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March 10, 2020

Team Warren for Bernie Sanders

We, former members of the Warren for President Team, are proud to have worked for a candidate who fights tirelessly for a country that works for all of us. Elizabeth ran a campaign on intersectional policy issues like Medicare for All, a Wealth Tax, a Green New Deal, cancelling student loan debt, providing universal free college, expanding Social Security, legalizing marijuana at the federal level and erasing convictions, and raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Now that Elizabeth has told us that her campaign is concluded, we know that she is considering how to best continue the fight for big, structural change. We respect that process and trust that she, as she always does, will do what is best to advance this movement.

We also understand and respect that many Warren supporters are still processing their feelings as well. We urge them to take care of themselves first and we stand ready to welcome them back into the fight when they are ready.

We, the undersigned former employees and fellows of Warren for President, are staying in the fight for a just and progressive future. We know that we need a bold, ambitious policy agenda for working families, marginalized communities, and our planet. We know that we won’t beat Donald Trump by simply talking about a return to business as usual. We hold these values close to our hearts because we’ve spent months talking about them with community members and volunteers in the field on behalf of Elizabeth Warren.

That’s why the best option for Warren Democrats right now is to support Bernie Sanders for President, in addition to fighting for Democratic victories across the board in Senate, House, and local races.

What are our goals?
1) Work to consolidate those who are ready to jump from Warren to Sanders immediately and build a community to facilitate the transition.
2) Outreach to inspire other former Warren supporters who are not yet ready to support Senator Sanders or considering Vice President Biden.
3) Mobilizing volunteer action for upcoming primaries and other important races using the grassroots networks that we have cultivated with the Warren campaign.
4) Carrying forward Elizabeth Warren’s ideals, including building a broad-based inclusive coalition founded on respect and empowering women and non-binary individuals to run for office.
5) Carrying forward Elizabeth Warren’s policy priorities by encouraging Senator Sanders and all Democratic leadership to adopt her plans, including but by no means limited to, her plan to end Washington corruption, her LGBTQ+ plans, her plans to uplift women of color, and ending the filibuster.

In Senator Warren’s words: “Choose to fight only righteous fights, because then when things get tough — and they will — you will know that there is only one option ahead of you: Nevertheless, you must persist.”

Let’s persist together.

List in formation — and growing! Message @mscottbarth or @aliciastwocents on Twitter to sign on!

Authors:
Alicia Nichols-Gonzalez, Regional Organizing Director (San Diego, CA)
Michael Barth, Field Organizer (Los Angeles, CA)

