Let's take one day to talk primary elections as Tuesday---tomorrow is Maryland's primary. You could see the disappointment in Bernie's eyes when he came to the Baltimore Bernie rally in a city he openly stated was third world in every measure----and the stadium was not filled with citizens from those underserved communities----BECAUSE THEY DO KNOW ABOUT BERNIE OR SOCIAL DEMOCRACY.....THEY ARE WORKING FOR GRANTS FROM WALL STREET BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT POLS JUST TO HAVE TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT.....the very, very, very Wall Street Hopkins neo-conservative system of corporate socialism. So, Baltimore should have had thousands of black poor voters and instead we had lots of voters including voters of color----but they were almost exclusively people with a higher education and more politically informed.
This is where Ben Jealous as head of NAACP comes in ----his million dollar job requires he keep confusing black voters as to the opposite goals of Clinton/Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism---far-right economics----and not know a thing about social democracy. Who would be on a stage with Bernie in Baltimore? Cindy Walsh for Mayor of Baltimore---having felt the BERN for 40 years. Not one mention of me by a BERNIE campaign controlled by Ben Jealous. Even if the goal of black leadership was keeping a black Mayor of Baltimore---the last candidate one would want is PUGH----or Dixon or Stokes----and most black voters know this and yet---Jealous is SO DETERMINED TO GET PUGH ELECTED----and this brings me to Kwame Rose and his video endorsing guess who-----PUGH.
Below the Baltimore Sun announces the people backing Bernie Sanders and there are the Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal candidates for Mayor of Baltimore-----Calvin Young and Joshua Harris----no Cindy Walsh----and again we see Kwame Rose-----so in Baltimore all the energy around Bernie comes from the Baltimore Development 'justice' non-profits and the individuals highlighted the most are almost all coming out for PUGH.....if you follow Kwame Rose as a Black Lives Matter leader he is telling you to vote for PUGH. If you are a Baltimore United for Change---BUC---you are directed to forums and campaigns of only Baltimore Development establishment candidates. Remember, CHANGE----like Gov Larry Hogan's I WILL FIX BALTIMORE---by moving global corporate campuses and global factories to replace all surrounding communities----THAT IS CHANGE!
One Year Later - Impact Hub Baltimore Forum
Streamed live on Apr 20, 2016
With guest speakers: activist Kwame Rose, photographer Devin Allen, and Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
So Rose is the name tied most often to Bernie in Baltimore---mine never mentioned-----and Rose gives a heartfelt video endorsement of PUGH---Baltimore Development Corporations favorite because she has the drive to move Baltimore forward as that US International Economic Zone and pushed every public policy for over a decade to create the conditions in Baltimore to do that.
Keep in mind---Ben Jealous as national NAACP leader moving away from civil rights and social democracy and towards SHOW ME THE MONEY MAKING THE RICH RICHER NAACP with Wall Street Clinton global corporate neo-liberalism has been doing this dis-information in US cities with heavy black votership leading voters to Wall Street pols every election. They are determined to stop the left-leaning movement from coming to Baltimore----continuing the Wall Street global corporate socialism of patronage and no real local economy---only temporary stents of employment for those willing to pay-to-play.
Bernie Sanders endorsed by Maryland activists
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign stop.
(Matt Rourke / AP) April 7, 2016
John FritzeContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Aaron Maybin and Kwame Rose among social justice advocates backing Sanders.
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced support Thursday from several civil rights advocates in Baltimore, including Aaron Maybin and Kwame Rose.
Maybin is a former NFL linebacker and founder of Project Mayhem. Rose is a prominent Baltimore activist who has been involved in the protests following the death of Freddie Gray last year.
In the midst of a race dominated by divisive antics, and candidates appealing to their self-interests in lieu of what's best for the American people, sincerity and honesty are the cornerstones of Sen. Sanders' historic candidacy," the activists wrote in an internet posting.
"As criminal justice reformers, we stand with Sen. Sanders because he’s fervently committed to ending mass incarceration and increasing equity in the justice system, reflected in his more than three decades of standing at the forefront of inequality and his courage to hold violators of justice accountable," they wrote.
Sanders is the only presidential candidate -- aside from former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley -- who has visited West Baltimore as part of the campaign. Sanders toured Sandtown-Winchester in December. Old Line State voters will head to the polls on April 26.
Hillary Clinton to campaign in Maryland on Sunday Other Maryland advocates backing Sanders include: Anthony Johnson, Calvin Young, ShaiVaugh Crawley, James Williams, Donna Brown, Joshua Harris, Megan Kenny, Keanuu Smith-Brown, Chris Wilson, Dejuan Patterson and Rashad Staton.
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Below you see the interweaving of Baltimore Development Corporation and its 'justice' non-profits and the 15 black ministers tied to Wall Street Baltimore Development who always tell black voters to vote for these same establishment candidates every election-----Carter Memorial Church thrilled to greet Bill Clinton in Baltimore with Kwame Rose right in the mix-----
So, you see Kwame Rose with Bernie----endorsing PUGH-----who is a raging Clinton Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal----this is why poor black citizens who get absolutely no information on political policy keep being brought out by Baltimore Development 'justice' groups to vote for the Wall Street candidates. Make citizens as justice leaders and then have them all tied to Clinton/Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism.
For those not knowing South Africa under Zuma has become the worst of neo-liberal International Economic Zone abuse of black citizens in global sweat shop factories and police brutality---some say worse than white apartheid----it is bad. Black leaders being allowed wealth and power here in our US cities are tying themselves to this move by Clinton/Obama to bring Asian International Economic Zones to other African nations enslaving Africans as Asian citizens were these decades. No doubt US black leaders envision themselves as the ones getting rich from all this. People are free to make whatever decision in these regards they want---the problem is these few decades of deliberate deceit by these Clinton/Obama Wall Street players that have killed 90% of black citizens and are killing all citizens in the working and middle-class. RUN AS REPUBLICANS IF YOU WANT TO PRESS FAR-RIGHT PUBLIC POLICY !
Larry Cohen added 5 new photos — with ShaiVaughn Crawley and 6 others at
Carter Memorial Church of Baltimore-COGIC.
The panel discussion on black youth in Sowebo was heartwarming in it's love & authenticity. The initial disbelief of Bernie internalizing the number of heroin addicts in Bmore was fascinating in how he knows that the extreme doesn't need to be. I wish others could have been there. He was everything I knew he was. I'm hopeful, as he is, that there can be change if we will it, but I'm also saddened by so many people who are voting without hope, belief, & love in their hearts. Also, proud of Kwame Rose for rising to the occasion.
Carter Memorial Church of Baltimore-COGIC
21 hrs · Currently on #Pstreet! Mr. President Bill Clinton.
Here comes Bill-----Baltimore has a hundreds of black churches many not wanting what Wall Street Baltimore Development is pushing but Bill and Hillary have created their own religious campaigners-----like the wall of pastors hanging at Plank's Cove Point UnderArmour campus----not too many follow this but this is from where getting the poor to the voting polls eminates----so we have poor that do not vote and poor being brought by Wall Street Baltimore Development 'justice' groups to the polls telling them to vote for PUGH and HILLARY.
You can believe this is why Hillary won across the south----and Maryland is a southern state----citizens here in Baltimore understand all this cronyism but I want my friends across the nation to understand why a candidate who really wants to do good for civil rights and liberties cannot get the votes today---the rigging of primary elections is strong---BUT NOT SO STRONG AS TO BE REVERSED---AND WE WILL DO THIS.
Bill Clinton visits Baltimore churches
Caption Bill Clinton
Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun April 24, 2016
Former president Bill Clinton speaks to the congregation of Southern Baptist Church to campaign for his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
Caption Bill Clinton
Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore SunFormer President Bill Clinton visited Southern Baptist Church and two other Baltimore churches to campaign for his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
President Bill Clinton, touring to campaign for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, visits three Baltimore churches Sunday.
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Cummings was the original Clinton Wall Street neo-liberal back in the 1990s breaking the banking wall Glass Steagall to create these few decades of massive and systemic fraud of our government coffers and people's personal wealth-----he and Pugh are the pols of the district Freddie Gray lived and are the faces of the third world conditions---deep poverty, militarized policing that led to the riots. So, Kwame Rose somehow goes viral in media with stars tweeting him for yelling at a reporter which happened all throughout the protests----becomes a 'leader' in Black Lives Matter from hundreds of black citizens who took to the streets-----Kwame backs Bernie controlling the Bernie movement in Baltimore and then very publicly endorses PUGH-----who all knew would promote Clinton.
Keep in mind----EVERYONE in Baltimore knows the fix is in and crony politics captures the city for decades----but they are going to SHAKE IT UP IN 2016!
Congressman Elijah Cummings endorses Senator Catherine Pugh for Mayor
WMAR Staff
5:54 PM, Apr 12, 2016
6:27 AM, Apr 13, 2016
Congressman Cummings endorses Senator Catherine Pugh for mayor of Baltimore
WMAR
After endorsing Hillary Clinton during her trip to Maryland over the weekend, congressman Elijah Cummings has made an endorsement in Baltimore's mayoral race.
