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Feel The Bern, San Diego! March 22 Live Blog & Social Media Round Up

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bern rally 6I’m giving up my daily space at San Diego Free Press to the masses today. Starting at 9am or thereabouts I’ll do regular updates with All Things Bernie. I’ll stop posting at about 9pm, rolling the best of the best into tomorrow’s column.

I need your help! If you hear something on the radio, see it in social media, witness something in the streets or see a worthy story on the web, sent it my way. I’ll distill the best of, do rumor control, fact check if needed and give you credit if you want it.

I want links, tweet, photos, you name it. This is how we beat the mainstream media when it comes to covering Bernie. Tweet me @dougporter506 or hashtag #SDBern,  or post to SDFP’s Facebook page. You can send emails to Contact@SanDiegoFreePress.Org
Let’s Do This!
PS– Be positive! This is about Bernie Sanders and San Diego. Save your #NotHillary for Facebook or wherever.

Bernie in the House

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This is the kind of thing that scares Republicans

Photo By Mark Lane

Photo By Mark Lane

Sometimes tweets get noticed even when they don’t spell my name right… (I know, autocorrect..)

The doors are open at the Convention Center

Sarah Saez posted this photo collage on Facebook

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Reader Contribution- Jay Powell, Feelin’ the Bern

Bernie Sanders is the 21st Century political voice of 20th Century Buckminster Fuller.

Buckminster fuller play adI had the opportunity last Saturday to attend the play “R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE”  on the Lyceum Stage at the SD Repertory Theatre. There is an excellent review by James Hebert in the SD Union Tribune, Sat, March 19, 2016 which gives the schedule of the run thru April 3.  I highly recommend this play.

Fuller is known by most as the inventor of the geodesic dome, but his legacy is far beyond that accomplishment.  Ron Campbell who debuted the original version 16 years ago at the Rep does an extraordinary job of essentially channeling the Bucky Fuller of the 1970’s for 140 minutes in this one man show.

Beyond his talk about humans as “pattern integrities” and the certainty that we have enough resources to provide for all on  planet Earth,  his geopolitical views are well expressed by Campbell.  Fuller called the CIA “Capitalism’s Invisible Army” invented by Wall Street lawyers to exploit the earths resource’s for controlled profits at the expense of the general human welfare.  In spite of this challenge and reality, he inspires and leaves the audience with a profound sense of hope, charging them to do their best to counter these regressive forces.

It would be fascinating to have Bernie enter into a discussion with Ron channeling “Bucky”  at the event tonight at the Convention Center event.

Thanks for opening your column to all of us Bucky fans feeling the Bern!

On The Frontlines (The People’s Correspondents)

All is calm, but there is quite a big crowd at the Civic Center

Big Crowd waiting Bernie

Photo by Mark Lane

 

Via Mark Lane, 9 am Line at the Convention Center

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Mid-Day spirit at the Civic Center

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Morning Rally at the Community Concourse

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Here’s NBC7 video on the march through downtown

A little further back in line... via SDFP staff

A little further back in line… Photo by Robb Lane

Bernie Events

Bern VotingSan Diego March To A Future To Believe In Rally- 10:30 am

We will meet at the San Diego Civic Center Concourse, and march to the Convention Center, via 4th and 5th avenues. Bring any Bernie Bling you have to show our support for Bernie. The march is expected to last about 3 hours. More info

A Future to Believe In Rally in San Diego – Doors Open at 5pm

Bernie Sanders for a rally in San Diego, California at the Convention Center.This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Admission is first come, first served. This event is booked up.

For security reasons, please do not bring bags and limit what you bring to small, personal items like keys and cell phones. Weapons, sharp objects, chairs, and signs or banners on sticks will not be allowed through security. Parking available in garage on-site for a fee. Carpooling is strongly encouraged. The San Diego Trolley has two stops directly in front of the convention center at Harbor Drive/First Avenue and Harbor Drive/Fifth Avenue.

Registering Voters at the Naturalization Ceremony    

Wed, March 24 – Show up 9:30 for set up and training.
3rd Ave and B Street
In Plaza near Civic Theatre (More Info)

Every month there is a ceremony for new citizens. We want to welcome them and register them to vote for Bernie Sanders. Please join us. We need volunteers to help us. We will have our Bernie cut out so people can take photos w/him. It would be nice if someone would help with that.

We need people to hand out fliers about Bernie to all the people in line at 7:30. We will have registration orientation at 9:30 a.m. for training on how to accurately assist someone in filling out the forms. We don’t want any forms to be rejected. We are grassroots. Please bring some pens, clipboards, folding chair.

Bernie Phone Banks (Click on the Date for more info)

Mar 24, 2016 4pm (Every Thursday)
“TALKING EQUALITY” VOTER ORGANIZING SPACE (FORMERLY BALBOA PARK INN) (San Diego, CA)

Mar 26, 2016 2pm (Every Saturday)
“TALKING EQUALITY” (KELLY KING’S VOTER ORGANIZING SPACE; USED TO BE BALBOA PARK INN) – NEAR ZOO SAN DIEGO, CA 92103 (San Diego, CA)

Mar 27, 2016 2:00pm (Every Sunday)
“TALKING EQUALITY” (KELLY KING’S VOTER ORGANIZING SPACE; USED TO BE BALBOA PARK INN) – NEAR ZOO SAN DIEGO, CA 92103 (San Diego, CA)

Mar 29, 2016, 5-8pm, Sarah Saez, United Taxi Workers Host
4265 Fairmount Avenue (San Diego, CA)Suite 140

Mar 30, 2016 Noon City Heights Phone Banking for Bernie
2747 SNOWDROP STREET (San Diego, CA)

 

Doug Porter

Doug Porter

Doug Porter was active in the early days of the alternative press in San Diego, contributing to the OB Liberator, the print version of the OB Rag, the San Diego Door, and the San Diego Street Journal. He went on to have a 35-year career in the Hospitality business and decided to go back into raising hell when he retired. He won numerous awards for his columns from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Doug is a cancer survivor (sans vocal chords) and lives in North Park.

Comments

  1. thank you Bernie,

    – for your courage & commitment to the people – not the 1%ers selfish & corrupt machine.

    Vaya con Dios

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