Protesters Shut Down Bernie Sanders in Seattle – But That Didn’t Stop Him

As Fox News hosted the first full debate between the “top-tier” candidates of the Republican presidential candidates on Thursday night, Sen.

When Bernie Sanders held that nationwide live stream event, my community center, the American Indian Center of Chicago (AIC), was asked by the Sanders campaign to be one of the meeting places for his event.

“No president will struggle more durable to finish institutional racism and reform felony justice system”, he advised the cheering crowd at Hec Edmundson pavilion, based on the King5-TV station.

“If you do not listen to [us], your event will be shut down”, one protester said, while members of the audience booed. “The biggest movement right now in the country is the Black Lives Matter movement”. Right at the beginning of the speech, when Sanders congratulated the city on being one of the most progressive in the nation, two women walked on stage and took the microphone, the Seattle Times reported.

In a news release posted on social media, local Black Lives Matter activists said they were holding Sanders and other white progressives accountable for failing to support their movement. We need millions of people coming together to take on the corporate interests and the billionaire class who have so much power today. The candidate then faces the interesting task of convincing the middle ground that they are not as rightist/leftist as they have been telling their primary voters for the past year, honest.

The activists took hold of the microphone for a half hour just as city officials planned to hand off to Sanders, who patiently waited for his turn to talk about Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid at the Westlake Park stage.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) said on Sunday that 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is a life-long defender of minorities.

“You are never going to hear Bernie speak if I don’t hear silence now”, said Johnson, adding later, “Now that you’ve covered yourself in your white supremacist liberalism, I will formally welcome Bernie Sanders to Seattle”. “Black lives do matter”. Sanders said, ” We’re exhausted of seeing black people yanked to the ground and assaulted…We have to combat institutionalized racism in the U.S”.

Marissa Johnson, Mara Willaford, and Bernie Sanders, observing a moment of silence.

We had about 150 people for the event – filling up the largest room in the building! The racial justice link is now under the his campaign website’s “issues” tab.

This time it happened in Seattle when Sander’s portion of the first of two events in the area was closed down before it had even begun.