He's endorsed senator Catherine Pugh.
Cummings says Pugh has passed a lot of meaningful legislation during her time as Senate Majority Leader and since she has already made such a difference across the state, she would make a great leader for Baltimore.
"She's experienced. She's prepared. She's knowledgeable. And she's smart. And most of all, she knows how to get things done," Cummings said. "That to me is so important. We can talk, talk, talk, but the question is when all the dust settles, have you gotten things done? Have you made something? Have you made somebody's life better?"
Cummings also mentioned Pugh's ability to take the lead on three key issues plaguing Baltimore City - finding jobs for young people, education and public safety.
"Catherine has even developed a plan to equip buses, which she calls mobile employment centers, to go into under-served neighborhoods and have employment experts match up people and their skills with existing available jobs," he said. "That's visionary. And that's leadership."
The congressman discussed innovations Pugh introduced like the new Baltimore Design School and how she's looking to reduce the number of property crimes in the city.
Pugh was leading the race according the most recent poll numbers, but former mayor Sheila Dixon was only a few points behind her.
Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Bernie Sanders called Freddie Gray's community third world---the worst in the city was PUGH's and Cumming's district----FREDDIE GRAY'S COMMUNITY and it is. Pugh was the Baltimore City Council and Maryland Assembly pols passing all the laws sending all funds downtown to global corporate campus Enterprise Zones and not community enterprise zones. She is the one watching one Wall Street fraud after another target these communities---she is the one deregulating----dismantling oversight and accountability----tying global corporations in 'partnerships' to our city agencies including global VEOLA TRANSPORTATION and VEOLA WATER----the privatization of our public water and transit----all things hitting her constituents hardest. Yet, this is who Kwame Rose sentimentally endorsed for mayor----as he stood on the podium with Bernie as a Black Lives Matter media leader.
WE CAN AND WILL FIX THIS-----FASCISM IS STRONG WHEN NO ONE KNOWS WHO IS ZOOMING WHOM? THAT IS WHAT HAS BALTIMORE CAPTURED---AND IT IS FAR-RIGHT CORPORATE SOCIALISM.
Bill Clinton in Baltimore
Colin Campbell / Baltimore Sun
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Black Lives Matter would of course not be linked to Clinton-----through PUGH----
This article leaves out two major issues----first, Bernie voted for a first version of a crime bill that ended up looking very different when it came around for the second vote----the second vote he voted NO. Second, Bill Clinton likes to allude to creating jobs during his terms but as we all know this was the beginning of the BUBBLE AS ECONOMY POLICY---this was the Tech Bubble that crashed to a recession as soon as he left office. What everyone needs to remember is Clinton policies from NAFTA to global markets brought devastation to our cities and labor ---stagnant economies and high unemployment---so look beyond the immediate time in office.
Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Showdown With Black Lives Matter Protesters
By AMY CHOZICKAPRIL 8, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton had a heated exchange with a protester during a rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Philadelphia. Credit Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that he regretted drowning out the chants of black protesters at a rally in Philadelphia the day before, when he issued an aggressive defense of his administration’s impact on black families. His reaction thrust a debate about the 1990s into the center of his wife’s presidential campaign, one that has focused heavily on issues of race and criminal justice.
“I know those young people yesterday were just trying to get good television,” Mr. Clinton said Friday of the Black Lives Matter protesters who had accused him and Hillary Clinton of supporting policies that devastated black communities. “But that doesn’t mean that I was most effective in answering it.”
His statement did not quiet a raging storm of criticism. Still, it was a remarkable reversal for Mr. Clinton, who occupies a singular role in his wife’s campaign as a spouse and a popular former president who can sometimes make himself into a lightning rod. He has had to campaign for his wife in an era when signature policies of his administration have been repudiated both by Mrs. Clinton and her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
None of those issues has been more central to the 2016 campaign than the 1994 crime bill, which created tougher penalties for nonviolent drug offenders, erected dozens of new prisons, banned certain types of assault weapons and sent 100,000 more police officers to American cities.
Today, Black Lives Matter protesters have pointed to the effects of that legislation as contributing to the high rates of incarceration of black men and the current tensions between police officers and black communities.
Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders supported the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and have had to answer to Black Lives Matter protesters at their events. Both candidates will face tough questions on racial issues next week at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network annual convention, less than a week before the April 19 New York primary.
“I was painting crack houses saying, ‘Why isn’t anyone doing anything about it,’” Mr. Sharpton recalled of the 1990s. “But when that bill came out, we panicked because we felt it would go too far.”
At a convention of the N.A.A.C.P. last July, Mr. Clinton even conceded that the law he championed sent low-level criminals to prison “for way too long” and “made the problem worse.”
But on Thursday, when confronted with protesters over the issue, the former president refused to silently listen as a signature policy of his presidency was trampled upon.
“I don’t know how you would characterize gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out on the street to murder other African-American children,” an animated Mr. Clinton said, waving a finger. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t,” he said of Mrs. Clinton.
The video and accounts of his remarks ignited a fierce backlash and came as Mrs. Clinton seeks to solidify the support of black voters, who have voted for her overwhelmingly in primary contests across the South and Midwest.
In her current campaign, Mrs. Clinton has been a fierce advocate of overhauling the criminal justice system, often campaigning alongside the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland and others who have lost children to gun violence or clashes with the police.
Last April, as protests were consuming Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., after the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, Mrs. Clinton devoted her first major policy speech to overturning key parts of the bill. “It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration,” she said.
Hillary Clinton being introduced by the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood on Sunday at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
On Sunday, she addressed three black churches in Brooklyn alongside Nicole Bell, the fiancée of Sean Bell, who was killed in a police shooting the morning of their wedding in 2006.
In both of Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaigns, Mr. Clinton has proved both her best asset and an occasional liability. He remains widely popular and Mrs. Clinton often talks about his economic achievements. “When he was president, 23 million new jobs, incomes went up for everybody, not just folks at the top,” she said on Sunday.
But other parts of Mr. Clinton’s record, including his support for global trade deals, deficit reduction and deregulation of Wall Street, have haunted Mrs. Clinton, as she confronts a challenge from the left.
And Mr. Clinton has, at times, been an unpredictable and disruptive presence on the campaign trail. He infuriated blacks in 2008 when, after Senator Barack Obama appeared poised for a landslide victory in South Carolina, Mr. Clinton reminded the news media that Jesse Jackson had won the state’s Democratic primary twice. He also called Mr. Obama’s position against the Iraq war “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”
This time, Mr. Clinton has a close relationship with Mrs. Clinton’s senior campaign aides and has mostly remained dutifully on message, but the incident on Thursday served as a reminder that he remains a volatile force.
His clash with black protesters on Thursday also underscored the drastically different political landscape Mrs. Clinton faces from the centrist wave that swept her husband to power.
When Mr. Clinton ran for president in 1992, crack cocaine was ravaging American cities and the Willie Horton ad that the elder George Bush had used in 1988 to portray Michael Dukakis as soft on crime had wounded the Democratic Party.
“You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter,” Mr. Clinton said Thursday to protesters who held up signs that read “Clinton Crime Bill Destroyed Our Communities” and “Black Youth Are Not Super Predators,” a reference to a term used by Mrs. Clinton in 1996 to describe gang members and which she has said she regretted using.
“Tell the truth,” Mr. Clinton told them.
His reaction prompted wide criticism online. “Bill Clinton Reached Peak White Mansplain in a Face-Off Against Black Lives Matter Protesters,” read a headline in Jezebel. Salon called his response “cringe worthy.”
“He just did to an entire generation what he did to Sister Souljah a generation ago,” Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P. who is supporting Mr. Sanders, said in an interview, referring to Mr. Clinton’s forceful rebuttal of the activist and rapper in 1992 for remarks he deemed hateful.
By Friday, Mr. Clinton said, “I almost want to apologize.”
But Clinton allies said he should be putting into context his record and the landscape he confronted at the time.
In 1993, violent crime had more than tripled in the previous three decades and law enforcement had not caught up. By the time Mr. Clinton left office, crime had dropped to a 25-year low and the homicide rate had declined by more than 40 percent, according to F.B.I. data. Median family income for African-Americans increased by 33 percent in the Clinton years, according to census data, a statistic he often cites when facing criticism of the 1996 overhaul of the welfare system.
Representative James E. Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, voted for the 1994 crime bill. “There’s no question one of the biggest issues confronting the country at that time was the whole phenomenon of crack cocaine, which had precipitated tremendous anxiety through the African-American community,” Mr. Clyburn, who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said in an interview.
But others say that the crime bill and the welfare overhaul, which cut federal spending on assistance for the poor by nearly $55 billion over six years, were done for political expediency at a time when the Democratic Party had lost five out of the last seven presidential campaigns and had to shift to the center to survive.
“What Clinton did well was to stop the erosion of a certain class of Democratic voters who were fleeing to the Republicans,” said Nicholas Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice. “You can’t think about crime policy in this country at that time without thinking about the politics of it.”
As for Mr. Clinton’s defense of the crime bill, Mr. Turner said, “I think the correct answer was simply, ‘I was wrong.’”