Signatories:
Marina Sullivan, Organizing Email Team (Boston, MA)
Tisya Mavuram, Fundraising Associate (Boston, MA)
Rodney Smith, Direct Marketing Manager (Boston, MA)
Danie Belfield, Field Organizer (Chico, CA)
Herbert Meisner, Field Organizer (Fairfield, IA / Denton, TX)
Ernie Britt, Deputy Director, Email Organizing (Boston, MA)
Alessandro Clark-Ansani, Field Organizer (Des Moines, IA / Dallas, TX)
Mishelle Arakelian, Field Organizer (Los Angeles, CA)
Sarah Barukh, Mobilization Hub Organizer (Los Angeles, CA)
Ryan Kearney, Field Organizer (Las Vegas, NV)
Raquel Sosa-Sanchez, Field Organizer (Cedar Rapids, IA)
David Guirgis, Field Organizer (Chicago, IL)
Sejal Singh, Policy Fellow (Boston, MA)
Andre Manuel, Legal Fellow (Boston, MA)
Trenton Seubert, Youth Vote Director (IA)
Quemars Ahmed, Field Organizer (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Ari Goldfine, Field Organizer (NV)
Amit Dadon, Field Organizing Fellow (Waterloo, IA)
Matthew Parziale, IT/Operations (Boston, MA)
Victoria Adams, Product Design Lead (Boston, MA)
Elliot Richardson, MA Statewide Campus Organizer / Field Organizer (Cambridge/Boston, MA)
Jack Weller, Email Organizer (Boston, MA)
Rizalina C. Hernandez, Designer (Boston, MA)
Raquel Breternitz, Design Director (Boston, MA)
Isabel Song, Field Organizer (Los Angeles, CA)
Shivani Desai, Field Organizer (Cedar Rapids, IA / Evanston, IL)
Anthony Collins, Mobilization Hub Manager (Boston, MA)
John Mellow, NH State Data Director (Manchester, NH)
Maggie Kennedy, Field Organizer (IA/IL)
Alexandra Benjamin, Field Organizer (Portsmouth, NH / Charlotte, NC)
Nadia Semmar, Distributed Events Organizer (Boston, MA)
Misha Linnehan, Organizer (Hudson, NH / Old Orchard Beach, ME)
Ellen Smith, Organizing Fellow (Denton, TX)
Aeshna Sarkar, Field Organizer (IA/CA)
Ishvaku Vashishtha, Field Organizer (Los Angeles/Orange County, CA)
Kunoor Ojha, National Organizing Director (Boston, MA)
Becca Taylor, Training Associate (San Diego, CA)
Loren Whitaker, Community Organizer (Raleigh, NC)
Isabelle Webber, Iowa for Warren Intern (Iowa City, IA)
Natalie Marquez, Field Organizer (Rio Grande Valley, TX)
Eli Stevens, Intern (Nottingham, NH)
James Harnett, Winter Organizing Fellow (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Helen Brosnan, Northeast Political Director (Boston, MA)
Daniel Tran, Intern (Berlin, NH)
Max Berger, Director of Progressive Outreach & Movement Building (Boston, MA)
Parker Houston, Field Organizer (O’Brien County, IA / St. Louis, MO)
Nura Zaki, Regional Organizing Director (Chicago, IL)
Nelowfar Ahmadi, Field Organizer (IA/CA)
Marcus Ismael, Field Organizer (San Francisco, CA)
Sophia Blake, Organizing Fellow (Indianola, IA)
Nick Jauffret, Organizer (Fort Dodge, IA / Dallas, TX)
Beatriz Martínez-Godás, Distributed Events Organizer/ Mobilization Hub Organizer (New York, NY)
Hanna Haddad, Deputy Data Director (Des Moines, IA)
Travis Suite, Regional Organizing Director (UT)
Sarah Fellman, Regional Special Projects Director/Regional Organizing Director (Council Bluffs, IA/Spokane, WA)
Mason Astill, Field Organizer (IA/UT)
Owen Elrifi, Field Organizer (IA/TX)
Shoshanna Israel, Phones Organizer (Boston, MA)
Molly Broderick, Legal Research Fellow (Boston, MA)
Simon Adams, Regional Organizing Director (Orlando, FL)
Isabella Roman, Field Organizer (Tuscon, AZ)
AC Facci, OK Organizing Director (Oklahoma City, OK)
Jace Ritchey, National Event Organizer (Boston, MA)
Melissa Mejia, Regional Organizer (Nashua, NH/Raleigh, NC)
Mike Litt, Regional Political Director (Las Vegas, NV)
Lucy Stevens, Organizing Assistant (IA)
Santiago Gudino-Rosales, Intern (Las Vegas, NV)
Iram Ali, Senior Content Strategist (Boston, MA)
Emma Friend, Distributed Events Manager (Boston, MA)
Natalie Green, Community Manager (Boston, MA)
Ifrah Asmat, Mobilization Hub Organizer (Austin, TX)
Gowri Buddiga, Field Organizer (Las Vegas, NV / Boulder, CO)
Joel E. Emerson, Voter Contact Program Director (Columbia, SC)
Catie Diaz, Field Organizer (North Liberty, IA / Fort Worth, TX)
Kate Hiltz, Regional Mobilization Director (Boston, MA)
Emma Rebecca Dessau, Video Editor (Boston, MA)

Bernie 2020
March 8, 2020

NEWS: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. Endorses Sanders for President

Will Speak at Event in Grand Rapids
 
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Civil rights icon Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. announced on Sunday that he is endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders for president and will speak today at an event with the senator in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Rev. Jackson’s full endorsement statement is below:

“BLACK FIREWALL” CHANGES THE 2020 CAMPAIGN
Rev. Jackson Endorses Sen. Sanders For President
Statement By Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Grand Rapids, Michigan

The “Black Firewall” has changed the dynamics of the 2020 presidential campaign.  The question is what has the firewall earned?  What will be the return on the black firewall’s political investment?  And what difference will the political contribution that the firewall is making, make in the individual lives of African Americans and in the African American community?
 
