Cusack said. “And for 40 years Bernie Sanders was there fighting back. And for four decades, Bernie was right—again and again and again.”
“We’ve never ever in our lifetimes had a true champion of social, economic, and climate justice this close to the White House,” Cusack added. Calling Sanders “a profile of courage, clarity, and consistency for 40 years,” he told the crowd it is crucial to understand that the senator’s critique of the “neoliberal period” the nation has been living through since Ronald Reagan has been spot on, and that unfortunately his “prophetic warnings have come to pass.”
But has “the world caught up to Bernie Sanders’ moral vision?” Cusack asked. “Well, that’s up to us.”
Commentators on social media noted just how unusual it is for surrogates to deliver such far-ranging critiques on behalf of their preferred candidate.
In remarks at an event in Conway, New Hampshire on Sunday afternoon, writer and artist Molly Crabapple—who has, in fact, drawn what the Green New Deal could and should look like—said, “I believe we have to be able to see the future we are fighting for.”
After denouncing Trump as a “reality TV show huckster”—someone who “stokes vile bigotry while he and his rich friends rob America blind”—Crabapple asked: “Do you know what beats the politics of hate? The politics of solidarity.”
“We have the chance to elect a president who has spent his whole life fighting for the working class,” she added. “When Bernie Sanders is in the White House, he is going to fight for us. And how do we know that? Because he has always fought for us.”
Joining Crabapple and Cusack on the trail for the Sanders campaign over the weekend was Naomi Klein, a friend of both and another well-known progressive who in November endorsed Sanders not only based on his longtime commitment to social justice but because she also believes there is simply no other candidate in the race who has adequately shown they understand the “existential urgency” of the climate crisis.
“For 40 years we’ve endured class warfare from above. And for 40 years Bernie Sanders was there fighting back.” —John Cusack, actor and activist“We are here saying ‘Not me, Us,'” Klein said during the Exeter rally on Saturday, “because we know that even if the White House has turned into the set of some twisted, never-ending, nuclear-armed reality TV show—this is, in fact, not a show. This is reality. And we need a real human being in the White House who gets the stakes—the unfathomable stakes—of the moment that we are living; that gets it in their bones. And that person is Senator Bernie Sanders.”
Decrying how little progress was made—and how much opposition there was to even incremental change the last time Democrats had control of the White House and Congress—Klein, whose latest book is “On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal,” argued what Sanders represents is something that was nearly impossible to imagine just a few years ago.
“I want you to picture what it would look like to have a president in the White House,” Klein said, “who we didn’t have to find and drag, kicking and screaming, to stop new pipelines and new corporate trade deals that don’t mention climate change or new fracking projects—but who actually was an organizer-in-chief who understood the existential urgency and wanted to lead this transformation with movements driving it from below.”
Watch Klein’s speech in Manchester on Saturday:
At the rally in Conway on Sunday, Klein espoused confidence that Sanders will win the Democratic nomination and ultimately defeat Trump in November.
“It’s going to be the most epic case of moral whiplash the world has ever seen,” Klein said. “And it’s going to inspire people around the world to find their own survival instinct and act like the house is on fire—because it is.”
Though clear-eyed about the challenges and opposition the Sanders campaign now faces, Klein said, “I believe we can perform this miracle.”
“It’s going to be the most epic case of moral whiplash the world has ever seen. And it’s going to inspire people around the world.” —Naomi Klein, author and activistBut she didn’t always feel that way, she admitted to the crowd.
“I did not always believe that a man as principled as Bernie Sanders, with his record fighting against war and greed and for the rights of working people and a healthy environment, could be president,” she said.
Why? Because, she told the crowd, “I think the answer is that our expectations were low because our expectations had been systematically lowered for a very long time.”
Like Cusack, Klein invoked the 40-year period of neoliberalism since Reagan as a time of defeats and defensive measures for the progressive movement.
“Don’t get me wrong,” Klein said, “we put up some good fights: against bad trade deals and factory shut downs, and illegal wars and polluting pipelines and healthcare cut-backs and racist police violence. And sometimes we won a single victory in these fights. Mostly we didn’t.”