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Bernie Sanders called Freddie Gray's community third world---the worst in the city was PUGH's and Cumming's district----FREDDIE GRAY'S COMMUNITY and it is. Pugh was the Baltimore City Council and Maryland Assembly pols passing all the laws sending all funds downtown to global corporate campus Enterprise Zones and not community enterprise zones. She is the one watching one Wall Street fraud after another target these communities---she is the one deregulating----dismantling oversight and accountability----tying global corporations in 'partnerships' to our city agencies including global VEOLA TRANSPORTATION and VEOLA WATER----the privatization of our public water and transit----all things hitting her constituents hardest. Yet, this is who Kwame Rose sentimentally endorsed for mayor----as he stood on the podium with Bernie as a Black Lives Matter media leader.
WE CAN AND WILL FIX THIS-----FASCISM IS STRONG WHEN NO ONE KNOWS WHO IS ZOOMING WHOM? THAT IS WHAT HAS BALTIMORE CAPTURED---AND IT IS FAR-RIGHT CORPORATE SOCIALISM.
Bill Clinton in Baltimore
There is a tie between black US leaders and African expansion of Clinton Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism and as we see here-----black South Africans have been trying to get rid of Zuma for years. Wall Street Clinton neo-liberals have their NGOs and 'justice' non-profits in South Africa doing there what they do in US cities like Baltimore. Calm the riots and protests with temporary fixes as they continue to build the very, very, very far-right global corporate campus and global factory SOCIALISM. South Africa under Zuma has the same police brutality because International Economic Zones use militarized policing AS IN BALTIMORE---probably the same global policing and security training corporation.
White US citizens who think this is not about them---who may not care that people of color will be hit first hardest-----need to
WAKE UP-----GLOBAL CORPORATIONS SEE HUMAN CAPITAL NO MATTER THE RACE, SEX, OR CREED.
US black leaders are going to ZUMA's aid in quelling citizen protest as they are doing in the US cities----remember, a small percentage of US citizens from ALL population groups are recruited to do this---this is simply how it is working in the black communities. Brown, white communities all have the same 5% of citizens as Wall Street players posing progressive. Where will that 5% be after this coming crash and installing US International Economic Zones by flooding Baltimore with immigrants from around the world---especially the administrators? They will be under the bus with those 'losers' as Wall Street likes to call good people following the rules.
ZUMA MUST GO! CORRUPTION AND NEO-LIBERALISM MUST GIVE WAY!
UNITED FRONT PRESS STATEMENT
10 February 2016
If President Zuma respected the people and Constitution of this country, he would use tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address to resign. As confirmed yet again by yesterday’s Constitutional Court hearing on the so-called “Nkandla security renovations”, he has repeatedly breached his obligation to the law and the Constitution. The United Front is extremely angry that President Zuma, the Minister of Safety and Security Nathi Nhleko and the National Assembly had the audacity to abuse their power and positions to defend and protect Zuma’s undue benefits from public expenditure on the so-called “Nkandla security renovations”. The UF condemns Zuma, Nhleko and the National Assembly for flagrantly breaching the law in order to defend Zuma’s ill-gotten wealth. This is willful lawlessness on the part of the President, the Cabinet and the National assembly.
As yesterday’s extraordinary Constitutional Court hearing heard, the President and the National Assembly now finally admit and accept the Constitution’s directive that the Public Protector’s findings are binding unless taken on judicial review, and that President Zuma had no legal right to ask the Minister Nhleko to determine whether he owed anything for the Nkandla renovations. For its part, the National Assembly violated the Constitution in its failure to hold President Zuma accountable on the Nkandla renovations.
All this confirms that Zuma must go.
He is simply unfit to be our President.
Zuma has not only unduly benefitted from public expenditure or undermined democratic checks and balances. He has also presided over the most naked and unashamed looting of state coffers by tenderpreneurs directly linked to him. His presidency has also seen the continuation of anti-poor and anti-worker neo-liberal economic policies that continue to produce unemployment and tie our economy to the interests and power of financial oligarchs. Indeed, Zuma and the ANC government must fall because they have spectacularly failed to provide for the people of the country and have mortgaged our future to the imperialist speculators, financial institutions and investment bankers and their funds.
To this end, the United Front calls on mass movements, trade unions, progressive churches and other religious bodies, youth, students, women, landless people and other progressive forces across the country to unite behind the call for Zuma to go. This must be part of a broader effort to mobilise for, and win democratic political reforms, end neo-liberal policies and win alternative economic policies that create sustainable jobs and transform the economy.
The president of the country must be directly elected by the people, Cabinet ministers must be elected by parliament, Parliament must be elected by a majority constituency based system and voters must have the right to recall their elected public representatives. These changes will put the power to elect a President, the most important single position in the country, directly into the hands of the people. The president, regardless of, until now exclusively “his”, dominance over the political party will not matter as he would be directly accountable to the populace. It would also ensure that Members of Parliament would be directly accountable to and subject to recall by the people from the area that voted the MP into parliament. In addition to appointing Ministers, MPs would be directly accountable for voting for or against economic interests of the specific community that elected them.
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A 'justice' march through the third world district with the incumbent pols having made that district third world the day before the Democratic primary election all planned to promote these candidates. All of this happening as Baltimore citizens are heading to primary polls with PUGH and Dixon----two top Wall Street Baltimore Development candidates being highlighted as feeling the pain of these crumbling communities.
---'The two front-runners for mayor, Catherine E. Pugh and Sheila Dixon, each arrived with an entourage, causing a rush of TV cameras. Red-shirted Dixon volunteers seemed to be everywhere'.
Politicsby Fern Shen8:00 amApr 25, 2016
A policeman, a pastor and a publicist script a unity march in West Baltimore
The imagery at a Freddie Gray commemoration march is carefully controlled on the eve of the Baltimore primary
Above: Mayoral candidates Catherine Pugh and Sheila Dixon stand on either side of Pastor Jamal Bryant at yesterday’s march. (Louie Krauss)
A year ago – carrying homemade signs and with faces raw with emotion – people poured into the streets of West Baltimore for what felt like spontaneous protests over the fatal arrest of one of their own.
Yesterday the crowd that assembled for a “Unity March” in remembrance of Freddie Gray appeared to be organized by a top-ranking police official, a megachurch pastor and a publicist from Bowie carrying a leopard print handbag.
“Young ladies can you move over there? If you’re not media, would you move over there?” Lt. Col. Melvin Russell told a group of young women in the midst of a scrum of reporters, political candidates, campaign handlers and onlookers.
Russell explained that Pastor Jamal H. Bryant, organizer of the event, wanted young people prominently displayed at the media staging spot at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues.
Lt. Col. Melvin Russell directs the crowd at Sunday’s Unity March at Penn-North. (Louie Krauss)
“Jamal wants everybody behind him. They want you guys on cameras so we can get started. Nobody’s going to see you if you’re back here,” Russell told them, eliciting some arched eyebrows.
“Hey, I’m just relaying a message from the pastor,” Russell said with a shrug.
“All of you who are over 18 and potty-trained, head over there,” another organizer said.
Actors and Politicians
Held on the weekend before both the 2016 mayoral primary election and the anniversary of the Freddie Gray protests and riot, the march mingled many agendas and brought out a bevy of big names from Baltimore and beyond.
Empowerment Temple publicist Nicole Kirby directs marchers with the flourish of a symphony conductor. (Louie Krauss)
“The Wire” actress and activist Sonja Sohn was there, a film crew tagging behind her. So was former NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous.
The two front-runners for mayor, Catherine E. Pugh and Sheila Dixon, each arrived with an entourage, causing a rush of TV cameras. Red-shirted Dixon volunteers seemed to be everywhere.
Buttonholing Pugh, Sandtown resident Leona Berry-Bova told her that people need help with basic education and skills. “People up in here need to learn to read and write or they’re never going to get anywhere,” Berry-Bova said.
“I developed a lot of programs around literacy. Let’s talk about that some time,” Pugh told her, turning away as actor Danny Glover appeared on the scene.
Berry-Bova told a reporter that she is a Dixon fan, but wanted to give Pugh a chance. “I been with Ms. Dixon from the age of 14 and I’m 44 now,” Berry-Bova said. “I’m living in one of the houses she gave me and my sister.”
Actor Danny Glover addresses the crowd at Penn-North. (Louie Krauss)
Other mayoral candidates were spotted as well, mostly on the fringes of the crowd. Among them Democratic mayoral candidates Carl Stokes and Patrick Gutierrez and Green Party candidate Joshua Harris with a dog on a leash.
“This is not a march against anything. It is a march for unity, it is a march for peace,” Pastor Bryant told the crowd.
Glover also addressed the crowd, at one point offering the Martin Luther King quote, “Peace is not simply the absence of tension, but the presence of justice.” He was standing in front of the CVS drugstore that had been looted and set ablaze during the April 27, 2015 civil unrest and has since been rebuilt.
Pumped up by a Publicist
Eventually, it was time for the march to start. Taking charge was Nicole Kirby, the publicist at Bryant’s Empowerment Temple in Northwest Baltimore.
