Just a reminder

[WomenRising2017]

Black Lives Matter, Women Matter, LGBT rights Matter, Freedom of Religion Matters, The environment matters, World Peace matters, Education matters, Science matters, Health care matters, Justice matters, Civil Rights matter, refugee's matter, college costs matter, poverty and homelessness matter, mental health matters, gun control matters, Freedom and Justice for all matters.

[Arazi]

1. Medicare for all matters, economic justice matters, plus all of the above matters

Thanks Bernie!

Great OP!

[MuseRider]

2. Agreed!

Great OP!

[WomenRising2017]

3. Please spread the word to "Bernie" too

It's a message he needs to hear.

[Arazi]

4. He totally gets it

Berniesanders.com

Man on fire on Twitter too - your OP issues are his hot topics. If you're not following him, you're missing his passionate advocacy for your OP concerns

[BainsBane]

6. Yet he is campaigning for a pro-life candidate

who sponsored a bill requiring women who want abortions to be showed ultrasounds of their fetus. That's not getting it.

Perhaps the strangest thing about this is that Sanders isn't vouching for Ossoff's progressivism even as he's doing so for another Democrat of pretty questionable credentials. That would be Omaha mayoral candidate and former state senator Heath Mello, whom Sanders will campaign with Thursday.

As the Wall Street Journal's Reid J. Epstein and Natalie Andrews note, Mello in 2009 sponsored a bill that would require a woman to look at ultrasound images of her fetus before undergoing an abortion (he still opposes abortion rights). Indeed, it's tough to think of something that progressives would hate more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/20/bernie-sanderss-strange-behavior/?utm_term=.722503041999

This is the second pro-life candidate he has endorsed. I have supported precisely none; nor will I change on that. The equal rights of half the population of this country are not optional.

[MontanaMama]

11. An anti choice stance is a deal breaker

It speaks volumes about how women are valued and respected. He might be showing us who is is...When someone shows you who they are...believe them! Best advice my dad ever gave me.

Thanks dad. I miss you.

[BainsBane]

19. Notice the defening sound of silence

over concern for women's equal rights. It's looking increasing like we just don't matter.

[BigmanPigman]

21. Silence speaks volumes.

[Arazi]

33. Shrug. Either look at Bernie's record or not

He's absolutely pro choice and pro women.

As Cary said, vote Democratic

[Demsrule86]

38. I would vote for the Democrat in all cases.

However, the guy who endorsed is a different case...he helped the pro-choice candidates ...surely there were better options...thus I would never vote for the person who endorsed this candidate for anything again.

[WomenRising2017]

8. Please ask him to help us, because so far he has been silent on these issues.

Link to tweet

P.S.

I have no intention in following him. He's clueless.

[Cha]

9. Not so sure.. Pro Choice Matters to us.

[sheshe2]

22. Women matter to me.

Mello is pro-life which makes Mello anti-women. That does not work for me.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/20/1654645/-Daily-Kos-statement-on-withdrawing-endorsement-of-Heath-Mello

Our Bodies. Ourselves. Our Choice. Our Voice. Full Stop.

[MontanaMama]

40. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And YES. I never thought we'd still be fighting this fight. It may never be over. When the Dem candidate is anti choice, we are in trouble.

[Cha]

5. Pro Choice Matters.

[WomenRising2017]

7. Oh hell yes.

Thank you!

[Cha]

10. You're Welcome, WR..

[sheshe2]

23. Our Voice. Our Choice.

[MontanaMama]

13. I'm past my child bearing years

And this issue has never mattered more to me. I'll go down fighting for choice.

[Cha]

15. So am I, MontanaMama.. but I

know how important it is!

[MontanaMama]

16. I remember my mom

Telling me back in the early 80's that this fight wasn't over. I didn't believe her at the time but holy hell, she was right.

[NCTraveler]

36. I'm of the opinion that fighting against oppression....

Must be our priority. It is litmus test worthy. If one wants to oppress my brothers and sisters they are my opposition.

[betsuni]

12. K&R

[404usernamenotfound]

14. OK but

what about just every day people? Who happen to be white? Do their lives matter? Because that's what I am and I am sick and tired of the narrative that all these other lives matter but my life, my 12 year old daughter's life and my wife's life doesn't matter because we are not in a particular racial or social group that matters more.

[WomenRising2017]

17. Of course they do.

Are you freaking serious with this shit?

[sdaz]

18. Every day people?

So none of those mentioned in the op will effect or help in your life or family?What your saying is what Trump was spewing with his hate and divisive speeches.

[Skittles]

30. everyday people as in not, you know, THOSE people

WINK WINK

[murielm99]

20. Don't you understand that the way our institutions

and our laws have been set up, the way we interact with each other ASSUMES that white lives matter? Do you understand what white privilege is? You have always been in a racial and social group that mattered more. Saying that other groups matter does not take anything away from the value of your life.

[BainsBane]

24. Your position is that as a white person

You don't matter because people of color are valued more? What is it about equal rights that you feel excludes you?

Or are you saying you want a party that prioritizes whiteness and maleness above women and people of color? Whites earning 7 to 8 times the income of people of color isn't enough of an advantage for you to not feel oppressed because others have some limited opportunities?

[sheshe2]

26. That is going to hurt...

fantastic post.

[BainsBane]

27. It wasn't intended to hurt.

[JI7]

25. so blacks, women, lgbt are not "everyday people" ?

[sheshe2]

28. Everyday people?

What does that even mean?

Your wife and daughter were covered by the OP, as you well know. They are under the category of 'women'. Seems to me that you are making this about you.

[Skittles]

29. LOL

are you fucking serious? I bet you're one of those people who says, "BUT I HAVE BLACK FRIENDS!"

[applegrove]

31. Your lives have always mattered. That is why 'Black Lives Matter' is

such a powerful statement. Because for such a long time black lives were just a statistic, not making the news when kidnapped or shot. It is a wake up call to the world. Some of my ancestors came to Nova Scotia and had to spend a year working off their ship's passage costs. Then they got to work for themselves and vote and have a government that cared for them and wanted them to thrive. They got the vote as soon as voting was invented. They got jobs. And good schools. And they were not terrorized. No police tried to break their noses with a club because they wanted to same things as everybody else. No political party made them the scapegoats for 100 years and then switched to another political party that made them a scapegoat for the next 100 years. Up to today. And they were all white. They always mattered. 'Black Lives Matter' is just a statement of pulling even. Let that ring out for a bit. Without interrupting.

[Solly Mack]

34. Bullshit. No one has ever said your life didn't matter. You choose to hear "Black Lives Matter"

as an attack instead of what it is - an expression that black lives matter in a country where racism has dominated the treatment of black people.

That white chip you wear on your shoulder is preventing you from seeing the honesty of the phrase.

You give yourself away with the words

... but what about just every day people?

What? POC are not everyday people?

Please.

[NCTraveler]

37. You did it wrong.

That's not how to fly under the radar. I do appreciate the transparency.

[Demsrule86]

39. self -delete...

[dchill]

32. Truth matters. Ethics matter. Laws matter.

[NurseJackie]

35. Amen.