Bernie Sanders Unveils Racial Justice Platform

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A second Bernie Sanders campaign event was shut down by protestors this weekend. Meanwhile, the Sanders campaign has been working on a package of laws to combat racial injustice, which it unveiled this week. John Iadarola (Think Tank) and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show Podcast), hosts of the The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

“The platform, which has won praise from several prominent voices in the Black Lives Matter movement, focuses on different forms of violence against people of color in the United States: physical violence from law enforcement and extremist vigilantes, the political violence of voter suppression, the legal violence of the War on Drugs and mass incarceration, and the economic violence of crushing poverty. Sanders lays out several proposals to address each form of violence, from passing “ban the box” laws to prevent hiring discrimination against people with criminal records, to outlawing for-profit prisons, to restoring the gutted protections in the 1965 Voting Rights Act.”*

Read more here: http://thinkprogress.org/election/201…

and here: http://www.salon.com/2015/08/10/black…

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