🐦 Bernie Sanders Event - First Unitarian Congregational Society - Sat. April 16

[Donkees]

Bernie Sanders Returns to New York City on Saturday, April 16, 2016, Sunday, April 17, 2016 and Monday, April 18, 2016

NEW YORK -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday will begin his final swing through New York City. The Democratic Party presidential candidate will host the first of three events at First Unitarian Congregational Society, followed by Prospect Park on Sunday and Hunter's Point South Park on Monday. The campaign stops will feature special guests Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Cornel West, Linda Sarsour, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Danny DeVito, Justin Long, Grizzly Bear, Danny Glover, Fisher Stevens and TV on the Radio. Sanders will discuss a wide range of issues, including faith and social justice, getting big money out of politics, his plan to make public colleges and universities tuition-free, combating climate change and ensuring universal health care.

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Doors open at 6 p.m. Faith and Social Justice Roundtable featuring Rev. Al Sharpton, Dr. Cornel West and Linda Sarsour, First Unitarian Congregational Society, 116 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn

Information for the public: This is event is by invitation only. For security reasons, please do not bring bags and limit what you bring to small, personal items like keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, and signs or banners on sticks will not be allowed through security. Parking is not available on-site, but there is a public lot on Clinton St. Taking public transportation is encouraged

[FreakinDJ]

1. Is Al Sharpton going to be present there

Read some where Al Sharpton would be with Bernie

[Donkees]

2. That's what it says :)

[Donkees]

4. Looks like he didn't show up tonight

[Donkees]

3. Bernie Sanders speaks at multiracial roundtable in Brooklyn

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders is headlining a “Faith and Social Justice Roundtable” in Brooklyn moderated by the black intellectual Cornel West and a local Muslim activist.

Sanders steps onto podium about 8:15 p.m. Saturday to chants of “Bernie! Bernie! Bernie!”

Seeking to pierce Hillary Clinton’s firewall of black support in the final weekend before New York’s primary Tuesday, Sanders filled every pew at the First Unitarian Congregational Society church’s gothic revival sanctuary in Brooklyn Heights with a multiracial audience of supporters.

Discussing income inequality, “Is this morally acceptable?” Sanders asked. “No!” the audience replied.

The race between front-runner Clinton, the former first lady and secretary of state, in the Democratic race against Sanders is far closer than expected when the U.S. senator from Vermont began his bid. Sanders has won eight of the last nine primary contests.

The two have staked out policy positions to the left on issues related to black people, including police-on-civilian violence, mass incarceration and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws.

Saturday night’s forum, which is to begin at 8 p.m., features West and the Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. West and Sarsour are in Sanders’ camp. The Rev. Al Sharpton, who was scheduled to be a moderator, failed to show up for the event.


Sanders’ appearance comes hours after he returned from Rome, where he met with the pope. In a statement, the pope said the meeting didn’t suggest an endorsement


http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/bernie-sanders-speaks-at-multiracial-roundtable-in-brooklyn-1.11699930