She positioned Pugh and Dixon on either side of Pastor Bryant, and the phalanx of VIPs began moving forward.
Adroitly, she stopped their advance so that the gaggle of photographers could get footage and photos. It was as if someone had hit the “pause” button. After weeks of rancorous campaigning against each other, Pugh and Dixon stood uneasily nearly side-by-side as their images were captured.
Along the march route, Malik Creighton, 6, leaps into the arms of his brother Brian Rice, 14. (Louie Krauss)
Then Kirby commenced the march. She positioned herself at the front of the line where the young people had been assembled. She led them in the chant (“One Baltimore! One vision!”) and demonstrated the excitement she wanted them to show, shooting her fist in the air and po-going up and down at one point.
Motorcycle-mounted police led the crowd of several hundred people along West North Avenue toward their eventual destination – Bryant’s “Freddie Gray Empowerment Center” on Eutaw Place, a resource for young people.
Burning stick uplifted, a masked woman walks down North Avenue as part of yesterday’s “Unity March” in remembrance of Freddie Gray. (Louie Krauss)
Walking along in the crowd – and running at one point to get to the front – was U.S. Senate candidate Chris Van Hollen.
Also weaving through the crowd was an aroma that many assumed to be marijuana.
The source? A young woman who eventually donned an “Anonymous” mask she was carrying. Whether it was a blunt the size of a polish sausage, or simply a smudge stick, she was waving it around as if it were ceremonial incense.
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If you know that Empowerment Temple is a chain mega-church found in US cities tied often to being US International Economic Zones----and always seem to be the ones playing with the Wall Street Development Corporations in those cities----you see the capture for black citizens and voters. This is the Clinton capture of black churches----in Baltimore, Jamal Bryant's church is central to what will become the most wealthy city center community along Eutaw Street---so he knows none of the folks in those communities will be there in a decade. Below you see a PUBLICIST for Empowerment Temple taking photos of the most Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal candidates for Mayor of Baltimore walking for Freddie Gray. This publicist is from Prince George's County----Maryland's second US International Economic Zone with the same conditions and same global corporate campus/global factory goals. I liked how someone pointed to this publicist's LEOPARD-SKIN HANDBAG.
Remember, Jamal Bryant is the feeling the BERN member surrounded by the most Clinton of Wall Street neo-liberals in this Mayoral race.
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'Pumped up by a Publicist
Eventually, it was time for the march to start. Taking charge was Nicole Kirby, the publicist at Bryant’s Empowerment Temple in Northwest Baltimore.
She positioned Pugh and Dixon on either side of Pastor Bryant, and the phalanx of VIPs began moving forward'.
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'What are White Collar Sweatshops'?
US citizens are so tied to the long history of first world nation and having personal wealth they are not thinking these US International Economic Zones are going to take them to third world labor standards---they may not be toiling in global factory sweat shops---but they will and are now toiling. Developing nations have professional employees paid third world wages---what in the US is far below current minimum wage. That is why developing nation professional are trying hard to be part of our US International Economic Zones----more money by their standards---
A global UnderArmour campus will have white collar jobs as well as global factories and both will be SWEATSHOP LABOR---white collar US workers WILL work as they do overseas---professional or not. Very, very few people move up this economic ladder because you are competing with everyone in the world---global workforce willing to work for next to nothing to have a job.
Citizens in US International Economic Zone cities like BAltimore need to WAKE UP----those jobs brought for high-skilled workers will pay third world wages. They may be a step up from global factory workers in having better work environments---but they will be SWEAT SHOP WORKERS.
Those foreign high-skilled workers being brought to the US as cheaper labor for global corporations like Google and Apple will, if Trans Pacific Trade Pact is installed---then be working as if they were still in China or India taking US workers with them.
What are White Collar Sweatshops?
White collar sweatshops are characterized as high-stress environments that overwork employees and offer no job security.
The banking, communications and technology industries are considered to have jobs that are part of "white collar sweatshops."
White collar sweatshops received their name from the low paid, work-intensive environment of sweatshops.
Corporate buyouts and hostile takeovers often contribute to overwork in white collar jobs.
White collar sweatshops are office jobs that feature overwork, underpay, too much stress, and not enough security for their workers. They are based on the combined idea of the anxiety, rigor, and job cuts of blue collar jobs, and the frantic work days and low pay of sweatshops. The term was popularized by Jill Andresky Fraser in her 2001 book White Collar Sweatshops: The Deterioration of Work and its Rewards in Corporate America.
Andresky shows that shrinking benefits packages, hostile takeovers, mergers, contingency workers, corporate buyouts, longer work days, and cost cutting all contributed to the emergence of an overworked workforce. She cites Citigroup, Disney, and IBM as examples of white collar sweatshops, and blames many federal regulatory changes for these transformations among the upper working class at many places.
With the rise of competitive big-money corporations has come an increase in competition over jobs and salary. This has led to an increased workload by employees unsure of their job security. Not knowing where their future within a corporation may lie, white collar sweat shop workers find themselves pulling longer days, more weekends, and harder shifts. They reduce break times, increase productivity, and continue working from laptops well after shifts are over.
This competitive increase of work-related duties, coupled with a decrease of free time, sleep, or family time, leads to a high stress level at white collar sweatshops. This stress takes its toll on mental and physical health, making the increased duties even more difficult to carry out for many employees. According to the author, more Americans are working between 49 and 60 hours per week than ever before, and the rise of beepers, cell phones, and laptops has increased the anxiety of the work day more than ever before.
The banking, communications, and high technology industries are especially susceptible to white collar sweatshops. Industries such as these often feature high turnover, and stress-inducing ratings, rankings, and statistics. The economic boom of the 1990s, according to the author, skipped the white collar employees that run these industries, and went straight to the top of the companies. Perks and bonuses were sacrificed by the white collar sweatshops worker, while stalemated salaries and entry-level wages became the norm.
Fraser, a financial reporter, blamed the emergence of white collar sweatshops on 24-on-call weeks, shrinking pension plans, and the ability of a boss to access an employee anytime through e-mail. She cites employee-unfriendly situations and bosses at Intel, and says that the culture of the white collar job has changed unalterably in an age of big money and big business. The change has led to the white collar sweatshops and the stress, risks, and insecurity that accompanies them.
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You can really tell Bernie cares and wants a left-leaning social Democratic Revolution----his rhetoric is strong and revolutionary---he shouts TRUTH TO POWER and does not mince words about it----the Clinton controlled DNC sent a message to Bernie to tone it down as they are sure Hillary is going to win and feels it will be hard for Bernie to back Hillary with that kind of language.
No one knows motives----I feel he ran as a Democrat knowing third parties would get NO media or event exposure---and they do not----and in signing on as a Democrat had to work with the DNC----ergo, he had to make a commitment to back Hillary if he lost. I don't see him losing---and I do not see him actively engaged in campaigning for Hillary. He will say Trump must be stopped---but Trump and Hillary are the same far-right, autocratic, global wealth and corporate power candidates---Hillary would be Trump. The only worry for the 1% in Trump is the international stage.
Sanders at Baltimore Rally Draws Contrasts with Clinton
April 23, 2016
BALTIMORE – More than 6,600 supporters cheered U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday as he continued to draw distinctions with rival Hillary Clinton ahead of next Tuesday’s round of presidential primary contests in five Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.
Maryland Democrats go to the polls on Tuesday along with voters in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Sanders was headed to rallies in Delaware later Saturday and in Rhode Island on Sunday.
“All of you are enormously powerful people if you choose to exercise that right,” Sanders told the rally at Royal Farms Arena. “Our job is to tell the establishment that the status quo is not acceptable.”
All of you are enormously powerful people if you choose to exercise that right. Our job is to tell the establishment that the status quo is not acceptable.- Sen. SandersHe spelled out clear differences between his record and Clinton’s on campaign funding, foreign policy and war, the minimum wage, Wall Street reform, climate change, college affordability, retirement security and other critical issues.
Sanders contrasted his grassroots campaign, which is supported by more than 7 million donations averaging about $27 apiece, to Hillary Clinton’s campaign bankrolled by high-dollar donors to her White House campaign and to her super PACs, which have taken more than $25 million from Wall Street and other special interests.
Sanders was introduced by the civil rights activist and actor Danny Glover and by Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the NAACP.
In an interview taped earlier Saturday for the NBC News program “Meet the Press,” Sanders was asked about his differences and similarities with Clinton.
“I think there is a lot that unites us. I think there is a lot that divides us. I think the fact that all of us are in agreement that Donald Trump would be a disaster for this country if he became president unites us. The fact that we understand, for example, that climate change is real while our Republican opponents ignore that reality unites us,” Sanders told Chuck Todd.
“On the other hand, I think what divides us is the understanding on the part of millions of people who are supporting my candidacy that it really is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We have to deal in very substantive way with income and wealth inequality. We need to understand that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, not to provide paid family and medical leave. We have to deal aggressively with a corrupt campaign finance system which allows big- money interests to buy elections. Those are areas I think of difference,” Sanders said.
