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| Thousands turn out at Bernie Sanders New York rally ahead of primary – politics live | Thousands turn out at Bernie Sanders New York rally ahead of primary – politics live |
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| Chris Sheldon, president of the Communications Workers of America, addresses the crowd as the thousands crowded in Washington Square Park await Bernie Sanders’ arrival. | |
| “In front of you here are a few hundred, a few thousand of my members who went on strike today - 40,000 of them,” Sheldon says. “They went on strike today because the poster child for corporate greed wants everything that they’ve earned for the past 50 years, and we’re not gonna give it to ’em!” | |
| “There’s a lot of candidates running for office, brothers and sisters, who actually cause strikes there’s only one - only one! - who marches our picket lines, and that’s senator Bernie Sanders!” | |
| To be fair, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton joined striking CWA workers in midtown earlier today. | |
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| Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate Nina Turner, a former state senator from Ohio, mounts the stage and declares that “enough is enough is enough!” | |
| “The cause is right and the time is now!” Turner says. | |
| “Now New York it’s good when the family gets together, but I’m gonna tell you something, we’ve gotta get out there and make sure that people get together and vote to upset the political establishment,” Turner continues. “If we can abolish slavery and women can get the right to vote, we can get universal healthcare in this country!” | |
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| Campaigning for wife Hillary, Bill Clinton faced a sea of grey heads at a retirement village in Silver Spring, Maryland, and appeared to relish addressing pre-millennials who remember his days in the White House. | |
| “When I was president...” was a frequent refrain in a speech that also raised a laugh with the wry observation: “Having lost it, I can tell you: in economic terms, youth does matter.” | |
| Clinton’s address came as the 2016 campaign casts a fresh and not always flattering light on his own presidency. Democratic Congressman Bobby Rush said on Wednesday he was “ashamed” of his vote in favour of the now hotly debated 1994 crime bill because of its devastating effect on communities and families. | |
| Meanwhile an article in the Washington Post commented: “Clinton is caught in a time warp, having to grapple with how much the era in which he served, the events that occurred then and the actions he took as president have been reinterpreted and, by many in his own party, rejected.” | |
| More than a third of the Democratic electorate in Maryland is African American. Early voting begins on Thursday, ahead of the primary on26 April. Opinion polls show Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump comfortably ahead of their rivals. | |
| “It’s kind of a crazy election, isn’t it?” Bill Clinton asked at Leisure World, an 8,500-person retirement community. “The simple explanation for the intense passion in both primaries is rooted in the fact that 80% of the American people, after inflation, still haven’t gotten a raise since the crash, and about half the American people are still living on what they were living on the day I left office 15 years ago.” | |
| He then quoted a line from W B Yeats’s poem Easter 1916 – “Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart,” – and noted the disparity between positive headline figures and the stagnation felt by millions in their pockets. | |
| Clinton nodded to his past achievements in healthcare and small business creation, some of which was subsequently undone by George W Bush. He also praised Hillary’s dedication in going undercover to examine racial discrimination in 1970s Alabama and persuading him to follow Israel’s example in introducing pre-school education when he was governor of Arkansas. | |
| “I met her 45 years ago last month,” he concluded. “She is the best change maker I’ve ever known and she will do what is necessary as president so we can all rise together.” | |
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| Tim Robbins’ anti-media lines aren’t all that different from what one hears when attending a Donald Trump rally: | |
| The Lamestream media is taking a pounding from Tim Robbins. | |
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| Scott Bixby | |
| Actor Tim Robbins, who grew up in Greenwich Village, has taken the stage here in Washington Square Park. | |
| “I protested against the Vietnam War in this park, when I was a youngin’, and I’m so inspired to see all of you here,” Robbins says. “This is what democracy looks like!” | |
