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Town Hall Citizen platform and Bernie's No Kings speech

Everything Bernie said yesterday in his No Kings speech is covered in our platform

Town Hall Citizen platform and Bernie's No Kings speech

Bernie spoke at the No Kings rally in D.C. yesterday.

Bernie spoke to what he's for, which is what he's been saying over and over at his Fight Oligarchy rallies this past summer.

Everything he spoke to is covered in the Town Hall Citizen agenda. Of course it is, Bernie was a big inspiration for starting Town Hall Citizen.

  1. A good paying job, good education, good and affordable housing
  2. Clean and healthy environment - clean air, food, and water
  3. Medicare For All
  4. Free speech
  5. Publicly funded elections
  6. Public banking
  7. Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies
  8. Economic protection during sickness, accident, old age, or unemployment
  9. Department of Peace
  10. Fighting climate violence and pandemics

Here's the video clip and the transcript.

37:52
"My fellow Americans, we are the greatest country in the history of the world. And
when we stand together and don't allow demagogues to divide us up, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish".

#5. Publicly funded elections
"Yes. Yes. We can create a vibrant democracy by ending Citizens United and not allowing billionaires to buy elections".

#3. Medicare For All
"Yes, we can join the rest of the industrialized world and guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child as a human right".

#1. A good paying job, good education, good and affordable housing
"Yes, we can build millions of units of low income and affordable housing and
allow our younger generation to enjoy the American dream and own a home of
their own".

"Yes, we can make public colleges and universities tuition free and have the best child care and public school system in the entire world".

#8. Economic protection during sickness, old age, or unemployment
"Yes, we can expand Social Security so that every senior in our country can retire with dignity".

#1. A good paying job, good education, good and affordable housing
#7. Freedom from unfair competition and monopolies

"Yes, we can raise the minimum wage to a living wage and guarantee every worker the right to join a union".

#10. Fighting climate violence and pandemics
"Yes, we can lead the world in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels and create millions of good jobs as we save the planet".

#4. Free speech (freedom of speech is also freedom of expression) https://legaljournal.princeton.edu/the-first-amendment-and-the-abortion-rights-debate/
"Yes, we can guarantee that every woman in this country has the right to control
her own body".

#9. Department of peace
"Yes. Yes. We can have a foreign policy that guarantees that never again will
American taxpayer dollars be used to starve children in Gaza or any place".
40:39 Applause

When I ask people if they agree with the platform 99% say yes. The only disagreement I've ever heard is that some issue that's important to them like legalized marijuana or immigration rights isn't specifically included. I then explain if we elect politicians who'll run on this platform, their important issues not specifically written will happen too.

tty next time,