The full interview airs Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
This is where Ben Jealous as head of NAACP comes in ----his million dollar job requires he keep confusing black voters as to the opposite goals of Clinton/Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism---far-right economics----and not know a thing about social democracy. Who would be on a stage with Bernie in Baltimore? Cindy Walsh for Mayor of Baltimore---having felt the BERN for 40 years. Not one mention of me by a BERNIE campaign controlled by Ben Jealous. Even if the goal of black leadership was keeping a black Mayor of Baltimore---the last candidate one would want is PUGH----or Dixon or Stokes----and most black voters know this and yet---Jealous is SO DETERMINED TO GET PUGH ELECTED----and this brings me to Kwame Rose and his video endorsing guess who-----PUGH.
Below the Baltimore Sun announces the people backing Bernie Sanders and there are the Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal candidates for Mayor of Baltimore-----Calvin Young and Joshua Harris----no Cindy Walsh----and again we see Kwame Rose-----so in Baltimore all the energy around Bernie comes from the Baltimore Development 'justice' non-profits and the individuals highlighted the most are almost all coming out for PUGH.....if you follow Kwame Rose as a Black Lives Matter leader he is telling you to vote for PUGH. If you are a Baltimore United for Change---BUC---you are directed to forums and campaigns of only Baltimore Development establishment candidates. Remember, CHANGE----like Gov Larry Hogan's I WILL FIX BALTIMORE---by moving global corporate campuses and global factories to replace all surrounding communities----THAT IS CHANGE!
One Year Later - Impact Hub Baltimore Forum
Streamed live on Apr 20, 2016
With guest speakers: activist Kwame Rose, photographer Devin Allen, and Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
So Rose is the name tied most often to Bernie in Baltimore---mine never mentioned-----and Rose gives a heartfelt video endorsement of PUGH---Baltimore Development Corporations favorite because she has the drive to move Baltimore forward as that US International Economic Zone and pushed every public policy for over a decade to create the conditions in Baltimore to do that.
Keep in mind---Ben Jealous as national NAACP leader moving away from civil rights and social democracy and towards SHOW ME THE MONEY MAKING THE RICH RICHER NAACP with Wall Street Clinton global corporate neo-liberalism has been doing this dis-information in US cities with heavy black votership leading voters to Wall Street pols every election. They are determined to stop the left-leaning movement from coming to Baltimore----continuing the Wall Street global corporate socialism of patronage and no real local economy---only temporary stents of employment for those willing to pay-to-play.
Bernie Sanders endorsed by Maryland activists
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign stop.
(Matt Rourke / AP) April 7, 2016
John FritzeContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun
Aaron Maybin and Kwame Rose among social justice advocates backing Sanders.
Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced support Thursday from several civil rights advocates in Baltimore, including Aaron Maybin and Kwame Rose.
Maybin is a former NFL linebacker and founder of Project Mayhem. Rose is a prominent Baltimore activist who has been involved in the protests following the death of Freddie Gray last year.
In the midst of a race dominated by divisive antics, and candidates appealing to their self-interests in lieu of what's best for the American people, sincerity and honesty are the cornerstones of Sen. Sanders' historic candidacy," the activists wrote in an internet posting.
"As criminal justice reformers, we stand with Sen. Sanders because he’s fervently committed to ending mass incarceration and increasing equity in the justice system, reflected in his more than three decades of standing at the forefront of inequality and his courage to hold violators of justice accountable," they wrote.
Sanders is the only presidential candidate -- aside from former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley -- who has visited West Baltimore as part of the campaign. Sanders toured Sandtown-Winchester in December. Old Line State voters will head to the polls on April 26.
Hillary Clinton to campaign in Maryland on Sunday Other Maryland advocates backing Sanders include: Anthony Johnson, Calvin Young, ShaiVaugh Crawley, James Williams, Donna Brown, Joshua Harris, Megan Kenny, Keanuu Smith-Brown, Chris Wilson, Dejuan Patterson and Rashad Staton.
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Below you see the interweaving of Baltimore Development Corporation and its 'justice' non-profits and the 15 black ministers tied to Wall Street Baltimore Development who always tell black voters to vote for these same establishment candidates every election-----Carter Memorial Church thrilled to greet Bill Clinton in Baltimore with Kwame Rose right in the mix-----
So, you see Kwame Rose with Bernie----endorsing PUGH-----who is a raging Clinton Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal----this is why poor black citizens who get absolutely no information on political policy keep being brought out by Baltimore Development 'justice' groups to vote for the Wall Street candidates. Make citizens as justice leaders and then have them all tied to Clinton/Obama Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism.
For those not knowing South Africa under Zuma has become the worst of neo-liberal International Economic Zone abuse of black citizens in global sweat shop factories and police brutality---some say worse than white apartheid----it is bad. Black leaders being allowed wealth and power here in our US cities are tying themselves to this move by Clinton/Obama to bring Asian International Economic Zones to other African nations enslaving Africans as Asian citizens were these decades. No doubt US black leaders envision themselves as the ones getting rich from all this. People are free to make whatever decision in these regards they want---the problem is these few decades of deliberate deceit by these Clinton/Obama Wall Street players that have killed 90% of black citizens and are killing all citizens in the working and middle-class. RUN AS REPUBLICANS IF YOU WANT TO PRESS FAR-RIGHT PUBLIC POLICY !
Larry Cohen added 5 new photos — with ShaiVaughn Crawley and 6 others at
Carter Memorial Church of Baltimore-COGIC.
The panel discussion on black youth in Sowebo was heartwarming in it's love & authenticity. The initial disbelief of Bernie internalizing the number of heroin addicts in Bmore was fascinating in how he knows that the extreme doesn't need to be. I wish others could have been there. He was everything I knew he was. I'm hopeful, as he is, that there can be change if we will it, but I'm also saddened by so many people who are voting without hope, belief, & love in their hearts. Also, proud of Kwame Rose for rising to the occasion.
Carter Memorial Church of Baltimore-COGIC
21 hrs · Currently on #Pstreet! Mr. President Bill Clinton.
Here comes Bill-----Baltimore has a hundreds of black churches many not wanting what Wall Street Baltimore Development is pushing but Bill and Hillary have created their own religious campaigners-----like the wall of pastors hanging at Plank's Cove Point UnderArmour campus----not too many follow this but this is from where getting the poor to the voting polls eminates----so we have poor that do not vote and poor being brought by Wall Street Baltimore Development 'justice' groups to the polls telling them to vote for PUGH and HILLARY.
You can believe this is why Hillary won across the south----and Maryland is a southern state----citizens here in Baltimore understand all this cronyism but I want my friends across the nation to understand why a candidate who really wants to do good for civil rights and liberties cannot get the votes today---the rigging of primary elections is strong---BUT NOT SO STRONG AS TO BE REVERSED---AND WE WILL DO THIS.
Bill Clinton visits Baltimore churches
Caption Bill Clinton
Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun April 24, 2016
Former president Bill Clinton speaks to the congregation of Southern Baptist Church to campaign for his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
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Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore SunFormer President Bill Clinton visited Southern Baptist Church and two other Baltimore churches to campaign for his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton ahead of Tuesday's primary election.
President Bill Clinton, touring to campaign for his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, visits three Baltimore churches Sunday.
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Cummings was the original Clinton Wall Street neo-liberal back in the 1990s breaking the banking wall Glass Steagall to create these few decades of massive and systemic fraud of our government coffers and people's personal wealth-----he and Pugh are the pols of the district Freddie Gray lived and are the faces of the third world conditions---deep poverty, militarized policing that led to the riots. So, Kwame Rose somehow goes viral in media with stars tweeting him for yelling at a reporter which happened all throughout the protests----becomes a 'leader' in Black Lives Matter from hundreds of black citizens who took to the streets-----Kwame backs Bernie controlling the Bernie movement in Baltimore and then very publicly endorses PUGH-----who all knew would promote Clinton.
Keep in mind----EVERYONE in Baltimore knows the fix is in and crony politics captures the city for decades----but they are going to SHAKE IT UP IN 2016!
Congressman Elijah Cummings endorses Senator Catherine Pugh for Mayor
WMAR Staff
5:54 PM, Apr 12, 2016
6:27 AM, Apr 13, 2016
Congressman Cummings endorses Senator Catherine Pugh for mayor of Baltimore
WMAR
After endorsing Hillary Clinton during her trip to Maryland over the weekend, congressman Elijah Cummings has made an endorsement in Baltimore's mayoral race.
He's endorsed senator Catherine Pugh.
Cummings says Pugh has passed a lot of meaningful legislation during her time as Senate Majority Leader and since she has already made such a difference across the state, she would make a great leader for Baltimore.
"She's experienced. She's prepared. She's knowledgeable. And she's smart. And most of all, she knows how to get things done," Cummings said. "That to me is so important. We can talk, talk, talk, but the question is when all the dust settles, have you gotten things done? Have you made something? Have you made somebody's life better?"
Cummings also mentioned Pugh's ability to take the lead on three key issues plaguing Baltimore City - finding jobs for young people, education and public safety.
"Catherine has even developed a plan to equip buses, which she calls mobile employment centers, to go into under-served neighborhoods and have employment experts match up people and their skills with existing available jobs," he said. "That's visionary. And that's leadership."