When President Abraham Lincoln’s back was against the wall he came up with a meaningful proposition – the Emancipation Proclamation. The issuing of that proposition allowed him to free the “colored troops” to fight to save the Union.  And after the Civil War, the colored troops saving the Union allowed the Union to free the slaves and affirm their citizenship with the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.  What will the firewall mean for the black community under the leadership of Senator Bernie Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden in 2021 and beyond?
 
President John F. Kennedy was slowly gaining concern and understanding of the black community when he was assassinated.  Given LBJ’s background and history it was not easy for the civil rights community to trust him.
 
But under LBJ the black community and the nation got a 1964 Public Accommodations Act, a 1965 Voting Rights Act, a 1968 Opening Housing Act, a War on Poverty, an Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Medicare, Medicaid, an EEOC, Head Start, a functioning U.S. Civil Rights Commission and more.
 
We have a right to ask and expect candidates who benefit from the African American political firewall to deliver what we need under the potential leadership of Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden?
 
With the exception of Native Americans, African Americans are the people who are most behind socially and economically in the United States and our needs are not moderate.  A people far behind cannot catch up choosing the most moderate path. The most progressive social and economic path gives us the best chance to catch up and Senator Bernie Sanders represents the most progressive path.  That’s why I choose to endorse him today.
 
The Biden campaign has not reached out to me or asked for my support.  The Sanders campaign has, and they responded to the issues I raised and the concerns I expressed with the following commitments:

  • Voting rights!  We have a states rights and local control voting system with few national standards that’s allowing states to engage in voter suppression. Senator Sanders and Congressman Ro Khanna will introduce a right to vote constitutional amendment in Congress next week.  The ultimate irony is that after Heller we have a fundamental right to a gun but not a fundamental right to vote in the U.S. Constitution.
  • Senator Sanders will support reforming and renewing an effective U.S. Civil Rights Commission as called for in HR 4.
  • Senator Sanders supports a wealth tax and at least $50 billion targeted to funding HBCUs
  • Senator Sanders agreed to support aggressive funding for Silicon Valley to create venture capital and hiring programs with HBCUs in order to diversify the lawyers and money managers they do business with. Senator Sanders will task Congressman Ro Khanna, who represents Silicon Valley, to push for making the tech economy more inclusive of the black community with concrete deliverables.
  • Senator Sanders supports a single payer health care plan that I advocated in 1984 and 1988 with his Medicare for All plan that will provide every American with universal and comprehensive health care, with extra funds targeting rural and minority hospitals and community health centers.
  • Senator Sanders is committed to a U.S. mediating role in a two-state solution; a mutually negotiated Middle East peace plan that includes Israeli security and Palestinian justice.
  • Senator Sanders supports more trade and fair trade between African Americans, Africa and the Caribbean nations.
  • Senator Sanders has agreed to support a dramatic expansion of Pell Grants, a free public college education and supports forgiving existing student’s loans, where black women have the largest student loan debt.
  • Senator Sanders supports massive new investments in public education generally, including vocational education, but also funding that directly targets the special needs in black, brown and poor communities, and ensuring that every teacher is paid at least $60,000.
  • Senator Sanders supports an end to endless wars; supports reviving the State Department’s role by massively increasing negotiations and diplomatic efforts to bring about peace and justice among the nations of the world; and spending the money saved on rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure and launching a job intensive Green New Deal.
  • Senator Sanders will work to create a market for black farmers, given how they faced historic discrimination and were locked out of the agricultural market.
  • Senator Sanders has committed to putting an African American woman on the Supreme Court.
  • Senator Sanders acknowledges Rev. Jackson’s challenge to put an African American woman on the 2020 Democratic presidential ticket and will give it the highest consideration.  Senator Sanders has also agreed to make sure that black women are in his cabinet and are at the highest levels throughout his administration should he be elected president.
That’s some of what the firewall needs and that Senator Sanders has committed himself to, and that’s why I can enthusiastically endorse Senator Bernie Sanders today.

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Bernie 2020
March 3, 2020

NEWS: Hari Nef Endorses Sanders for President in New Video

WASHINGTON – In a new video released on Tuesday by Bernie 2020, actor and writer Hari Nef announced her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president. Nef cites the senator’s consistency on issues of social justice as her reason for endorsing.

