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3 Million Calls for Bernie into New York this Weekend!!!

from reddit

Team: we hit our goal—and then some!

Today, Bernie volunteers made over 1.7 MILLION calls into New York, beating yesterday's incredible total of 1.3 million calls, for a weekend total of over 3 MILLION CALLS in our #TakeNYbyPhone weekend! That's over 1 million MORE calls than our original goal of 2 million calls in 48 hours!

Harry Belafonte tells it like it is

The following clip is from a 2005 Town Hall. Included in the guests were Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Belafonte gave an impassioned speech about the ills of the country, and he covers a lot of issues. He is very clear in his message that addresses many of the things we are again (or still) talking about in this primary and election season...11 years later, time enough for some of these issues to have been at least started on.

My Tax Burden

Corporations like to whine about how much they pay in taxes. It is the motivation behind companies like Burger King racing across the Canadian border to devour Tim Horton's just so that BK can wear the butchered pelt and pretend to be a Canadian corporation now, thus qualifying to pay less in taxes.

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