The congressman discussed innovations Pugh introduced like the new Baltimore Design School and how she's looking to reduce the number of property crimes in the city.
Pugh was leading the race according the most recent poll numbers, but former mayor Sheila Dixon was only a few points behind her.
Copyright 2015 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Bernie Sanders called Freddie Gray's community third world---the worst in the city was PUGH's and Cumming's district----FREDDIE GRAY'S COMMUNITY and it is. Pugh was the Baltimore City Council and Maryland Assembly pols passing all the laws sending all funds downtown to global corporate campus Enterprise Zones and not community enterprise zones. She is the one watching one Wall Street fraud after another target these communities---she is the one deregulating----dismantling oversight and accountability----tying global corporations in 'partnerships' to our city agencies including global VEOLA TRANSPORTATION and VEOLA WATER----the privatization of our public water and transit----all things hitting her constituents hardest. Yet, this is who Kwame Rose sentimentally endorsed for mayor----as he stood on the podium with Bernie as a Black Lives Matter media leader.
WE CAN AND WILL FIX THIS-----FASCISM IS STRONG WHEN NO ONE KNOWS WHO IS ZOOMING WHOM? THAT IS WHAT HAS BALTIMORE CAPTURED---AND IT IS FAR-RIGHT CORPORATE SOCIALISM.
Bill Clinton in Baltimore
- Bill Clinton
- Hillary Clinton
- Catherine E. Pugh
Colin Campbell / Baltimore Sun
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Black Lives Matter would of course not be linked to Clinton-----through PUGH----
This article leaves out two major issues----first, Bernie voted for a first version of a crime bill that ended up looking very different when it came around for the second vote----the second vote he voted NO. Second, Bill Clinton likes to allude to creating jobs during his terms but as we all know this was the beginning of the BUBBLE AS ECONOMY POLICY---this was the Tech Bubble that crashed to a recession as soon as he left office. What everyone needs to remember is Clinton policies from NAFTA to global markets brought devastation to our cities and labor ---stagnant economies and high unemployment---so look beyond the immediate time in office.
Bill Clinton Says He Regrets Showdown With Black Lives Matter Protesters
By AMY CHOZICKAPRIL 8, 2016
Former President Bill Clinton had a heated exchange with a protester during a rally for Hillary Clinton on Thursday in Philadelphia. Credit Ed Hille/The Philadelphia Inquirer, via Associated Press
Former President Bill Clinton said Friday that he regretted drowning out the chants of black protesters at a rally in Philadelphia the day before, when he issued an aggressive defense of his administration’s impact on black families. His reaction thrust a debate about the 1990s into the center of his wife’s presidential campaign, one that has focused heavily on issues of race and criminal justice.
“I know those young people yesterday were just trying to get good television,” Mr. Clinton said Friday of the Black Lives Matter protesters who had accused him and Hillary Clinton of supporting policies that devastated black communities. “But that doesn’t mean that I was most effective in answering it.”
His statement did not quiet a raging storm of criticism. Still, it was a remarkable reversal for Mr. Clinton, who occupies a singular role in his wife’s campaign as a spouse and a popular former president who can sometimes make himself into a lightning rod. He has had to campaign for his wife in an era when signature policies of his administration have been repudiated both by Mrs. Clinton and her opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
None of those issues has been more central to the 2016 campaign than the 1994 crime bill, which created tougher penalties for nonviolent drug offenders, erected dozens of new prisons, banned certain types of assault weapons and sent 100,000 more police officers to American cities.
Today, Black Lives Matter protesters have pointed to the effects of that legislation as contributing to the high rates of incarceration of black men and the current tensions between police officers and black communities.
Both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders supported the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and have had to answer to Black Lives Matter protesters at their events. Both candidates will face tough questions on racial issues next week at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network annual convention, less than a week before the April 19 New York primary.
“I was painting crack houses saying, ‘Why isn’t anyone doing anything about it,’” Mr. Sharpton recalled of the 1990s. “But when that bill came out, we panicked because we felt it would go too far.”
At a convention of the N.A.A.C.P. last July, Mr. Clinton even conceded that the law he championed sent low-level criminals to prison “for way too long” and “made the problem worse.”
But on Thursday, when confronted with protesters over the issue, the former president refused to silently listen as a signature policy of his presidency was trampled upon.
“I don’t know how you would characterize gang leaders who got 13-year-old kids hopped up on crack and sent them out on the street to murder other African-American children,” an animated Mr. Clinton said, waving a finger. “Maybe you thought they were good citizens. She didn’t,” he said of Mrs. Clinton.
The video and accounts of his remarks ignited a fierce backlash and came as Mrs. Clinton seeks to solidify the support of black voters, who have voted for her overwhelmingly in primary contests across the South and Midwest.
In her current campaign, Mrs. Clinton has been a fierce advocate of overhauling the criminal justice system, often campaigning alongside the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Sandra Bland and others who have lost children to gun violence or clashes with the police.
Last April, as protests were consuming Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., after the deaths of black men at the hands of police officers, Mrs. Clinton devoted her first major policy speech to overturning key parts of the bill. “It’s time to end the era of mass incarceration,” she said.
Hillary Clinton being introduced by the Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood on Sunday at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Brooklyn. Credit Victor J. Blue for The New York Times
On Sunday, she addressed three black churches in Brooklyn alongside Nicole Bell, the fiancée of Sean Bell, who was killed in a police shooting the morning of their wedding in 2006.
In both of Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaigns, Mr. Clinton has proved both her best asset and an occasional liability. He remains widely popular and Mrs. Clinton often talks about his economic achievements. “When he was president, 23 million new jobs, incomes went up for everybody, not just folks at the top,” she said on Sunday.
But other parts of Mr. Clinton’s record, including his support for global trade deals, deficit reduction and deregulation of Wall Street, have haunted Mrs. Clinton, as she confronts a challenge from the left.
And Mr. Clinton has, at times, been an unpredictable and disruptive presence on the campaign trail. He infuriated blacks in 2008 when, after Senator Barack Obama appeared poised for a landslide victory in South Carolina, Mr. Clinton reminded the news media that Jesse Jackson had won the state’s Democratic primary twice. He also called Mr. Obama’s position against the Iraq war “the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”
This time, Mr. Clinton has a close relationship with Mrs. Clinton’s senior campaign aides and has mostly remained dutifully on message, but the incident on Thursday served as a reminder that he remains a volatile force.
His clash with black protesters on Thursday also underscored the drastically different political landscape Mrs. Clinton faces from the centrist wave that swept her husband to power.
When Mr. Clinton ran for president in 1992, crack cocaine was ravaging American cities and the Willie Horton ad that the elder George Bush had used in 1988 to portray Michael Dukakis as soft on crime had wounded the Democratic Party.
“You are defending the people who kill the lives you say matter,” Mr. Clinton said Thursday to protesters who held up signs that read “Clinton Crime Bill Destroyed Our Communities” and “Black Youth Are Not Super Predators,” a reference to a term used by Mrs. Clinton in 1996 to describe gang members and which she has said she regretted using.
“Tell the truth,” Mr. Clinton told them.
His reaction prompted wide criticism online. “Bill Clinton Reached Peak White Mansplain in a Face-Off Against Black Lives Matter Protesters,” read a headline in Jezebel. Salon called his response “cringe worthy.”
“He just did to an entire generation what he did to Sister Souljah a generation ago,” Ben Jealous, a former president of the N.A.A.C.P. who is supporting Mr. Sanders, said in an interview, referring to Mr. Clinton’s forceful rebuttal of the activist and rapper in 1992 for remarks he deemed hateful.
By Friday, Mr. Clinton said, “I almost want to apologize.”
But Clinton allies said he should be putting into context his record and the landscape he confronted at the time.
In 1993, violent crime had more than tripled in the previous three decades and law enforcement had not caught up. By the time Mr. Clinton left office, crime had dropped to a 25-year low and the homicide rate had declined by more than 40 percent, according to F.B.I. data. Median family income for African-Americans increased by 33 percent in the Clinton years, according to census data, a statistic he often cites when facing criticism of the 1996 overhaul of the welfare system.
Representative James E. Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat and the highest-ranking African-American in Congress, voted for the 1994 crime bill. “There’s no question one of the biggest issues confronting the country at that time was the whole phenomenon of crack cocaine, which had precipitated tremendous anxiety through the African-American community,” Mr. Clyburn, who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, said in an interview.
But others say that the crime bill and the welfare overhaul, which cut federal spending on assistance for the poor by nearly $55 billion over six years, were done for political expediency at a time when the Democratic Party had lost five out of the last seven presidential campaigns and had to shift to the center to survive.
“What Clinton did well was to stop the erosion of a certain class of Democratic voters who were fleeing to the Republicans,” said Nicholas Turner, president of the Vera Institute of Justice. “You can’t think about crime policy in this country at that time without thinking about the politics of it.”
As for Mr. Clinton’s defense of the crime bill, Mr. Turner said, “I think the correct answer was simply, ‘I was wrong.’”
