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Showing Original Post only (View all)The House Sit-In for the Vote on Gun Sense has nothing to do with Sen. Sanders. (HRC GP) [View all]
Sen Sanders did not invent non-violent protest. Sen. Sanders is not a key figure in the fight for gun-sense!
Sen. Sanders did not invent crowds outside.
Rep. John Lewis wrote the book, he did not need Sen. Sanders. As a matter of fact Sen. Sanders has not been a key presence in the Filibuster or in the Sit-in this week. Also he did not ask crowds to support the HOUSE Sit-IN!
Here on Rep. John Lewis:
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and civil rights leader. He is the U.S. Representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district, serving since 1987, and is the dean of the Georgia congressional delegation. The district includes the northern three-quarters of Atlanta.
Lewis is the only living "Big Six" leader of the Civil Rights Movement, having been the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), playing a key role in the struggle to end legalized racial discrimination and segregation. A member of the Democratic Party, Lewis is a member of the Democratic leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and has served as a Chief Deputy Whip since 1991 and Senior Chief Deputy Whip since 2003.
Lewis is the only living "Big Six" leader of the Civil Rights Movement, having been the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), playing a key role in the struggle to end legalized racial discrimination and segregation. A member of the Democratic Party, Lewis is a member of the Democratic leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives and has served as a Chief Deputy Whip since 1991 and Senior Chief Deputy Whip since 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(Georgia_politician)
The son of an Alabama sharecropper, and now a sixth-term United States Congressman, John Lewis has led an extraordinary life, one that found him at the epicenter of the civil rights movement in the late '50s and '60s. As Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Lewis was present at all the major battlefields of the movement. Arrested more than forty times and severely beaten on several occasions, he was one of the youngest yet most courageous leaders. Written with charm, warmth, and honesty, Walking with the Wind offers rare insight into the movement and the personalities of all the civil rights leaders-what was happening behind the scenes, the infighting, struggles, and triumphs. Lewis takes us from the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins to the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he led more than five hundred marchers on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." While there have been exceptional books on the movement, there has never been a front-line account by a man like John Lewis. A true American hero, his story is "destined to become a classic in civil rights literature." (Los Angeles Times)
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The House Sit-In for the Vote on Gun Sense has nothing to do with Sen. Sanders. (HRC GP) [View all]
Her Sister
Jun 2016
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Just wait until Sanders is given credit for everything Hillary does as POTUS.
NYC Liberal
Jun 2016
#8
Hillary pushed Bernie to the left on Gun issues. Not far enough but at least he voted with us...
Walk away
Jun 2016
#16
YEAR 2013: Congressman John Lewis adds arrest no. 45 - after Peaceful SIT-IN Capitol
Her Sister
Jun 2016
#25
Yes in 2013 got arrested for a sit-in in front of Capitol to try to advance immigration reform.
Her Sister
Jun 2016
#28
I think that is is ironic that some would credit Senator Sanders with the sit in.
Yonnie3
Jun 2016
#30