Watch Klein’s speech in Conway on Sunday:
According to Klein, Sanders’ run in 2016 changed this dynamic for social movements, organizers, and regular people in significant ways. And now, with a larger, more organized movement behind him than ever before—representing millions of people who previously did not realize just how many others there were or how powerful they could be—something has profoundly changed in ways that once seemed impossible to imagine.
And while Sanders and the grassroots movement that he is leading are now on the verge of something potentially historic, Klein warned “there is profound responsibility” for what happens next, “because now our entire planet hangs in the balance” in the crucial years ahead.
“And if Bernie was right about what we should have done in the past 40 years,” Klein continued, “then it’s time to believe that he is right about what we can do in the next 40 years. To really believe it. Because screw being right—this time we are going to win.”
“Screw being right—this time we are going to win.” —Naomi KleinFor progressives who share the critique of society’s ills and the economy’s shortcomings that the Sanders campaign articulates, Klein argued that now—in this moment which Crabapple described as a moment of both “danger” and “possibility”—is not the time for ruminating on what could have been or lamenting lost opportunities in the past.
Citing a phrase Cusack delivered the day before when he described Sanders as someone with the “future in his eyes,” Klein ended her speech Sunday by saying it’s increasingly clear the world is catching up to the wisdom Sanders has long been offering.
“He was waiting for us,” she said. “All of us. The power of us. The power so long suppressed under that blanket of lies.”
And that, she concluded, is “what this campaign is all about.”
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Washington Post Live Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says there is a massive amount of racial disparity in America, from income inequality to healthcare gaps. “When I talked about creating an America that works for all people, it means doing away with the systematic, systemic racism that exists from coast to coast.” Sanders also said, “Trump thrives on fear, and fear very often is based on just not knowing people who are a little bit different than we are…the way we beat fear and xenophobia is by understanding, at the end of the day, that people no matter what the color of their skin is, no matter what their religion is, end up having the same dreams and the same aspirations.”
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(DemocracyNow.org) January 16, 2020 – We continue our conversation with Oakland mother Misty Cross, who was evicted alongside other mothers fighting homelessness Tuesday from a vacant home they had been occupying for two months. Facing homelessness and skyrocketing rents, the working mothers moved into the house on 2928 Magnolia Street in November and stayed despite an eviction notice from real estate developer Wedgewood Properties. Their movement — Moms 4 Housing — gained international attention and became a rallying cry against rampant income inequality and homelessness in the Bay Area and across the U.S. But early Tuesday morning, Cross and three others were arrested by a heavily militarized police force, sparking outrage. All four were released on bail Tuesday afternoon. We also speak with Cross’s daughter Destiny Johnson and Oakland activist Carroll Fife, the director of the Oakland office for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.
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1. Thursday, 6:30pm – 9:00pm, Born on the MOVE with Mike Jr, Debbie, and Mike Africa Sr
The Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics 518 Valencia St. (nr. 16th St.) SF
Wheelchair accessible
Join us for a powerful event featuring MOVE organization members Mike Africa Jr, and his parents Mike Sr and Debbie Africa – two former political prisoners who won their freedom after each were held for 40 years in prison.
Using storytelling and hip hop, Mike Africa Jr will take us on a journey of his life from the day that he was secretly born in prison, to the bombing of his family on May 13th, 1985, up to his parents’ release from prison. Mike will then be joined by his parents Debbie and Mike Africa, Sr for a moderated conversation.
2. Thursday, 7:00pm – 9:00pm, 5G Community Discussion with Dafua Tachover, Max Anderson, Lloyd Morgan
South Berkeley Senior Center 2939 Ellis St. (nr. Ashby BART) Berkeley
5G Community DISCUSSION with world-renowned 5G expert DAFNA TACHOVER Esq. Hosted by Berkeley City Council Members Ben Bartlett and Cheryl Davila with WIreless Radiation Education and Defense (WiRED.) Plus retired electronic engineer/scientist LOYD MORGAN, an industry spokesperson (invited), and former Council member MAX ANDERSON. Followed by audience comments/questions.