| He urges the crowd not to fight supporters of Hillary Clinton, but to persuade them. “These are not bad people - they fear the Republicans’ radical divisiveness just as much as we do,” Robbins says. “We have all been fed a steady stream of prop that furthers the establishment’s narrative that Hillary is the presumptive nominee. This narrative is strong and persuasive. It has been promulgated this month ... by oh-so-many in the mainstream media,” he continues, as the audience boos. | |
| “We are done with compromising our ideals; we are done with triangulation and fear-based politics,” Robbins says, encouraging supporters of Bernie Sanders to “not surrender our ideals to political pragmatism.” | |
| “Change will not happen by choosing a candidate entrenched entirely in the dysfunction of the past!” | |
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| Bernie Sanders isn’t the only presidential candidate willing to walk a picket line - former secretary of state Hillary Clinton met with picketing Verizon workers today in midtown Manhattan, embracing with New York public advocate Letitia James on the sidewalk in front of a Verizon store to express her support. | |
| “I believe in collective bargaining in good faith,” Clinton told local news station NY1. “I believe in unions being the voice for working people. I believe that the American labor movement helped to create the American middle class and I think the workers … need more support to get the kind of raises and benefits that they are due.” | |
| Clinton also had a message for the corporate leaders of Verizon, the largest wireless telecommunications provider in the US. “You need to engage in real negotiation and this has been going on for months,” Clinton said. “People need to come to the table and reach an agreement. And the workers here, CWA workers, I know from having represented them back in my Senate years, are skilled workers, experienced workers and they deserve to have a fair contract.” | |
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| Scott Bixby | Scott Bixby |
| Meanwhile, members of the American corporate elite are not feeling the Bern. Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam has fired off an aggressive post on LinkedIn, lambasting what he calls Bernie Sanders’ “contemptible” views on corporate tax rates. | Meanwhile, members of the American corporate elite are not feeling the Bern. Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam has fired off an aggressive post on LinkedIn, lambasting what he calls Bernie Sanders’ “contemptible” views on corporate tax rates. |
| “The senator’s uninformed views are, in a word, contemptible,” McAdam writes, before challenging Sanders “to show me a company that’s done more to invest in America than Verizon.” | “The senator’s uninformed views are, in a word, contemptible,” McAdam writes, before challenging Sanders “to show me a company that’s done more to invest in America than Verizon.” |
| “I understand that rhetoric gets heated in a presidential campaign,” McAdam continues. “I also get that big companies are an easy target for candidates looking for convenient villains for the economic distress felt by many of our citizens. But when rhetoric becomes disconnected from reality, we’ve crossed a dangerous line. We deserve better from people aspiring to be president. At the very least, we should demand that candidates base their arguments on the facts … even when they don’t fit their campaign narratives.” | “I understand that rhetoric gets heated in a presidential campaign,” McAdam continues. “I also get that big companies are an easy target for candidates looking for convenient villains for the economic distress felt by many of our citizens. But when rhetoric becomes disconnected from reality, we’ve crossed a dangerous line. We deserve better from people aspiring to be president. At the very least, we should demand that candidates base their arguments on the facts … even when they don’t fit their campaign narratives.” |
| The Democratic presidential candidate walked a picket line with Verizon protesters in New York earlier today, telling the roaring crowd that “you have chosen to stand up for dignity.” Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job today in one of the largest US strikes in recent years after contract talks with the company’s union hit an impasse. | The Democratic presidential candidate walked a picket line with Verizon protesters in New York earlier today, telling the roaring crowd that “you have chosen to stand up for dignity.” Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers walked off the job today in one of the largest US strikes in recent years after contract talks with the company’s union hit an impasse. |
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| Next up on the rock concert playlist: Unbelievers, another Vampire Weekend hit (one of our favorites, if we may tip our cards). Sample lyrics: | Next up on the rock concert playlist: Unbelievers, another Vampire Weekend hit (one of our favorites, if we may tip our cards). Sample lyrics: |
| “I’m not excited, but should I be? / Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me? / I know I love you, and you love the sea / But what holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me...” | “I’m not excited, but should I be? / Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me? / I know I love you, and you love the sea / But what holy water contains a little drop, little drop for me...” |