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Bernie Sanders called Freddie Gray's community third world---the worst in the city was PUGH's and Cumming's district----FREDDIE GRAY'S COMMUNITY and it is. Pugh was the Baltimore City Council and Maryland Assembly pols passing all the laws sending all funds downtown to global corporate campus Enterprise Zones and not community enterprise zones. She is the one watching one Wall Street fraud after another target these communities---she is the one deregulating----dismantling oversight and accountability----tying global corporations in 'partnerships' to our city agencies including global VEOLA TRANSPORTATION and VEOLA WATER----the privatization of our public water and transit----all things hitting her constituents hardest. Yet, this is who Kwame Rose sentimentally endorsed for mayor----as he stood on the podium with Bernie as a Black Lives Matter media leader.
WE CAN AND WILL FIX THIS-----FASCISM IS STRONG WHEN NO ONE KNOWS WHO IS ZOOMING WHOM? THAT IS WHAT HAS BALTIMORE CAPTURED---AND IT IS FAR-RIGHT CORPORATE SOCIALISM.
Bill Clinton in Baltimore
- Bill Clinton
- Catherine E. Pugh
- Hillary Clinton
There is a tie between black US leaders and African expansion of Clinton Wall Street global corporate neo-liberalism and as we see here-----black South Africans have been trying to get rid of Zuma for years. Wall Street Clinton neo-liberals have their NGOs and 'justice' non-profits in South Africa doing there what they do in US cities like Baltimore. Calm the riots and protests with temporary fixes as they continue to build the very, very, very far-right global corporate campus and global factory SOCIALISM. South Africa under Zuma has the same police brutality because International Economic Zones use militarized policing AS IN BALTIMORE---probably the same global policing and security training corporation.
White US citizens who think this is not about them---who may not care that people of color will be hit first hardest-----need to
WAKE UP-----GLOBAL CORPORATIONS SEE HUMAN CAPITAL NO MATTER THE RACE, SEX, OR CREED.
US black leaders are going to ZUMA's aid in quelling citizen protest as they are doing in the US cities----remember, a small percentage of US citizens from ALL population groups are recruited to do this---this is simply how it is working in the black communities. Brown, white communities all have the same 5% of citizens as Wall Street players posing progressive. Where will that 5% be after this coming crash and installing US International Economic Zones by flooding Baltimore with immigrants from around the world---especially the administrators? They will be under the bus with those 'losers' as Wall Street likes to call good people following the rules.
ZUMA MUST GO! CORRUPTION AND NEO-LIBERALISM MUST GIVE WAY!
UNITED FRONT PRESS STATEMENT
10 February 2016
If President Zuma respected the people and Constitution of this country, he would use tomorrow’s State of the Nation Address to resign. As confirmed yet again by yesterday’s Constitutional Court hearing on the so-called “Nkandla security renovations”, he has repeatedly breached his obligation to the law and the Constitution. The United Front is extremely angry that President Zuma, the Minister of Safety and Security Nathi Nhleko and the National Assembly had the audacity to abuse their power and positions to defend and protect Zuma’s undue benefits from public expenditure on the so-called “Nkandla security renovations”. The UF condemns Zuma, Nhleko and the National Assembly for flagrantly breaching the law in order to defend Zuma’s ill-gotten wealth. This is willful lawlessness on the part of the President, the Cabinet and the National assembly.
As yesterday’s extraordinary Constitutional Court hearing heard, the President and the National Assembly now finally admit and accept the Constitution’s directive that the Public Protector’s findings are binding unless taken on judicial review, and that President Zuma had no legal right to ask the Minister Nhleko to determine whether he owed anything for the Nkandla renovations. For its part, the National Assembly violated the Constitution in its failure to hold President Zuma accountable on the Nkandla renovations.
All this confirms that Zuma must go.
He is simply unfit to be our President.
Zuma has not only unduly benefitted from public expenditure or undermined democratic checks and balances. He has also presided over the most naked and unashamed looting of state coffers by tenderpreneurs directly linked to him. His presidency has also seen the continuation of anti-poor and anti-worker neo-liberal economic policies that continue to produce unemployment and tie our economy to the interests and power of financial oligarchs. Indeed, Zuma and the ANC government must fall because they have spectacularly failed to provide for the people of the country and have mortgaged our future to the imperialist speculators, financial institutions and investment bankers and their funds.
To this end, the United Front calls on mass movements, trade unions, progressive churches and other religious bodies, youth, students, women, landless people and other progressive forces across the country to unite behind the call for Zuma to go. This must be part of a broader effort to mobilise for, and win democratic political reforms, end neo-liberal policies and win alternative economic policies that create sustainable jobs and transform the economy.
The president of the country must be directly elected by the people, Cabinet ministers must be elected by parliament, Parliament must be elected by a majority constituency based system and voters must have the right to recall their elected public representatives. These changes will put the power to elect a President, the most important single position in the country, directly into the hands of the people. The president, regardless of, until now exclusively “his”, dominance over the political party will not matter as he would be directly accountable to the populace. It would also ensure that Members of Parliament would be directly accountable to and subject to recall by the people from the area that voted the MP into parliament. In addition to appointing Ministers, MPs would be directly accountable for voting for or against economic interests of the specific community that elected them.
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A 'justice' march through the third world district with the incumbent pols having made that district third world the day before the Democratic primary election all planned to promote these candidates. All of this happening as Baltimore citizens are heading to primary polls with PUGH and Dixon----two top Wall Street Baltimore Development candidates being highlighted as feeling the pain of these crumbling communities.
---'The two front-runners for mayor, Catherine E. Pugh and Sheila Dixon, each arrived with an entourage, causing a rush of TV cameras. Red-shirted Dixon volunteers seemed to be everywhere'.
Politicsby Fern Shen8:00 amApr 25, 2016
A policeman, a pastor and a publicist script a unity march in West Baltimore
The imagery at a Freddie Gray commemoration march is carefully controlled on the eve of the Baltimore primary
Above: Mayoral candidates Catherine Pugh and Sheila Dixon stand on either side of Pastor Jamal Bryant at yesterday’s march. (Louie Krauss)
A year ago – carrying homemade signs and with faces raw with emotion – people poured into the streets of West Baltimore for what felt like spontaneous protests over the fatal arrest of one of their own.
Yesterday the crowd that assembled for a “Unity March” in remembrance of Freddie Gray appeared to be organized by a top-ranking police official, a megachurch pastor and a publicist from Bowie carrying a leopard print handbag.
“Young ladies can you move over there? If you’re not media, would you move over there?” Lt. Col. Melvin Russell told a group of young women in the midst of a scrum of reporters, political candidates, campaign handlers and onlookers.
Russell explained that Pastor Jamal H. Bryant, organizer of the event, wanted young people prominently displayed at the media staging spot at the intersection of Pennsylvania and North avenues.
Lt. Col. Melvin Russell directs the crowd at Sunday’s Unity March at Penn-North. (Louie Krauss)
“Jamal wants everybody behind him. They want you guys on cameras so we can get started. Nobody’s going to see you if you’re back here,” Russell told them, eliciting some arched eyebrows.
“Hey, I’m just relaying a message from the pastor,” Russell said with a shrug.
“All of you who are over 18 and potty-trained, head over there,” another organizer said.
Actors and Politicians
Held on the weekend before both the 2016 mayoral primary election and the anniversary of the Freddie Gray protests and riot, the march mingled many agendas and brought out a bevy of big names from Baltimore and beyond.
Empowerment Temple publicist Nicole Kirby directs marchers with the flourish of a symphony conductor. (Louie Krauss)
“The Wire” actress and activist Sonja Sohn was there, a film crew tagging behind her. So was former NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous.
The two front-runners for mayor, Catherine E. Pugh and Sheila Dixon, each arrived with an entourage, causing a rush of TV cameras. Red-shirted Dixon volunteers seemed to be everywhere.
Buttonholing Pugh, Sandtown resident Leona Berry-Bova told her that people need help with basic education and skills. “People up in here need to learn to read and write or they’re never going to get anywhere,” Berry-Bova said.
“I developed a lot of programs around literacy. Let’s talk about that some time,” Pugh told her, turning away as actor Danny Glover appeared on the scene.
Berry-Bova told a reporter that she is a Dixon fan, but wanted to give Pugh a chance. “I been with Ms. Dixon from the age of 14 and I’m 44 now,” Berry-Bova said. “I’m living in one of the houses she gave me and my sister.”
Actor Danny Glover addresses the crowd at Penn-North. (Louie Krauss)
Other mayoral candidates were spotted as well, mostly on the fringes of the crowd. Among them Democratic mayoral candidates Carl Stokes and Patrick Gutierrez and Green Party candidate Joshua Harris with a dog on a leash.
“This is not a march against anything. It is a march for unity, it is a march for peace,” Pastor Bryant told the crowd.
Glover also addressed the crowd, at one point offering the Martin Luther King quote, “Peace is not simply the absence of tension, but the presence of justice.” He was standing in front of the CVS drugstore that had been looted and set ablaze during the April 27, 2015 civil unrest and has since been rebuilt.
Pumped up by a Publicist
Eventually, it was time for the march to start. Taking charge was Nicole Kirby, the publicist at Bryant’s Empowerment Temple in Northwest Baltimore.