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM WITH 5G and other wireless telecom facilities (aka WTF)? 5th Generation (not to be confused with 5 Gigahertz) will cause a drastic increase in: surveillance, hacking, fire risk, interference with weather prediction, property devaluations, energy use, worker endangerment, industrial clutter, co$t to cities and individuals, and adverse health/environmental effects due to radiation! For more info, see the indybay news item 2020/01/04/18829432.php by Jenny Miller, “The 5G Juggernaut: Coming Soon to a Utility Pole Outside Your Home.”
3. Friday, 7:30am – 9:00am, Wake Up Call: Part of MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend
MacArthur BART Station Plaza 555 40th St. Oakland
Join SURJ’s Mobilization Committee for our annual “Wake-Up Call” during the 6th Annual Reclaim Martin Luther King Jr.’s Radical Legacy Weekend. We’ll be calling commuters in with broadcasts of inspiring MLK speeches, passing out information on alternatives to calling the police, and inviting people to come out to Monday’s big MLK Day rally and march (see https://www.facebook.com/events/747077179148170/ for more info).
4. Friday, 10:00am – 1:00pm, Oakland Climate Strike and Resilient Village
Oscar Grant Plaza 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (nr. 12th St. BART) Oakland
Join Oakland youth for a community Resilient Village to raise awareness on climate resilience and how youth can stand up for climate justice, with hands-on workshops on herbal making, civic engagement, art, water catchment, live art making, youth performances, an open mic, and more. This event will provide youth with strategies for addressing climate change within their families and communities and ways to work for climate justice on a local and global scale. This action is youth led and co-hosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Planting Justice and others.
This action is youth led and co-hosted by YVA, Mycelium Youth Network, Anti Police Terror Network, Planting Justice and others.
5. Friday, 12Noon – 2:00pm, Protest the San Francisco Police Officers Association – Weekly protest.
San Francisco Police Officers Association 800 Bryant @ 6th Street (outside) SF
Mothers on the March Against Police Murders and Black and Brown for Justice, Peace and Equality
‘Declare the Police Officers Association a Non Grata Organization’
‘Jail Killer Cops!’
The Police Officers Association claims to be a union, in reality it is an organization that is based on racism, white supremacy and Nazi ideology. It protects police officers that come into our communities to terrorize and murder our black and brown brothers and sisters.
We demand that the San Francisco Police Officers Association be shut down!
All are welcomed to stand with us even if you can only make it for a few minutes
6. Friday, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, Forum Honoring MLK Jr. “Money for War, But Can’t Feed the Poor?”
PSL 2969 Mission St. SF
Last month, Congress passed and Trump signed a record Pentagon budget of $738 billion — $738,000,000,000 — more than the next 10 countries in the world combined! The Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate supported this obscene war budget; without them, it wouldn’t have passed. At the same time, the Trump regime announced it was kicking up to four million people, half of them children, off food stamps starting January 1, 2020 — and then moved to start another deadly war in the Middle East.
Across the country, people are fighting back including with the Poor People’s Campaign, a revival of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1968 campaign that worked to unite and organize all poor and oppressed people against the evils of poverty, racism, and war. Join us to discuss how we can fight to fund people’s needs, not more wars!
Join us to build “The Right to Exist” Village – January 18 and 19, 10am-5pm – no experience necessary!
For the past three years, The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople has participated in Reclaiming Dr. Martin Luther King’s Radical Legacy by reclaiming unused and/or neglected public landed owned by the City of Oakland to build temporary emergency shelter for our brothers and sisters living on the streets.
The goals are simple: 1. Let people get off the ground, out of tents and into something safe until permanent deeply affordable housing is accessible to our people. 2. Show how illegitimate, ineffective, cruel and inhumane the mayor and her Encampment Management Team are in approaching the homeless crisis that her decisions helped create. 3. Connect the dots between gentrification, the housing affordibility crisis and the homeless state of emergency. 4. Inspire regular people like us – both housed and unhoused – to take matters in our own hands and provide community driven solutions since city hall refuses to.
This past year, we focussed on upgrading existing curbside communities by building homes and communal kitchens, upgrading self made homes,, defending self built homes from demolition, and improving conditions at curbside communities that are neglected or brutalized by the mayor’s encampment management team.
One such community is in East Oakland behind the Burger King on East 12th and 14th Ave. We built three emergency homes, are providing regular trash service, and supported the residents in their political empowerment – in particular learning about their rights and developing self government.
This Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, instead of moving on to an empty piece of public land, we call all housed and unhoused volunteers to concentrate our energies on this East Oakland encampment and finish building “The Right To Exist” Curbside Community – that the longterm residents have designed and named.
On January 18 & 19th from 10am to 5pm, we will build 5 tiny homes, a communal kitchen, a solar shower, a bike operated washer, raised garden beds, and paint murals on the three finished homes. We will serve food all day, do a huge trash pick up along East 12th from 14th to 22nd Ave, and offer workshops and services for our unhoused brothers and sisters:
If you want to help us prepare, you can join a committee by contacting Needa Bee at 510-355-7010
Occupied deep east Huchuin (Oakland) like most intentionally “Blighted” poor peoples of color neighborhoods across Amerikkklan has literally hundreds of hoarded &vacant parcels of Mama Earth being hoarded by realESnakes,speculators,bankkks & devil-opers waiting for the right moment to strike aka the occupied mama earth aka “property” values to “rise” -This is the standard operating formula for GentriFUKation & we houseless/indigenous poor peoples trying to build our own self-determined solution to homelessness we call Homefulness are right in the middle of ground zero of this violent destruction, which is why when we first began this liberation movement we launched DeGentrification Zones – DGZ A CityWide Plan for Decolonization and have worked everyday, while manifesting/ building to help long-time residents stay here
The violent hoarding, gating, fencing and GentriFUKing of BlackArthur (MacArthur), East, North, West Oakland and all of the Bay Area leads to displacement, foreclosure, removal, evictions and homelessness of life-long Oakland/Bay Area residents and has thousands of us dying on the streets while others hoard, occupy and steal -join us on 6th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Weekend to pray ,remember vision, ,degentriFUK &liberate for ancestors ,mama earth & all of us …
11. Sunday, 9:30am – 11:00am, The Poor People’s Campaign in the Bay Area
Unitarian Universalist Society of SF 1187 Franklin SF
Virginia Hollins – Davidson, member of the steering committee of the Poor People’s Campaign and the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists will speak about the Poor People’s Campaign in the S.F. Bay Area.
13. Sunday, 2:00pm – 5:00pm, Alternatives to Policing: How Not to Call the Cops Ever
First Congregational Church of Oakland (UCC) 2501 Harrison St. Oakland
Accessibility:
guests in wheelchairs or scooters need to drive or be dropped off at the top of the back parking lot. * Wheelchair users do access the building with assistance by driving or being dropped off at the top of the back parking lot.
* Unless a member of your group has propped the door open, wheelchair users will need assistance opening the blue door since there is not yet a push button switch on it. * Once inside, most ground-floor rooms are accessible using a wheelchair. * Please come scent-free;
This month we will learn from a community of people who have practiced not calling the police for more than 20 years while living through their own collective traumas, colonization, gentrification, family violence, eviction, incarceration, displacement, betrayal and attempted takedown.
Here is a description from POOR Magazine/Homefulness:
“This workshop will include teaching on poor and traumatized peoples accountability, how to REdefine a western wite supremacist notion of security, and how to hold each other through trauma and into a true definition of interdependent safety.
Walking this walk among a poor and indigneous peoples-led movement means facing our demons ALL THE TIME because we all come out of collective trauma experiences of racism, wite supremacy, ablism, family violence, false borders, eviction, houselessness, criminalization, elder/child abuse, sexual violence, rape, incarceration, poLICE violence genderism, hate crimes and so much more.”
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
POOR Magazine is a poor people led/indigenous people led, grassroots non-profit,arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education and advocacy to silenced youth, adults and elders in poverty across the globe.
HOMEFULNESS is a poor people led/indigenous people led revolution: a sweat equity, permanent co-housing, education, arts and social change project for houseless and formerly houseless families and individuals in deep East Oakland/Huichin
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP SERIES
A growing coalition of organizations in the Bay Area is coming together to explore alternatives to calling the police to our campuses and into our neighborhoods. Over the coming year, we will be offering a series of workshops to explore alternatives to calling the police.
