I'm glad you sent this because when I tried to sign it yesterday, the link
wasn't working. Then I went out and completely forgot to try again.
Miriam
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Here's an opportunity for us to try to get Bernie to articulate foreign
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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.
Militarism and oligarchy go together. Click here to urge Bernie Sanders to
say so.
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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.
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."
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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."
Click here to urge Bernie Sanders not to bypass this pivotal truth: Adequate
funds for programs of economic equity and social justice will require an end
to the "madness of militarism" that persists today.
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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.
To urge Bernie to make clear on the campaign trail how corporate power and
the nation's war machinery are fueling each other, click here.
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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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-- The RootsAction.org Team
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Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, Lila Garrett, Phil Donahue,
Sonali Kolhatkar, and many others.
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Bernie Sanders campaign website: "On the Issues"<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TS1Wj5DOMDvVu%2FDHH8JUV
National Priorities Project: "Military Spending in the United States"<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YG%2FTxGKy5cVoP0iyX1eq4
Bernie Sanders: Speech to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7ne705Czsv2WRNMxTUqtV12
