Civil Rights Leaders' Meeting with Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders discusses the economy, voting rights, and the criminal justice system during a conference with civil rights leaders in Washington D.C.

link to NYTimes with more info:
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/18/bernie-sanders-takes-his-turn-meeting-with-civil-rights-leaders/

The black leaders at the meeting included Marc H. Morial, the chief executive of the National Urban League; the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network; Cornell William Brooks, president of the N.A.A.C.P.; Melanie L. Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; and Benjamin L. Crump, president of the National Bar Association and a supporter of Mrs. Clinton. The actor Danny Glover, who has endorsed Mr. Sanders, and Mr. Sanders’s wife, Jane, accompanied the senator. <snip>

Also sitting down with Mr. Sanders were Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund; and Janice Mathis, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women.

[berniepdx420]

1. Is there more ???

[Duckfan]

2. In my mind it has to be a no-brainer for people fighting for the right to vote

to support Senator Sanders--a man who has been in the trenches on this since the 60's.