Diehard Activists Keep A Flame Berning

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July 27, 2016 - As Democrats from around the country nominated Hillary for Clinton for president with the help of former rival Bernie Sanders, Bruce Carter was out in the street declaring, “Bernie or BUST!”

The Texan father and husband said he would have gone through the motions of voting for Hillary Clinton a few months ago. Instead, he decided to rally fellow black voters behind the banner of a candidate no longer running at an emotional rally at Thomas Paine Plaza Tuesday afternoon, coinciding with Clinton’s formal nomination inside the hall at the Democratic National Convention.

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Day 1 DNC Diary: Cracks Beneath “Unity”

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July 26, 2016 - While protesters marched the downtown streets here Monday, decrying the presidential nomination system as rigged and nominee Hillary Clinton as corrupt, officials took the stage at the opening of the Democratic National Convention a few miles south and proclaimed, one by one, the virtues of a unified party.

The words didn’t always match the reality on the ground — in the street, or event in the halls of the Wells Fargo Center.

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Criminal Justice Reformers Rally For Sanders

Barbara Fair (Thomas Breen photo)

April 25, 2016 - A day before Bernie Sanders drew over 10,000 supporters to a mass rally on the Green, some of his local backers held a small rally of their own to highlight theirs and the campaign’s call for criminal justice reform.

Criminal-justice reform activist Barbara Fair said she organized the rally outside the federal courthouse on Church Street Saturday to draw attention to the differences between Hillary Clinton’s and Sanders’ histories and approaches to criminal justice reform. Sanders and Clinton face off in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary in Connecticut.

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1 Quotation, 2 Interpretations

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February 2, 2016 - Milford, N.H. — Robert Reich offered a powerful argument for voting for Hillary Clinton for president — or else for voting for Bernie Sanders.

On back to back days on the New Hampshire campaign trail, supporters of each Democratic presidential candidate invoked a quotation from the former U.S. labor secretary and current UC Berkeley professor to make their case.

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