Hosts: First Congregational Church of Oakland, POOR Magazine, Kahilla Community Synagogue, APTP, SURJ Oakland Bay Area, JVP
14. Sunday, 4:00pm – 8:00pm, Santa Rita Jail Support
Meet at:
Lake Merritt BART Station (Outside) 800 Madison St. Oakland
Join APTP in sharing hot food, drinks, and solidarity with folks visiting loved ones at and getting released from Santa Rita Jail!
Let us know you’ll be there by sending us a text at (510) 686-3284.
Prisons and jails function to repress, warehouse and extract labor from primarily those of us who are Black or poor. We believe that solidarity is a weapon of resistance, and that we must respond to the basic needs of our community while also confronting state terror.
We do not positively engage with the racist pigs who work at the jail, as they are willing agents of the state that criminalizes, incarcerates and murders us.
OAKLAND EVENTS – Part of Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy
15. Monday, 8:30am – 9:30am, Baby Breakfast “Blockade” for #moms4housing
Oscar Grant Plaza 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Oakland
Come bring blankets, breakfast items and your babies for story and music time at Oscar Grant Plaza. Join us for a discussion on how to stay active in the movement with your young one in tow and how to support #moms4housing
This will Be before and in preparation for APTP reclaim MLK march
16. Monday, 9:00am – 11:00am, #reclaimMLK Young Activists Rally
Oscar Grant Plaza 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza Oakland
Come join us as we raise our powerful voices and reclaim the radical legacy of MLK. Come out with your whole family for stories, songs, chants, and mini lessons. This action is focused on young activist ages 2-10 and their adult allies.
We will be joining up with the main march starting at 12pm. The children’s contingent will be meeting towards the front of the march.
17. Monday, 12Noon – 4:00pm, 6th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy Rally and March
Gather at:
Oscar Grant Plaza 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza (nr. 12th Street BART) Oakland
On Monday, January 20, the Anti Police-Terror Project will lead a mass mobilization of people from across the Bay Area starting at Oakland’s Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, for the 6th Annual March and Rally to Reclaim King’s Radical Legacy.
Join APTP for the 6th annual Reclaim Kings Radical Legacy March. For six years running, the APTP Reclaim MLK event has been the only MLK March in the city of Oakland and is looked to by hundreds of Oaklanders as one of the premiere events of the year; bringing together people across race, class and political ideology with a commitment to build a just and equitable Oakland that Dr. King would be proud of.
The MLK march demands are:
Housing as a Human Right, Close the Camps, No School Closures, End Police Repression, Climate Justice, No More War.
For decades, MLK’s legacy has been whitewashed. Often portrayed as a passive figure, in truth he was a radical leader demanding rational change: an end to capitalism, to war, to empire, to poverty, and to white supremacy. Communities in Oakland and across the country take this opportunity every year to celebrate the true spirit of this revolutionary.
“January 2020 marks another 10 years of gentrification, displacement, and a worsening houselessness crisis. Another 10 years of the Bay Area’s elected leaders putting profits over people. Another 10 years of government for and by developers, tech companies, and banks – instead of for and by the People.” said Cat Brooks, former Oakland mayoral candidate and co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project.
Accessibility Information: Kid & family friendly! Snacks & water provided Porta potties available at beginning & end rallies, including 1 ADA porta potty at each location Scent-free zone will be created at beginning & end rallies, as well as supported during the march. *Please come to the march as scent-free as possible!* Seating available at beginning & end rallies ASL interpretation will likely be available – to be confirmed ASAP! Vehicle transport available during the march! Access vehicles will be following right behind the crowd. Currently no vehicle is able to transport someone in a wheelchair. Contact kdtertocha@gmail.com if you have such a vehicle to offer during the march! Medic team will be on site throughout the whole event!
A weekend of events leading up to Monday’s Rally and March include:
Wake Up Call: by SURJ Oakland/BayArea, Friday, 1/17/10, 7:30-9am, MacArthur BART Station Plaza
Oakland Climate Strike and Resilience Village, Friday, 1/17/20, 10am-1pm at Oscar Grant Plaza
Degentrifukation Tour of BlackArthur, Saturday, 1/18/20, 12pm, Poor Magazine, 8032 MacArthur Blvd
Alternatives to Policing: How Not to Call the Police, Sunday, 1/19/20, 2-5pm, First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St, Oakland
18. Monday, 9:00am – 11:00am, 2020 Caltrain NorcalMLK Celebration Train to SF
Location: starting at San Jose Diridon Station , stops at Palo Alto and San Mateo, then on to San Francisco’s Caltrain Station
Cost: FREE (tickets go fast)
Take the Caltrain NorcalMLK Celebration Train to the MLK2020 celebration events in San Francisco on Monday, January 20, and honor the life and legacy of Dr. King through exciting activities for all.
