Todays news from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): Remembering Mandela: Across Vermont and around the world, people are celebrating the life of Nelson Mandela. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was active in the anti-apartheid movement while serving as mayor of Burlington, recalled chants of Free Mandela! ringing through the city during protests, WCAX-TV reported. He said the city divested $1.8 million in pension funds from companies doing business in South Africa. “I think we can learn something from the perseverance and determination of somebody like Nelson Mandela,” Sanders said on The Thom Hartmann Program. Remembering Mandela: Sen. Sanders traveled to South Africa in 1994 to witness Mandelas presidential inauguration. Sanders said Mandela was a powerful force for good in the struggle to dismantle the terrible legacy of apartheid, Vermont Public Radio reported. It was, in a sense, hard for people to believe what they had achieved. These people had been brutalized and terrorized by a white government under apartheid. And to suddenly see their hero, their leader, being sworn in as president of their country was incredible, Sanders told WPTZ-TV. Unemployment: Sen. Sanders welcomed a Labor Department report that put unemployment at 7 percent in November, a five-year low, but noted that real unemployment was 13.2 percent counting those who gave up looking for work and others who had to settle for part-time jobs. On the Thom Hartmann Program on Friday, Sanders also said that he and 31 other senators were working to prevent more than 1.3 million long-term unemployed workers from losing benefits at the end of December. AIDS Protest: Students from St. Michaels College marched down Burlingtons Church Street Friday to the offices of Sens. Sanders and Patrick Leahy to call attention to the fight against AIDS, WCAX-TV and WPTZ-TV reported. The students thanked Sanders for his commitment and work to secure funding to fight the problem. Continue reading here: sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/newswatch/120713
Posted on: Sat, 07 Dec 2013 13:40:11 +0000
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