We Stand Together (pics) Saying 20,000 people (live link)"Unbelievable Turnout"

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Sanders Campaign Has An Official Shout-Down Chant For #BlackLivesMatters Protesters

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https://twitter.com/miss_lussier/status/630562720643837952/photo/1
20,000 strong at @BernieSanders rally in Portland.



RT: BREAKING: The biggest rally of the election! 20,000 in #Portland




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John Nichols:Largest crowd of the campaign for @BernieSanders in Portland Oregon.




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Thousands outside
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Outside
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(I think Bernie is President Obama's biggest advocate right now for the Iran agreement)
Sanders talking about his support for Iran deal again. “I believe that war should be the last resort, not the first resort.”

Sen. Sanders: Unbelievable Turnout. Portland you have done it better than anyone else.
This is by far the largest crowd - 20,000 people! Thank U"

apparently there is a white protester, there and Sen. Sanders will be talking to her after his speech, according to twitter
I am a protester," says woman on left. "I am here to shout Black Lives Matter." not shouting it while Sanders talks.
Sanders camp official has told the protester Sen will meet with her after event. An odd thing that she’s in the press area.
Protester is white, says Sanders crowd is too white. Anyway event is going on, she’s not disrupting much.
https://twitter.com/EvanMcSan

[haikugal]

1. That's amazing! Thanks for posting this!

[davidpdx]

2. Thanks for posting those

[SoapBox]

6. Just say'n HEY, davidpdx!

[davidpdx]

14. hi

watching from seoul korea

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Our corporate masters. "Nothing to see here folks, move along"

[olddots]

4. Tomorrow its L.A.

[SoapBox]

5. We Stand TOGETHER!

Isn't that just perfect!

GO Portland!!!

Awesome crowd!

[SheilaT]

7. Wow! Thanks for posting.

I have a son in Portland, and he unfortunately had an Ultimate Tournament this weekend, or I hope he would have been there.

[bbgrunt]

8. wonderful! LOve it.

[aspirant]

9. Maybe Sen Wyden is getting a little antsy

in his senate seat about now. Didn't he say he supports the TPA and TPP because Oregonians are in favor of these deals?

[trueblue2007]

30. SENATOR WYDEN IS A LIAR. I phoned his office 2 times and got put down both times about TTP

Wyden is a corporate pig now and I don't want to vote for him again.

[arcane1]

10. Hell yes!!!!

[L0oniX]

11. Rock'n the house!

[jalan48]

12. Thank you! I'm proud to be an Oregonian this evening.

[passiveporcupine]

13. According to the census bureau,

Portland Oregon only has a 6.5% of blacks. I would not be too concerned about the lack of blacks in the photos.

Oregon used to be very racist, even though there were few blacks here, but times have changed and young people here have not grown up to be racist, because they were never really confronted with it.

Get over it already.

I'm sure on the eastern half of the state you can still find a lot of racists...but not so much in Portland or most of the western half.

[rusty quoin]

15. Yes we have too many here. nt

[passiveporcupine]

16. Not sure what you meant. Too many what? Where?

[smokey nj]

23. I hope you mean too many racists.

You might want to edit your response to clarify what you meant.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Right around the time people were saying Obama couldn't get the white vote there was an ENORMOUS

rally for him here in Portland and it was a vast sea of white faces.

You're right that the lack of non-white faces doesn't mean much except ... well, Portland is largely a white town.

[passiveporcupine]

24. I grew up in the Willamette valley, and there were no blacks in the tiny town I lived in

So I did not grow up hearing people disparaging blacks, even if some of the older people were racist...it just wasn't talked about. What I did hear was disparaging views from my disgusting step-father of Hispanic field workers (migrant workers who moved with the jobs). I now live in another town in Oregon, where we don't have many blacks but lots of Hispanics, and I just don't see racism happening here. But, maybe I just can't see it because I don't think that way.

I've also lived in other states (especially the California Bay Area) where I worked with people of all colors and loved them all and had so many great friends of different ethnicity. I'm really glad that I didn't grow up having to learn how to block out racism learned from my elders. That is just a challenge that no young person should ever have to sift through.

The only racist I even remember as a kid was my preacher, and he may be the reason I'm atheist now. We had a black family in our town (just moving through) and they came to our church. Our preacher (originally from the south) refused to shake the hand of the black father as we all filed out of church after the sermon, and when I saw that, I was just reviled by my pastor. I never wanted to go back to that church.

[AzDar]

17. Our next President... Bernie Sanders!

[WillyT]

18. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[davidpdx]

19. Thanks for the update

Looks like it was a great event. Jealous I couldn't be there with everyone. I sat here watching it on my computer that folds into a tablet. A very upbeat crowd. I know several people who were in the crowd and am waiting to hear back from them on Facebook.

[potone]

20. That was a great speech!

He covered everything from Social Security to student debt plus climate change, institutional racism, broken justice system, health care, and women's rights. Oh, and legalizing undocumented workers. He probably said more, but that's what I remember.

[restorefreedom]

22. holy freakin crap!

no one else is getting these crowds!

go bernie go!

[angrychair]

25. So awesome!

Outstanding turnout. Feel.the.Bern!!!!!

[sabrina 1]

26. Amazing, seriously something is really happening. To see that many people

this early in the campaign. Bernie has touched many people with HIS PROGRESSIVE MESSAGE!

As for the 'white protester' who thinks the crowd is too white (that talking is getting really old btw. I wonder which Think Tank was paid for that?) Maybe is she had removed herself, it would have been just a teeny bit less white.

[Larkspur]

27. Awesome!!!!

This is going to be an exciting primary race. Who'd a thought that an elderly, white Jewish male would attract so many to hear him speak? Only in America!!

[love_katz]

28. So very proud right now.

Go, Bernie!!!!! Wahoo, Portland!. Love my home town.

[handmade34]

29. this is big news!

I checked all major news sites…

[arcane1]

35. But 10 teabaggers prancing in Founding Father costumes is a national story

Funny how that works.

[oregonjen]

31. 3 generations went tonight, my Dad, my daughter and me!

It was an amazing crowd and awesome to see so many like-minded people!!

[artislife]

33. I love this image of you three

Wonderful!

[Ed Suspicious]

32. THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

[Babel_17]

34. Another tremendous turnout

This campaign is starting to drive the news. Pretty soon other candidates are going to be held to this standard of engagement with the electorate.