“Bernie is looking at things like health care for all, a living wage for all, jobs for all, education for all,” Nef says in the video. “So much of the power, and the wealth, and the resources are hoarded by a select few who then make all the decisions for everybody else. Bernie is really the only candidate who seems to understand that, and who wants to upend that structure completely.”

The news comes on the heels of endorsements from prominent actors, artists and activists Kirsten Dunst, Eve Ensler, Sarah Silverman and Kristen Wiig. It also comes as fourteen states hold their presidential primaries on Super Tuesday.

The video can be seen here.

Bernie 2020
March 3, 2020

NEWS: Bernie 2020 Receives the Endorsement of Prominent Artists and Actors

WASHINGTON – On Super Tuesday, Bernie 2020 announces the endorsements of Eve Ensler, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig and Sarah Silverman.

Ensler, Dunst, Wiig, and Silverman join a long list of prominent women in the arts and politics who endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2020 bid for president, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Cynthia Nixon, Naomi Klein, Helen Hong and Zephyr Teachout.
 
"All his life, Bernie Sanders has had the courage to speak the truth, even when no one else would," Dunst said. "He stands up for people—all people. Right now we need his courage and conviction to bring justice to this country, to the environment and to the world. It is my honor to join my voice with his, and with voices of the millions of hardworking people who know a better world is possible and are ready to fight for it. Together we will win."
 
“There is a movement happening. People in this country are coming together; people who not only want change, but people who believe in helping and bettering the lives of our fellow Americans,” said Wiig. “There is someone out there who has real solutions. There is someone out there who sees the need for politicians to not work for themselves or a select few, but to work for the people. There is someone who believes it is a human right for every citizen to have health care. There is someone who wants to help young Americans get the education they want and deserve without being burdened with debt as they venture out into the world trying to better their lives, and the lives of others. That person is Bernie Sanders. He is real, and he is truthful, and he is caring. He cares about you. Please, join us in supporting someone who can make great and beautiful changes to this great and beautiful country. Choose community. Choose change. Choose progress.  Choose our planet. Choose kindness. Choose Bernie.”
 
“We don’t need a savior as president; we need someone who empowers a movement around him,” Ensler said. “Bernie’s movement is made up of working people of every race that are the backbone of our country: teachers, farmers, social workers, domestic workers and service workers. It is made up of working women who hold up this country, have been ignored far too long, know what is best for themselves and need us to respect them and trust them. I am standing with Bernie Sanders and the movement to elect him president because he understands the intersections that create violence all around us and has built a multi-generational, multi-racial, multi-issue movement to combat them.”
 
Sarah Silverman, who spoke at a Los Angeles rally drawing thousands of Sanders supporters Sunday, stated, "I’m with Bernie because he fights for equality, not just for his people, but for all people. He has the audacity of wanting to give people who may not have been given the same opportunities as you and me, the same opportunities as you and me.  Bernie cares as much about your grandchildren as he does about his own grandchildren. That is what we need in the White House. We need Bernie."

In a campaign funded by individual, small dollar donations, women make the most contributions to Bernie 2020. In fact, Sanders has received more donations from women than any other Democratic candidate.
 
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Bernie 2020
February 29, 2020

NEWS: Leading Black Scholars, Writers, & Educators Throw Support Behind Bernie 2020 

BOSTON – More than 100 Black scholars, writers and educators on Saturday announced in a joint letter their support of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for President. The group cites the senator’s consistent record, intersectional policy proposals and leadership as reasons they back Sanders.

“A Sanders presidency would go a long way toward creating a safer and more just world,” the letter says. “The commitment to free college education, the elimination of student debt which so many of our students suffer under, and the enfranchisement of incarcerated citizens, are only some of the reasons we have come to this conclusion. His support of a commission to study reparations for slavery is another reason for our decision, as well as his staunch commitment to the needs of poor and working people over the course of his career.”

The letter of support comes on the heels of a recent Reuters poll showing Sen. Sanders leading the national primary field among Black voters, with twenty-six percent saying they support Sanders. 
 
