Senator Bernie Sanders referred to legislators from Pennsylvania during the May Day rally in front of the town hall on Thursday.
“I am here in Pennsylvania to tell each member of the Pennsylvania delegation that if they vote for tax breaks for billionaires and cuts Medicaid, nutrition and education, we will throw them out of work, “said Sanders (I., VT.) To a roaring crowd at a rally organized by Philadelphia Afl-Cio.
The Thursday performance of the former presidential candidate “For employees, not billionaires of May Day Rally” was the first of the three -day swing through Pennsylvania when he visits the country during his route “Fighting oligarchy”.
High white characters on each side of the stage said “for people, not billionaires” and “billionaires will define our lives” with paintings of money with flames around him.
Sanders gives speeches throughout the country in opposition to the program of President Donald Trump, attracting gigantic crowds. His performance in Philadelphia appears on a particularly significant day of workers’ movement.
Sanders said May Day, the day when organized work groups organize rallies around the world for employees’ rights, is a “saint” holiday.
“All over the world, in dozens of countries, employees oppose oligarchy and demand a world in which all people have a decent standard of living,” he said to Cheers.
An independent senator who with democrats He praised the work of the trade union movement over the years, which, as he said, are fighting the work of children, long weeks of work and perilous working conditions, and helped to lead to the creation of overtime, social insurance and medicare.
“May Day, as you know, was established in 1886, and employees became very powerful forces and said:” You know what? We don’t want to be slaves. We don’t want to work 60, 70 hours a week. We want an eight-hour day, “said Sanders, who did not really apply for a democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020.
He said that you should still do work to discriminate against the workforce and collective rights. He called for the Congress to adopt the right to the organization of the Act, which would allow more employees to unions, and said that there are millions of employees who want to join unions, but cannot because of the illegal behavior of the corporation.
“If we intend to build a movement that we must take power in this country, we must develop a commercial movement in this country,” he said.
Sanders spoke for about 20 minutes, touching a number of policies he supports, including raising a minimum wage, ensuring free public education, Medicare for everyone and expanding social insurance. She passed 1% of the wealth in the country and the inequality in the country he had talked about for years.
During his speech from outside the rally, you could hear the songs of “Free Palestine”, and one disturbance spoke to the megaphone, sitting on the statue during Sanders’s speech, but it was not clear what he said.
Several people in the crowd stopped the giant Palestinian flags in front of the stage where Sanders spoke, and the translator standing on the stage behind the senator wore Keffiyeh and a shirt with the inscription “Free Palestine”.
Sanders did not turn directly to the flags, but criticized Congress for the amount of military assistance sent to Israel and spoke against the role of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the war in Gaza.
“We can reduce military expenses and build 5 million units of low-income apartments and inexpensive apartments,” he said.
Sanders criticized Trump, Elon Musk and other billionaires and argued that the United States became an oligarchic society under the Trump administration.
“The American nation says” no “, not for Trump’s authoritarianism, not for Trump’s kleptocracy and not for tax breaks for billionaires,” he shouted, and the crowd roared: “No!” in response.
He also called for democratic colleagues in the congress to “stop defending the status quo”.
Nicole Parisano, 29, a resident of Philadelphia, who works as a data analyst at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia, agrees with this sentiment.
Dressed in a red coat and a mask depicting women The story of a maid, Parisano said that activists accepted to support abortion rights said that democratic leadership in Congress must do more to resist Trump.
She said it was the “honor” that Sanders decided to be in Philadelphia on the May day and that it was the right choice because of the rich history of America in the city.
“I just hope that we can meet the founding fathers and regain our freedoms from the corrupt government,” she added.
Sanders also referred to the history of Pennsylvania in his speech.
“We all remembered that when Abraham Lincoln was in Gettysburg, here in Pennsylvania, and looked at the battlefield, where a few days before the death of 20,000 Union soldiers were injured,” he said.
“He looked and he said:” Our vision of the future of America is the government of the people, by the people and the people, “he said when the crowd spoke with him.