She positioned Pugh and Dixon on either side of Pastor Bryant, and the phalanx of VIPs began moving forward.
Adroitly, she stopped their advance so that the gaggle of photographers could get footage and photos. It was as if someone had hit the “pause” button. After weeks of rancorous campaigning against each other, Pugh and Dixon stood uneasily nearly side-by-side as their images were captured.
Along the march route, Malik Creighton, 6, leaps into the arms of his brother Brian Rice, 14. (Louie Krauss)
Then Kirby commenced the march. She positioned herself at the front of the line where the young people had been assembled. She led them in the chant (“One Baltimore! One vision!”) and demonstrated the excitement she wanted them to show, shooting her fist in the air and po-going up and down at one point.
Motorcycle-mounted police led the crowd of several hundred people along West North Avenue toward their eventual destination – Bryant’s “Freddie Gray Empowerment Center” on Eutaw Place, a resource for young people.
Burning stick uplifted, a masked woman walks down North Avenue as part of yesterday’s “Unity March” in remembrance of Freddie Gray. (Louie Krauss)
Walking along in the crowd – and running at one point to get to the front – was U.S. Senate candidate Chris Van Hollen.
Also weaving through the crowd was an aroma that many assumed to be marijuana.
The source? A young woman who eventually donned an “Anonymous” mask she was carrying. Whether it was a blunt the size of a polish sausage, or simply a smudge stick, she was waving it around as if it were ceremonial incense.
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If you know that Empowerment Temple is a chain mega-church found in US cities tied often to being US International Economic Zones----and always seem to be the ones playing with the Wall Street Development Corporations in those cities----you see the capture for black citizens and voters. This is the Clinton capture of black churches----in Baltimore, Jamal Bryant's church is central to what will become the most wealthy city center community along Eutaw Street---so he knows none of the folks in those communities will be there in a decade. Below you see a PUBLICIST for Empowerment Temple taking photos of the most Wall Street global corporate neo-liberal candidates for Mayor of Baltimore walking for Freddie Gray. This publicist is from Prince George's County----Maryland's second US International Economic Zone with the same conditions and same global corporate campus/global factory goals. I liked how someone pointed to this publicist's LEOPARD-SKIN HANDBAG.
Remember, Jamal Bryant is the feeling the BERN member surrounded by the most Clinton of Wall Street neo-liberals in this Mayoral race.
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'Pumped up by a Publicist
Eventually, it was time for the march to start. Taking charge was Nicole Kirby, the publicist at Bryant’s Empowerment Temple in Northwest Baltimore.
She positioned Pugh and Dixon on either side of Pastor Bryant, and the phalanx of VIPs began moving forward'.
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'What are White Collar Sweatshops'?
US citizens are so tied to the long history of first world nation and having personal wealth they are not thinking these US International Economic Zones are going to take them to third world labor standards---they may not be toiling in global factory sweat shops---but they will and are now toiling. Developing nations have professional employees paid third world wages---what in the US is far below current minimum wage. That is why developing nation professional are trying hard to be part of our US International Economic Zones----more money by their standards---
A global UnderArmour campus will have white collar jobs as well as global factories and both will be SWEATSHOP LABOR---white collar US workers WILL work as they do overseas---professional or not. Very, very few people move up this economic ladder because you are competing with everyone in the world---global workforce willing to work for next to nothing to have a job.
Citizens in US International Economic Zone cities like BAltimore need to WAKE UP----those jobs brought for high-skilled workers will pay third world wages. They may be a step up from global factory workers in having better work environments---but they will be SWEAT SHOP WORKERS.
Those foreign high-skilled workers being brought to the US as cheaper labor for global corporations like Google and Apple will, if Trans Pacific Trade Pact is installed---then be working as if they were still in China or India taking US workers with them.
What are White Collar Sweatshops?
White collar sweatshops are characterized as high-stress environments that overwork employees and offer no job security.
The banking, communications and technology industries are considered to have jobs that are part of "white collar sweatshops."
White collar sweatshops received their name from the low paid, work-intensive environment of sweatshops.
Corporate buyouts and hostile takeovers often contribute to overwork in white collar jobs.
White collar sweatshops are office jobs that feature overwork, underpay, too much stress, and not enough security for their workers. They are based on the combined idea of the anxiety, rigor, and job cuts of blue collar jobs, and the frantic work days and low pay of sweatshops. The term was popularized by Jill Andresky Fraser in her 2001 book White Collar Sweatshops: The Deterioration of Work and its Rewards in Corporate America.
Andresky shows that shrinking benefits packages, hostile takeovers, mergers, contingency workers, corporate buyouts, longer work days, and cost cutting all contributed to the emergence of an overworked workforce. She cites Citigroup, Disney, and IBM as examples of white collar sweatshops, and blames many federal regulatory changes for these transformations among the upper working class at many places.
With the rise of competitive big-money corporations has come an increase in competition over jobs and salary. This has led to an increased workload by employees unsure of their job security. Not knowing where their future within a corporation may lie, white collar sweat shop workers find themselves pulling longer days, more weekends, and harder shifts. They reduce break times, increase productivity, and continue working from laptops well after shifts are over.
This competitive increase of work-related duties, coupled with a decrease of free time, sleep, or family time, leads to a high stress level at white collar sweatshops. This stress takes its toll on mental and physical health, making the increased duties even more difficult to carry out for many employees. According to the author, more Americans are working between 49 and 60 hours per week than ever before, and the rise of beepers, cell phones, and laptops has increased the anxiety of the work day more than ever before.
The banking, communications, and high technology industries are especially susceptible to white collar sweatshops. Industries such as these often feature high turnover, and stress-inducing ratings, rankings, and statistics. The economic boom of the 1990s, according to the author, skipped the white collar employees that run these industries, and went straight to the top of the companies. Perks and bonuses were sacrificed by the white collar sweatshops worker, while stalemated salaries and entry-level wages became the norm.
Fraser, a financial reporter, blamed the emergence of white collar sweatshops on 24-on-call weeks, shrinking pension plans, and the ability of a boss to access an employee anytime through e-mail. She cites employee-unfriendly situations and bosses at Intel, and says that the culture of the white collar job has changed unalterably in an age of big money and big business. The change has led to the white collar sweatshops and the stress, risks, and insecurity that accompanies them.
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You can really tell Bernie cares and wants a left-leaning social Democratic Revolution----his rhetoric is strong and revolutionary---he shouts TRUTH TO POWER and does not mince words about it----the Clinton controlled DNC sent a message to Bernie to tone it down as they are sure Hillary is going to win and feels it will be hard for Bernie to back Hillary with that kind of language.
No one knows motives----I feel he ran as a Democrat knowing third parties would get NO media or event exposure---and they do not----and in signing on as a Democrat had to work with the DNC----ergo, he had to make a commitment to back Hillary if he lost. I don't see him losing---and I do not see him actively engaged in campaigning for Hillary. He will say Trump must be stopped---but Trump and Hillary are the same far-right, autocratic, global wealth and corporate power candidates---Hillary would be Trump. The only worry for the 1% in Trump is the international stage.
Sanders at Baltimore Rally Draws Contrasts with Clinton
April 23, 2016
BALTIMORE – More than 6,600 supporters cheered U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday as he continued to draw distinctions with rival Hillary Clinton ahead of next Tuesday’s round of presidential primary contests in five Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.
Maryland Democrats go to the polls on Tuesday along with voters in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Sanders was headed to rallies in Delaware later Saturday and in Rhode Island on Sunday.
“All of you are enormously powerful people if you choose to exercise that right,” Sanders told the rally at Royal Farms Arena. “Our job is to tell the establishment that the status quo is not acceptable.”
All of you are enormously powerful people if you choose to exercise that right. Our job is to tell the establishment that the status quo is not acceptable.- Sen. SandersHe spelled out clear differences between his record and Clinton’s on campaign funding, foreign policy and war, the minimum wage, Wall Street reform, climate change, college affordability, retirement security and other critical issues.
Sanders contrasted his grassroots campaign, which is supported by more than 7 million donations averaging about $27 apiece, to Hillary Clinton’s campaign bankrolled by high-dollar donors to her White House campaign and to her super PACs, which have taken more than $25 million from Wall Street and other special interests.
Sanders was introduced by the civil rights activist and actor Danny Glover and by Benjamin Jealous, the former head of the NAACP.
In an interview taped earlier Saturday for the NBC News program “Meet the Press,” Sanders was asked about his differences and similarities with Clinton.
“I think there is a lot that unites us. I think there is a lot that divides us. I think the fact that all of us are in agreement that Donald Trump would be a disaster for this country if he became president unites us. The fact that we understand, for example, that climate change is real while our Republican opponents ignore that reality unites us,” Sanders told Chuck Todd.
“On the other hand, I think what divides us is the understanding on the part of millions of people who are supporting my candidacy that it really is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics. We have to deal in very substantive way with income and wealth inequality. We need to understand that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people, not to provide paid family and medical leave. We have to deal aggressively with a corrupt campaign finance system which allows big- money interests to buy elections. Those are areas I think of difference,” Sanders said.
The full interview airs Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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