Dr. Barbara Ransby, one of the organizers of the endorsement effort and author of the award-winning biography on civil rights leader, Ella Baker, said that: “It is Black History Month. This is an historic election. We wanted to make our voices heard as scholars who write, research and teach about the struggles of Black people in this country. We feel the platform of the Sanders campaign and the movement his campaign is building offer the best hope for the future in terms of racial, economic and gender justice and for peace.”
 
The text of the letter and the full slate of endorsements is below.

We are Black scholars, writers and educators whose careers have been devoted to uncovering, analyzing, telling the stories, and uplifting the cultures of African Americans and peoples of the African Diaspora. We are also deeply invested in the freedom of our people and the subjects of our research.

In this crucible year of 2020, when so much is at stake, not only for Black people but for all people, and all life on the planet, we feel it imperative that we step outside of our classrooms and go beyond our campuses, to speak out on the current presidential election.
 
After much research and reflection we have concluded that while imperfect, as we all are, Bernie Sanders, the politics he advocates, the consistent track record he demonstrates, and the powerful policy changes he has outlined, if elected, would make the most far-reaching and positive impact on the lives and condition of Black people, and all people in the United States. A Sanders presidency would go a long way toward creating a safer and more just world. The commitment to free college education, the elimination of student debt which so many of our students suffer under, and the enfranchisement of incarcerated citizens, are only some of the reasons we have come to this conclusion. His support of a commission to study reparations for slavery is another reason for our decision, as well as his staunch commitment to the needs of poor and working people over the course of his career.
 
At the same time we respect our friends and colleagues that have chosen the other progressive candidate in the race, Elizabeth Warren, and if she wins the primary, we will support her too. Still, we feel it is important to state flatly that we feel a Sanders campaign can win and a Sanders presidency would be a game changer for the people and communities of which we are a part.
 
While we are not all democratic socialists, we will not be red baited to reject and vilify Bernie Sanders’ views. In fact there is a long and strong tradition of Black socialists in the United States and globally that have fought for racial and economic justice, from the great scholar and intellectual, W.E.B. DuBois to labor leader, A. Philip Randolph to legendary civil rights organizer, Ella Baker. So, we see Sanders’ commitment to challenging the ravages of racial capitalism as connected to an ongoing and ideologically diverse Black Freedom Movement.
 
We live in perilous but promising times. What we do or don’t do in 2020 in the electoral arena, and beyond, will determine the future trajectory of this country and the world. We invite you to stand with us and support the Bernie Sanders campaign, as one step away from the precipice of fascism and toward a brighter more just future.
 
