[blind-democracy] FW: Bernie, speak up: War and corporate power fuel each other

From: "Bob Hachey" <bhachey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 03:24:27 -0400

Here's an opportunity for us to try to get Bernie to articulate foreign
policy planccs.

Bob Hachey

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Subject: Bernie, speak up: War and corporate power fuel each other

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When we surveyed RootsAction supporters nineteen months ago, more than 80
percent said they wanted Senator Bernie Sanders to run for president.

That wish has come true. With a strong grassroots campaign, Bernie is
eloquent as he denounces corporate power, economic inequality and
"oligarchy."

But he's saying very little about crucial issues of war, militarism and
foreign policy.

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9KJwu%2F4FUD4eE> Militarism and oligarchy go together. Click here to urge
Bernie Sanders to say so.

As of now, on his campaign's official website, the page headlined "Bernie
Sanders: On the Issues" says nothing at all about foreign policy, war or any
other such topics.

So far, Bernie's stump speech hardly mentions the huge military budget --
and does not talk about how it is a massive roadblock for the scale of
public investment in education, infrastructure and jobs that he is
advocating.

<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vyonKl77%2FBr2xQhlEJB98
pwu%2F4FUD4eE> Click here and put your name on the petition we're launching
today -- "Bernie Sanders, Speak Up: Militarism and Corporate Power Are
Fueling Each Other."

While invoking the name and spirit of Martin Luther King Jr., so far in this
campaign Bernie has detoured around Dr. King's essential antiwar message.

Just days ago, Bernie addressed the organization that King led, the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference. The long speech was eloquent, but you'd
never know from it that the United States is now in its fourteenth year of
continuous warfare. In fact, the only time Bernie's speech used the word
"war" was in the phrase "war on drugs." The only mention of the war industry
was a two-second reference to the "military-industrial complex."

Bernie's speech to the SCLC paid resounding tribute to Dr. King but made no
mention of his antiwar leadership. From Bernie's speech, you wouldn't have a
clue that King explicitly and emphatically linked the issues of economic
injustice at home with war abroad.

Bernie Sanders is one of only two sitting U.S. senators who joined the 1963
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King spoke about his dream.
King's life was cut short five years later as he campaigned for expanded
federal programs and a "poor people's bill of rights" -- not only organizing
for economic uplift but also an end to what he called "the madness of
militarism."

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truth: Adequate funds for programs of economic equity and social justice
will require an end to the "madness of militarism" that persists today.

Ongoing war and huge military spending continue to be deeply enmeshed with
basic economic ills from upside-down priorities. As the National Priorities
Project has documented, 54 percent of the U.S. government's discretionary
spending now goes to military purposes.

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corporate power and the nation's war machinery are fueling each other, click
here.

Overcoming militarism is just as vital as overcoming oligarchy. We won't be
able to do one without the other.

Thank you!

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Background:

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States"

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Conference

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