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| The stage has been mounted by Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors, two popular rock groups who have come out in support of Bernie Sanders. Vampire Weekend is composed of alumni of nearby Columbia University, whose students are probably highly annoyed that Sanders is making an appearance downtown instead of on their lush neo-classical Morningside Heights campus. | The stage has been mounted by Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors, two popular rock groups who have come out in support of Bernie Sanders. Vampire Weekend is composed of alumni of nearby Columbia University, whose students are probably highly annoyed that Sanders is making an appearance downtown instead of on their lush neo-classical Morningside Heights campus. |
| “If there’s one place to put aside the bourgeois rivalries” of intercollegiate jockeying, one of the bandmates told the crowd, it’s here in Greenwich Village. | “If there’s one place to put aside the bourgeois rivalries” of intercollegiate jockeying, one of the bandmates told the crowd, it’s here in Greenwich Village. |
| Vampire Weekend breaks out into an a cappella rendition of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, the band’s fourth-ever single from its eponymous album. Give a listen to the studio version here: | Vampire Weekend breaks out into an a cappella rendition of Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, the band’s fourth-ever single from its eponymous album. Give a listen to the studio version here: |
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| at 12.29am BST | at 12.29am BST |
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| Paul Song, an oncologist and healthcare activist who supporters Bernie Sanders, just told the rally’s attendees that the health care system is broken - and any allegations to the contrary are “bullshit.” | Paul Song, an oncologist and healthcare activist who supporters Bernie Sanders, just told the rally’s attendees that the health care system is broken - and any allegations to the contrary are “bullshit.” |
| “Please do not believe the bullshit that our health care system is okay!” Song said, to loud cheers at what may be the first use of scatological swearing on the Democratic campaign trail. “The status quo sucks, and people are dying because of it.” | “Please do not believe the bullshit that our health care system is okay!” Song said, to loud cheers at what may be the first use of scatological swearing on the Democratic campaign trail. “The status quo sucks, and people are dying because of it.” |
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| Lauren Gambino | Lauren Gambino |
| There are supporters and then there are fans. These two ladies are super fans. pic.twitter.com/QQ7SFYWq7s | There are supporters and then there are fans. These two ladies are super fans. pic.twitter.com/QQ7SFYWq7s |
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| Scott Bixby | Scott Bixby |
| Bernie Sanders’s star power may have brought the biggest group of people to Washington Square Park since then-senator Barack Obama held what the New York Times called “one of the largest campaign events of the year” in 2007, but that doesn’t mean he’s the only megawatt personality here in Greenwich Village tonight. | Bernie Sanders’s star power may have brought the biggest group of people to Washington Square Park since then-senator Barack Obama held what the New York Times called “one of the largest campaign events of the year” in 2007, but that doesn’t mean he’s the only megawatt personality here in Greenwich Village tonight. |
| Among the 24,000 people who have RSVPd for the rally in Washington Square Park include a huge roster of Hollywood celebrities, performance artists and other fixtures in the pop-culture firmament, including director Spike Lee, actor Tim Robbins, Daredevil star Rosario Dawson, REM frontman Michael Stipe and Divergent actress Shailene Woodley. | Among the 24,000 people who have RSVPd for the rally in Washington Square Park include a huge roster of Hollywood celebrities, performance artists and other fixtures in the pop-culture firmament, including director Spike Lee, actor Tim Robbins, Daredevil star Rosario Dawson, REM frontman Michael Stipe and Divergent actress Shailene Woodley. |
| 11.58pm BST | 11.58pm BST |
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| Scott Bixby | Scott Bixby |
| Well, that took longer than expected. | Well, that took longer than expected. |
| Not a bad day for a revolution. pic.twitter.com/3EL8iE7eJJ | Not a bad day for a revolution. pic.twitter.com/3EL8iE7eJJ |