This free commemorative service is a program of the Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation, in partnership with Caltrain, and it signals the region’s dedication to continue the service begun by the late Coretta Scott King.
–San Jose’s Diridon Station at 9:45am (65 Cahill St., San Jose 95110)
–Palo Alto Station at 10:05am (95 University Ave., Palo Alto 94301)
–San Mateo Station at 10:25am (385 First Ave., San Mateo 94401)
Once at CalTrain SF, celebrants will be able to immediately take part in the MLK2020 March which begins at this station, or head directly to Yerba Buena Gardens to take part in a full day of festivities. For more information about the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, visit sfmlkday.org
Reserve your complimentary commemorative tickets for departure from one of the above stations today, and pick up your tickets at your point of departure on Monday, January 20, one hour before travel.
19. Monday, 9:30am – 12Noon, MLK 2020: Martin Luther King Jr. Annual March/Parade San Francisco
Begins at San Francisco Caltrain Station, 700 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94107, then march to Yerba Buena Gardens, between Third and Fourth, Mission and Folsom Streets
The 1.5 mile journey crosses the Lefty O’Doul Bridge and stops at Willie Mays Plaza at AT&T Park to commemorate the crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, a symbol of violence and victory in the civil rights movement. On arriving at Yerba Buena Gardens an interfaith commemoration will honor the legacy of Dr. King Jr.
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San Francisco Office Weekday Volunteers Hosted by Bernie Sanders for California Bernie 2020 San Francisco Office 2235 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94110 Help us at the San Francisco Office weekdays (Monday to Friday) from 12-2pm, or 2-4pm! Phonebank Volunteer Recruitment Calls Event Confirmation Calls Data Entry/Administrative Tasks Event Prep Various other tasks as needed Thank you so much for your support for Bernie! ADA accessible: Yes Show details
Phonebank at SF Campaign Office! San Francisco Campaign Office 2235 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94110 Weekly Tuesday-Friday! Come together at our San Francisco Campaign Office with your friends, family, and neighbors to call voters and ask them to join our historic campaign to defeat Trump and transform America! Please bring a laptop or tablet, your phone, and headphones to phonebank. ADA accessible: Yes Show details
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San Francisco International Day of Action: No War With Iran! Event Description Join CODEPINK and Arab Resource and Organizing Center, co-hosts ANSWER, et al. across the world as we demand peace with Iran. When and Where January 25, 2020 at 12pm – 1pm Market and Powell Street Market and Powell Street San Francisco, CA 94102 United States See Google map and directions › Contact David Patterson · dpatterson998@yahoo.com
Bernie 2020 Tabling in San Francisco Volunteer organized for Bernie Sanders for California 18th & Castro San Francisco, CA 94114 Come together with family, friends and neighbors to talk to voters in your community about the election. We’ll be asking folks to share what issues are important to them this election, and telling our stories of why we’re supporting Bernie in 2020. RSVP at events.berniesanders.com Weather permitting. Rain cancels.
Bernie 2020 Tabling in San Francisco Volunteer organized for Bernie Sanders for California 18th & Castro San Francisco, CA 94114 Come together with family, friends and neighbors to talk to voters in your community about the election. We’ll be asking folks to share what issues are important to them this election, and telling our stories of why we’re supporting Bernie in 2020. RSVP at events.berniesanders.com Weather permitting. Rain cancels.
San Francisco Office Weekday Volunteers Hosted by Bernie Sanders for California Bernie 2020 San Francisco Office 2235 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94110 Help us at the San Francisco Office weekdays (Monday to Friday) from 12-2pm, or 2-4pm! Phonebank Volunteer Recruitment Calls Event Confirmation Calls Data Entry/Administrative Tasks Event Prep Various other tasks as needed Thank you so much for your support for Bernie! ADA accessible: Yes Show details
