Black Lives Matter activists disrupt Bernie Sanders speech

“I think that history will suggest that that legislation has not worked terribly well”, he said, arguing that too many politicians would rather target the poor than poverty.

The face-off represented the second time in the past month that Sanders has been confronted by Black Lives Matter activists in a high-profile setting.

There is, however, one issue on which Sanders differs from some of his union allies: Asked about building trade unions’ support for the Keystone Pipeline, which he opposes on environmental grounds, Sanders said that while “every job is important”, his infrastructure proposal would create 13 million jobs, compared to just a couple thousand from Keystone. But alas, it was not to be.

Sen. Bernie Sanders took on the entire top-tier of the GOP field from his Twitter account on Thursday night… and for many, he won the debate hands down. She motioned for Sanders to join her at the microphone. Sanders, a 73-year-old independent who is challenging Clinton from the left, has called for a national single-payer health care program.

Sanders said goodbye to some supporters and asked them to go to his next event at the University of Washington before leaving in a white jeep. “I was especially disappointed because on criminal justice reform and the need to fight racism there is no other candidate for president who will fight harder than me”. “Period.”…

Later in the speech, Sanders touched on an issue Black Lives Matter protesters want to hear more on.

This is truly remarkable.

However, Sanders seems to be handling the protests better than some of his rivals. “He of course is his own super PAC”. At the first event, the candidate apparently was part of a scheduled event where all the proper permits were obtained and the rules were followed.

Bernie Sanders waits on the right side of the stage as protesters Marissa Johnson, left, and Mara Jacqueline Willaford, right, man the podium and microphone. In response he fled the scene.

Sanders was introduced by a series of speakers, almost all of whom mentioned Black Lives Matters. They also held a four minute moment of silence. Sanders was slated to speak at the event, commemorating the anniversary of social security and Medicare, the Washington Post reports.

I came back from a few days away to a barrage of emails from supporters of Sen. This is what inspires a nation to follow you into the future? His first, a rally on social security in downtown Seattle, never happened. “All lives matter”, O’Malley said before being booed by protesters. This one will be fun, or at least not boring, and we have Donald Trump to thank for that.

Many listeners and readers who wrote added that they feel NPR has ignored Sanders’ campaign, or framed it largely as a counterpoint to that of front-runner Clinton. He was outspoken, but in a reasonably polite way, and it sounded pretty much like you could take him or leave him as far as he was concerned.