Couldn’t squeeze into the Comet Saturday or didn’t have the scratch to donate to the Bernie Sanders for President campaign? Here’s what you missed thanks to YouTube user Aaron Arterburn.
Presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held the fundraiser meet-and-greet Saturday inside the Comet Tavern before a rally at the UW’s Hec Edmundson Pavilion. Earlier in the day, the appearance of Sanders at a Westlake rally supporting Social Security was cut short by Black Lives Matter protesters.
“This income and wealth inequality is grotesque, it is immoral, it is unsustainable,” Sanders said during his 14-minute speech. Following the scene at Westlake, Sanders spoke frequently of the need for unity in his remarks at the renovated Pike/Pine dive bar and extolled the crowd to tell “Corporate America” that “their greed is destroying this country and they ain’t gonna get away with it anymore.”
UPDATE: Sunday night brings the #BLACKLIVESMATTER : March For Freedom event starting at 6 PM at Seattle Central:
Its has been one year since Mike Brown was shot by ex police officer Darren WILSON.
Since Mike Brown was killed August 9th 2014– Hundreds of Unarmed Black people have been killed by police in 2015 already
THIS HAS TO STOP-TIME TO MARCH FOR FREEDOM AND PUT A END TO the POLICE BRUTALIZING PEOPLE AND The police MURDERING PEOPLE AND TIME TO END Racism and anti blackness
WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND BE UNITED AS ONE AGAINST injustice ,racism,oppression,police brutality and get JUSTICE FOR Freddie gray,Mike Brown,Tamir Rice,Tony Robison,Sandra Bland and hundreds of other unarmed people of color KILLED BY POLICE
people must gather and make a very visible and loud demonstration and do what it takes to get justice for Mike Brown and Freddie gray,Mike Brown,Tamir Rice,Tony Robison and hundreds of other unarmed people of color KILLED BY POLICE ! Bring signs and banners, bring cardboard and markers so other people can make signs.
The scene outside the Comet was, perhaps, even more dramatic. A crowd gathered around the tavern’s windows with people hoping to get a look at the goings-on inside mixed with people watching the production of a day-long Mercedes Benz commercial shoot on 10th Ave involving nearby businesses and buildings. Meanwhile, E Pike was also being prepared for the first night of the pedestrian zone project to create a safer street experience for weekend nightlife crowds.
Capitol Hill is a madhouse. Bernie Sanders and a car commercial within 20 ft of each other. pic.twitter.com/GnyixJAokh
— Marley Blonsky (@MarleyBlonsky) August 9, 2015
Heard the event sold out but I cannot find out how many people actually showed. Any idea? I was able to attend his rally at the UW last night. Very exciting. #FeelTheBern #Bernie2016
FYI
BERNIE IS OUR CANDIDATE WITH A REAL PEOPLE ORIENTED PLATFORM!!! HE JUST MADE STRATEGIC ERROR OF NOT TOURING AFRICATOWN / CENRAL DISTRICT BEFORE COMMENTING ON SEATTLE’S “SELMA / MISSISSIPPI” ANTI-BLACK BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, ANTI-BLACK INSTITUTION DEVELOPMENT, ANTI-BLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND “PROGRESSIVE” PRO-ARYAN NATION REALITY WITH A SMILE???
YES BERNIE BLACK LIVES, BLACK BUSINESS, BLACK INSTITUTIONS AND BLACK PEOPLE MATTER HERE IN SEATTLE IF YOU CAN FIND THEM???
BERNIE FYI PLEASE READTHE FOLLOWING ABOUT SEATTLE’S BLACK “PROGRESSIVE” POLITICAL HAS BEEN AND WANNABEES???
AS A RESIDENT OF DISTRICT 3 FOR 69 YEARS IT IS VERY INTERESTING TO READ THESE POST ON THE DISTRICT 3 CANDIDATES??? PLEASE BACK UP AND GO TO THE WEBSITE “URBAN LEAGUE WATCH”??? JAMES “GUNSLINGER” KELLY IS NOW GUNSLINGING FOR THE CITY OF SEATTLE IN PAM ‘DOWNTOWN’ BANKSTER’S OLD CITY POSITION, WAS/IS PART OF SEATTLE’S DOWNTOWN ORGANIZED CRIME RICO-RACKETEERING GANG (PLEASE READ “ON THE TAKE BY” BY WILLIAM WEBSTER). ALSO GOOGLE SEATTLE URBAN LEAGUE SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT SMALL BUSINESS SCANDAL???
THE DOWNTOWN ORGANIZED CRIME MAGICIAN HAVE YOU LOOKING AT THE WRONG HAND IN THE WRONG DIRECTION??? THE URBAN LEAGUE’S FORMER BOARD MEMBERS NORM “DON’T GET SHOT AGAIN” RICE, BOB “WAMU VICE” FLOWERS, SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY DIRECTOR ANDREW “VULCAN” LOFTON, AND SEATTLE HOUSING AUTHORITY LAWYER JAMES “THE WORM” FEARN , WERE/ARE DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE RICO-RACKETEERING NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM (NAAM IS A SCAM) FRAUD. THEIR HANDLER AND MOB BOSS IS NONE OTHER THAN KERRY “KILLED WAMU” KILLINGER???
PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH AND THEN DON’T LET THE FACTS BLIND YOU OR HURT YOUR FEELINGS??? WITH TODAYS INTERNET THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR BEING IGNORANT OR STUPID??? AS A SENIOR AFRICATOWN / CENTRAL DISTRICT / CAPITOL HILL / BROADMOOR / MADISON PARK / MADRONA / LESHI / SQUIRE PARK / JUDKINS REJECTED HISTORIAN, I ADVISE YOU TO RESEARCH ORGANIZED CRIME IN SEATTLE FROM SEATTLITE TEAMSTER PRESIDENT DAVE BECK TO WASHINGTON MUTUAL’S (WAMU) KERRY KILLINGER / BOB FLOWERS TO TOM “CORRUPT COP” BURGESS TO THE URBAN LEAGUE’S PAM “DOWNTOWN” BANKSTER???
FINALLY WATCH OUT FOR THE CORPORATE BANKSTER’S MEDIA “TRUE AND BALANCED” / “BIG LIE” ELECTION CAMPAIGN COVERAGE??? Omari Tahir-Garrett, VIETNAM VETERAN, WORLD TRAVELER, HISTORY TEACHER AND CANDIDATE FOR SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL (2018)
Website: OmariForCityCouncil
Website: AFRICATOWN / CHINATOWN NEWS DIGEST
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Tyler on Friday, August 21, 2015 – 4:12 pm said:
Pamela Banks is a real miltant black radical who supports disrupting even Bernie Sanders for the cause because she’s just that hardcore like that. Except wait a minute she has the endorsement and a $700 contribution from the Seattle Police Officers Guild you say? She is funded by all the developers who want to gentrify and whitewash the Central District and make hundreds of millions of dollars? Her strongest base of support in the district is a gated country club?