Bernie Sanders To Hold Comeback Rally Across From Nation's Largest Public Housing Complex

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The location, in the shadow of New York’s dirtiest power plant, is a deliberate choice by the senator and his campaign.

By Daniel Marans
10/18/2019 05:31 pm ET

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The “Bernie’s Back” gathering is slated to take place in Queensbridge Park, which is in the shadow of both the country’s largest public housing development and New York’s dirtiest power plant. In a nod to his surroundings, Sanders plans to focus his remarks on expanding affordable housing and lifting up racially diverse, poor and working-class communities like those in the neighboring Queensbridge Houses.

“They’re going to ... try to capture the energy of the housing justice movement here,” said New York state Sen. Julia Salazar, a Sanders backer who unseated a Brooklyn Democrat in September 2018 on the strength of calls for greater tenant protections.

“Queensbridge was a deliberate choice,” a Sanders aide told HuffPost.

“It is a symbolic gesture by Bernie ... saying that this is no longer about being in the heart of Manhattan, this is about the working families in the outer boroughs who have been neglected,” said New York Assemblyman Ron Kim, a Flushing Democrat backing Sanders. “It’s a metaphor for all Americans who feel neglected by Wall Street.”



As Sanders speaks on Saturday, the smokestacks of the Ravenswood Generating Station, a fuel oil and natural gas plant, will tower above the park. Fittingly, Sanders will likely be discussing his twin priorities of fighting climate change and environmental injustice.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-comeback-rally-queens-queensbridge-houses-2020-democratic-presidential-primary_n_5daa140ae4b0f34e3a75619b