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peacebird

(14,195 posts)
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:23 PM Jul 2015

Former president of CWA endorses Bernie!

http://ourfuture.org/20150701/im-endorsing-and-volunteering-for-bernie?utm_source=progressive_breakfast&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pbreak

Larry Cohen
I’m Endorsing and Volunteering for Bernie!
Three weeks ago, when I ended my third term as president of CWA [Communications Workers of America], I pledged to volunteer to help build what we call the “movement of 50 million for economic justice and democracy.” Today I am announcing that I have endorsed Bernie Sanders for president of the United States and will volunteer to help in his campaign in any way that is useful. Bernie has been there with us every time, fighting for fairness, for environmental justice, for voting rights and getting big money out of politics ... Bernie realizes that workers’ rights in the U.S. remain under attack and near the bottom of the world’s democracies ... This is our chance to build a movement that will not answer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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Former president of CWA endorses Bernie! (Original Post) peacebird Jul 2015 OP
It was a travesty that Cohen was ever president of CWA Gman Jul 2015 #1

Gman

(24,780 posts)
1. It was a travesty that Cohen was ever president of CWA
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 12:55 PM
Jul 2015

And workers at telecoms suffered as a result.

That said, he's not the only retired CWA national officer supporting Sanders.

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