Note: Titles and institutional affiliations are listed for identification purposes only and in no way reflect any institutional endorsement whatsoever. Signers are acting in their capacity as private citizens.
  1. Beatrice J. Adams, Doctoral candidate, History, Rutgers Unviersity
  2. Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd, J.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Rutgers University
  3. Laylah Ali, Professor of Art, Williams College
  4. Abdul Alkalimat, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  5. Sam Anderson, Center for the Advancement of Black Education
  6. Herman L. Bennett, Professor of History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York
  7. Carwil Bjork-James, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University
  8. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor, Sociology, Duke University
  9. Carole Boyce Davies, Professor of English and Africana Studies, Cornell University
  10. Lisa Brock, Associate Professor of History, Kalamazoo College
  11. Elsa Barkley Brown, Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of Maryland College Park
  12. Nicole A. Burrowes, Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies Department, University of Texas, Austin
  13. Linda E. Carty, Associate Professor, African American Studies, Syracuse University
  14. Rosa Clemente, Professor, Independent Journalist, Producer
  15. Matthew Countryman, Associate Professor, Departments of History and American Culture University of Michigan
  16. Dana-Ain Davis, Professor, City University of New York
  17. Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
  18. Frank Deale, Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School
  19. Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, Ph.D. Student, Michigan State University
  20. James Counts Early, Former Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service Smithsonian Institution
  21. Erica R. Edwards, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
  22. Ashley D. Farmer Ph.D., Assistant Professor, History & African & African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas-Austin
  23. Crystal N. Feimster, Professor, Yale University, African American Studies Department American Studies Program, History Department, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
  24. Jonathan Fenderson, Assistant Professor of African & African-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis and Associate Editor, The Black Scholar
  25. Johanna Fernández, PhD, Department of History, Baruch College, City University of New York
  26. Bill Fletcher Jr., Independent Scholar and Author, Executive Editor, Global African Worker
  27. Tyrone Forman, Professor, African American Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago
  28. Paul Foster, MPA, Emerita Clinical Co-ordinator, Harlem Physician Assistant Program, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, CCNY
  29. Olubukola Gbadegesin, Associate Professor, African American Studies and Art History, Saint Louis University
  30. Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago
  31. Keedra Gibba, Teacher of History and Social Studies, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago
  32. Dayo Gore, Professor, Ethnic Studies and Critical Gender Studies, University of California, San Diego
  33. Cecilia A. Green, Associate Professor of Sociology, Syracuse University
  34. Josh Guild, Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, Princeton University
  35. Sarah Haley, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  36. Darrick Hamilton, Professor and Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University
  37. Michael G. Hanchard, Gustave C. Kuemmerle Professor and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
  38. Diane Harriford, Professor, Department of Sociology, Vassar College
  39. Cheryl I. Harris, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  40. Faye V. Harrison, Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  41. Renee Camille Hatcher, Assistant Professor of Law, John Marshall, University of Illinois at Chicago
  42. Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Professor and Thomas E. Lifka Chair in History, University of California, Los Angeles
  43. Marc Lamont Hill, Professor and the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities and Solutions, College of Media and Education, Temple University
  44. Elizabeth Hinton, Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Harvard University
  45. Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies, University of Houston
  46. Zenzele Isoke, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota
  47. Lynette A. Jackson, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and Black Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
  48. Joy James, Ebenzer Fitch Professor of the Humanities, Williams College
  49. Destin Jenkins, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
  50. Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of Chicago
  51. Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Ph.D., Provost Emerita and Professor of History, Dominican University, Illinois
  52. Tracey Johnson, Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University
  53. Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, University of California, Los Angeles
  54. Ainsley LeSure, Assistant Professor of Politics, Black Studies Advisory Council, Occidental College
  55. La TaSha Levy, Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington-Seattle
  56. R. L’Heureux Lewis-McCoy, Associate Professor, New York University
  57. Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
  58. Sheldon Bernard Lyke, Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law
  59. Minkah Makalani, Director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
  60. Austin McCoy, Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University
  61. Deborah E. McDowell, Alice Griffin Professor of English, Director, Carter G. Woodson Institute, University of Virginia
  62. Erik S. McDuffie, Associate Professor, Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  63. Mireille Miller-Young, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
  64. Quincy T. Mills, Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland, College Park
  65. Leith Mullings, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emerita, Graduate Center, City University of New York
  66. Donna Murch, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
  67. Linda Rae Murray, M.D., MPH, Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
  68. Premilla Nadasen, Professor of History, Barnard College, and President of the National Women’s Studies Association (2018 -2020)
  69. Celia E. Naylor, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
  70. Rosemary Ndubuizu, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Scholar, Washington, D.C.
  71. Mark Anthony Neal, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Duke University
  72. Prexy Rozell Nesbitt, Presidential Fellow, Chapman University
  73. Margo Okazawa-Rey, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair, Mills College & Professor Emerita, San Francisco State University
  74. James Padilioni, Jr, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Swarthmore College
  75. Melina Pappademos, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, University of Connecticut
  76. Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, English, University of Chicago
  77. Tianna S. Paschel, Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  78. Earl Picard, Independent Scholar, Atlanta, Georgia
  79. Steven C. Pitts, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
  80. Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History, Georgia Institute of Technology
  81. Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor, African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies and History, University of Illinois at Chicago
  82. Ismail Rashid, Professor of History, Vassar College
  83. Aisha Ray, Professor Emerita, Erikson Institute
  84. Shana L. Redmond, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  85. Russell Rickford, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
  86. J. T. Roan, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, School of Transformation, Arizona State University
  87. Francesca T. Royster, Professor, DePaul University
  88. Tanya L. Saunders, Associate Professor, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
  89. Kesho Yvonne Scott, Professor Emerita, Grinnell College
  90. Barbara Smith, Independent Scholar, Albany, New York
  91. Lester Spence, Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University
  92. Robyn C. Spencer, Associate Professor, Lehman College, City University of New York
  93. David Stovall, Professor, Black Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
  94. Stacey Sutton, Assistant Professor, Urban Planning & Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago
  95. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Assistant Professor, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University
  96. Ula Y. Taylor, Professor of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  97. Alia R. Tyner-Mullings, Associate Professor, Sociology, Guttman Community College, City University of New York
  98. Melissa M. Valle, Assistant Professor, Sociology and African American Studies, Rutgers University-Newark
  99. Stephen Ward, Department of Afroamerican & African Studies (DAAS), Residential College, University of Michigan
  100. Jakobi Williams, Ruth N. Halls Associate Professor, Indiana University
  101. Naomi R. Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
  102. Hazel Carby, Charles C & Dorathea S Dilley Professor of African American Studies & American Studies at Yale University.
  103. George Yancy, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University
  104. Jasmine K. Syedullah, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Vassar College
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Bernie 2020
February 27, 2020

