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Last year my coworkers and I found ourselves, once again, in the fight of our lives against one of the most powerful and richest corporation’s in the world. #Disney, had for a LONG time gotten away with paying poverty wages to its employees. And most of them couldn’t afford or could barely afford Disney’s healthcare plan. It was discovered, through a Disney worker survey, that there were coworkers who at one point were homeless and lived out of their cars. One of them was found dead in their car after not showing up for work for several days. And many others were food insecure, were on food stamps and feared being evicted every month due to these poverty wages that we were fighting against. My Union, #UniteHereLocal11, had a plan to win this fight.
And someone also came down to Anaheim and held a huge town hall meeting/rally at the River Arena, allowing the struggles of my coworkers to be exposed to the world. This person was Bernie Sanders. He was the ONLY current presidential Democratic candidate to come down and have our backs. And this wasn’t the first time that #BernieSanders had made it a personal goal to fight against Disney’s longtime practice of paying poverty wages to its workers, (just like he has fought #Amazon and #Walmart for the same causes.) It was an EXTREMELY powerful and inspiring moment for all of us Disney workers who were standing up for a better life for our families, our children and our coworkers. And we won that fight.
#Sanders has been fighting for people he doesn’t know his ENTIRE political career. He’s the ONLY current presidential Democratic candidate who has gotten ARRESTED for fighting against social injustice. This is his PASSION. He is responsible for reeling in the Democratic party from a dangerous and inhumane center that had started to look more and more like the old Republican party, back when THAT party wasn’t as far right as it is now. Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have not only endorsed #Bernie, but are also campaigning tooth and nail for this massive #grassroots movement that is bigger than any one person.
As Bernie’s campaign itself states, #NotMeUs ✊
#Bernie2020 #SiSePuede 🇺🇸
Thanks for the post. That was a great day and a great speech. As someone who’d been fighting Disney in a proxy war in court, hearing Bernie weigh in on what I considered a local issue was electrifying. It’s a good example of why he’s earned such supporter loyalty.
A couple of relevant notes. One from a Sander’s senior adviser:
“The headlines about Bernie’s fourth quarter fundraising haul tell the big story: in a single three month period, the campaign raised nearly $35 million from more than 1.8 million donations.
Those top-line numbers are YUGE — but the key details of exactly who gave are just as important:
• 300,000 FIRST-TIME DONORS — A POWERFUL SIGN OF GROWTH: Naysayers have for months tried to construct a narrative about a Bernie 2020 campaign that has no potential for growth, and only has a small group of supporters. The numbers tell the opposite story: in addition to hundreds of thousands of donations from previous donors, Bernie 2020 received contributions from nearly 300,000 first-time donors — that’s roughly the same amount of total donors Pete Buttigieg had in the quarter. In all, Bernie 2020 received donations from 40,000 new donors on the final day of the quarter. First-time donors accounted for 25% of Bernie’s donations throughout the quarter.
• BERNIE’S BIG DONOR GROUPS ARE WORKERS: Pete Buttigieg may be Wall Street’s favorite candidate, and Joe Biden may have a super PAC and may have the most donations from billionaires — but the data show that workers are fueling Bernie’s campaign. Indeed, teacher” was the most common occupation of Bernie’s’ fourth quarter donors — and the five most common employers were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the United States Postal Service and Target.
• ONLY 100% GRASSROOTS FUNDED CAMPAIGN: Unlike Buttigieg, Bernie does not rely on money from Wall Street moguls in a wine cave. Unlike Biden, Bernie did not receive money from 44 billionaires who were promised “nothing would fundamentally change.” Bernie 2020 remains the only 100% grassroots-funded campaign, and the only leading campaign to accept no money from billionaires.
Bern after reading,”
The second note from Gustavo. ” The “new, blue Orange County is a cause celebre among Democratic presidential candidates. Vermont Sen.Sanders has addressed cheering Disneyland Resort employees…
…Lesser known is the ongoing fight between progressive and moderate Democrats in Orange County for the party’s soul.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-02/orange-county-democrats-progressive
Gustavo still shows absolutely no charity towards Dr. Jose Moreno, who fought many of the battles that now celebrates. Too bad that he was an impediment to change when he ran the Weekly.
Claudio got to have his say although it was a little hard to figure out. I think he was saying that last year progressives like you and I should have known intuitively that he was a secret progressive mole running on a slate with people like Bruce Bauer and blessed by Correa and Daly. Didn’t get the memo!
The weird thing is Gustavo’s even publishing that comment. Maybe they’re buddies. That would explain a lot.
Editors, please fix the link in my previous comment. Thanks.
No need; it got me to the story