| Security at Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ rally in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park is at an all-time high, with lines of thousands of supporters stretching out for blocks in every direction as Sanders fans feel the burn (Bern!) of strict Secret Service oversight. Any New Yorker who has survived the Macy’s Day Parade or Times Square during the holiday shopping season would tell you that the chaos here is relatively controlled, but there are still some complications - particularly in the press line. | Security at Vermont senator Bernie Sanders’ rally in Greenwich Village’s Washington Square Park is at an all-time high, with lines of thousands of supporters stretching out for blocks in every direction as Sanders fans feel the burn (Bern!) of strict Secret Service oversight. Any New Yorker who has survived the Macy’s Day Parade or Times Square during the holiday shopping season would tell you that the chaos here is relatively controlled, but there are still some complications - particularly in the press line. |
| The Sanders campaign is fairly libertine with its press credentialing - unlike certain other candidates - but as today’s rally careens off schedule, the lack of a hard press pass means that I’ve been relegated to covering the rally via a livestream obtained over the WiFi of a nearby burger restaurant. | The Sanders campaign is fairly libertine with its press credentialing - unlike certain other candidates - but as today’s rally careens off schedule, the lack of a hard press pass means that I’ve been relegated to covering the rally via a livestream obtained over the WiFi of a nearby burger restaurant. |
| Fortunately, the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino had more success gaining entry to the press area than myself - and we’ll be bringing you every bit of action in tandem. | Fortunately, the Guardian’s Lauren Gambino had more success gaining entry to the press area than myself - and we’ll be bringing you every bit of action in tandem. |
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| I’d estimate about 8,000 people here, maybe more. The lines go for blocks in every direction. | I’d estimate about 8,000 people here, maybe more. The lines go for blocks in every direction. |
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| Scott Bixby | Scott Bixby |
| A heavy police presence, Christian evangelists and oppressively long lines radiating out in every direction from Manhattan’s Washington Square Park have done little to dampen the jubilant mood of Bernie Sanders supporters here, who have congregated in Greenwich Village to witness the Democratic presidential candidate give what may prove to be the most widely attended rally of the campaign. | A heavy police presence, Christian evangelists and oppressively long lines radiating out in every direction from Manhattan’s Washington Square Park have done little to dampen the jubilant mood of Bernie Sanders supporters here, who have congregated in Greenwich Village to witness the Democratic presidential candidate give what may prove to be the most widely attended rally of the campaign. |
| With high-profile music acts like Vampire Weekend celebrities like Rosario Dawson and numerous fans in home-fashioned Bernie Sanders costumes, there is a carnival-esque feeling in the air, right down to barkers selling Sanders campaign swag and a very young schoolboy asking attendees if they feel the Bern over a megaphone held by his father. | With high-profile music acts like Vampire Weekend celebrities like Rosario Dawson and numerous fans in home-fashioned Bernie Sanders costumes, there is a carnival-esque feeling in the air, right down to barkers selling Sanders campaign swag and a very young schoolboy asking attendees if they feel the Bern over a megaphone held by his father. |
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| Others seem to be facing a long wait to get in too ... | Others seem to be facing a long wait to get in too ... |
| Waiting for three hours so far with thousands of others to see Bernie! #feelthebern #bernie2016 #nyc pic.twitter.com/GFPKFfUrIn | Waiting for three hours so far with thousands of others to see Bernie! #feelthebern #bernie2016 #nyc pic.twitter.com/GFPKFfUrIn |
| #Bernie's rally in Washington Pk hours away, but thousand's already for several blocks #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/QN0R8ouJsf @vegansmithsfan | #Bernie's rally in Washington Pk hours away, but thousand's already for several blocks #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/QN0R8ouJsf @vegansmithsfan |
| A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE FOR BERNIE pic.twitter.com/VoQmOUc6qA | A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE FOR BERNIE pic.twitter.com/VoQmOUc6qA |
| Birazdan Bernie Sanders mitingi başlıyor. Binlerce genç, solcu ilk defa iktidara yakın olmanın sevincini yaşıyor. pic.twitter.com/Cv81Mkf4oI | Birazdan Bernie Sanders mitingi başlıyor. Binlerce genç, solcu ilk defa iktidara yakın olmanın sevincini yaşıyor. pic.twitter.com/Cv81Mkf4oI |
| Um all right vampire weekend and Bernie AND Washington square park pic.twitter.com/SCzyApZV0n | Um all right vampire weekend and Bernie AND Washington square park pic.twitter.com/SCzyApZV0n |