NEWS: Josh Hutcherson Endorsers Sanders for President

Will Campaign in California This Weekend
 
LOS ANGELES - Activist, actor and producer Josh Hutcherson today endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders for President. Hutcherson will hit the campaign trail for Bernie 2020 this weekend, travelling to California as part of a Students for Bernie College Tour with stops at Santa Monica City College and UC Santa Barbara.

“When I was on the campaign trail in 2016 time after time I saw Bernie inspire hope in everyone he met,” said Hutcherson. “He’s the leading candidate on climate change and getting money out of D.C.. Not only will he be the candidate to beat Donald Trump but he will be the leader we need to meet the challenges we face as a nation and as a global society. It scares me to think about what the future may be like if we don’t start making big changes and Bernie is the person I want to build the platform upon which we can all rise.”
 
Here is the itinerary:
 
Thursday, February 27
11:00 a.m. Canvass with Students for Bernie and Josh Hutcherson
Santa Monica City College, 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
Media interested in covering the event must RSVP.

2:00 p.m. Get Out the Vote with Students for Bernie and Josh Hutcherson
Santa Monica City College, 1900 Pico Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
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4:00 p.m. Get Out the Vote at Universal Studios with Josh Hutcherson
Universal Studios CityWalk, Next to the Mobile Voting Center, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
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Friday, February 28
12:00 p.m. Get Out the Vote with Students for Bernie and Josh Hutcherson
UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
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3:00 p.m. March to the Polls with Students for Bernie and Josh Hutcherson
Ventura County Government Center, 800 S Victoria Ave, Ventura, CA 93009
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
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4:30 p.m. Meet and Greet with Josh Hutcherson
Bernie 2020 Oxnard Field Office, 545 S Oxnard Blvd #120, Oxnard, CA 93030
Information for the public: The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but space is limited so an RSVP is strongly encouraged. Entry is on a first come, first served basis.
 
Media interested in covering the event must RSVP.

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Bernie 2020
January 24, 2020

NEWS: Kendrick Sampson Endorses Sanders for President in New Video

WASHINGTON – In a new video released on Friday by Bernie 2020, actor and activist Kendrick Sampson announced his endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president. Sampson cites the senator’s consistency on issues like criminal justice reform over decades.

“He said what was on his mind and he meant it. And he’d been saying it for decades,” Sampson says in the video. “I have seen him listen and act and that makes me very confident in his consistency, confident in his values, confident in his purpose...and that he’s going to follow it.”

The endorsement comes during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where Miss Juneteenth, Sampson’s latest work, is nominated for Sundance’s Dramatic Competition. The film is one of seven black-lead films that will compete in this year’s festival.

The video can be seen here

Bernie 2020
December 4, 2019

NEWS: Mark Ruffalo Endorses Sanders for President in New Video

WASHINGTON – In a new video released on Wednesday by Bernie 2020, actor and activist Mark Ruffalo announced his endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president. Ruffalo cites the senator’s position on health care, refusing corporate and PAC money, support for a Green New Deal and free college education for all as reasons for his endorsement.

“We need a movement leader,” Ruffalo says in the video. “We need a movement organizer. We need a leader who’s actually one of us, and Bernie is one of us and he’s always been one of us.”

Ruffalo’s endorsement comes days before the premiere of his film, Dark Waters, which tells the true story of an attorney who uncovers a secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations connected to unexplained deaths in a community that had been exposed to deadly chemicals for decades. Sanders is outspoken on the campaign trail about the need to overhaul our nation’s water infrastructure, including a visit to Denmark, SC in May to tour homes where a dangerous chemical was pumped into the community’s water supply.

The video can be seen here.

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