Posted on 07/27/2016 7:07:15 PM PDT by randita
Hundreds of Sen. Bernie Sanders' most devoted followers vowed Wednesday to keep their political revolution alive, returning to the streets with renewed energy on the third day of the Democratic National Convention.
For more than six hours at a plaza near City Hall, speakers including dozens of Sanders delegates yelled out to a crowd that swelled to more than 400 people. Despite pleas for unity, including from Sanders himself, many said they would not fall in line.
"This revolution will not end after the DNC!" shouted Gary Frazier, Philadelphia coordinator for the advocacy group Black Men for Bernie, which helped organize the rally. "We will never, ever vote for Hillary Clinton."
Later, at the Wells Fargo Center, more than a dozen protesters were peacefully taken into custody after they refused police orders to stop blocking an exit to the convention area.
Ten protesters were given citations after they zip-tied themselves to a railing inside the Comcast building lobby in protest of corporate media companies. Another small group gathered at Eighth and Market to protest the decision by Baltimore prosecutors to drop the remaining counts against the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray.
Still, after three days of demonstrations that at times grew large and volatile, the tone across the city Wednesday was far more muted, perhaps out of a mixture of disappointment at Clinton's Tuesday nomination and fatigue.
"I think everybody's a little low today," said Andrew English, 29, of Charlotte, N.C., as he sat on a bench beside a friend who was munching on a beet as if it were an apple.
"We all knew . . . Hillary Clinton was going to get the nomination, but we still had our hopes and dreams," English said. "But they were crushed yesterday."
Others were not beaten down.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Sanders backers are COMMUNISTS We will Crush them!! There is no affinity with these parasites. Tell them to go to HELL!!
There was a reason that loser didn’t have a job until he was 40.
Keep up your Revolution! Never vote for the Wicked Witch! Even better, vote for Trump just to spite the DNC.
sent him a message of “Palestine” love! Join me! This kind of human waste should be deported.
I hate to tell these dumb basta*ds,
but Bernie sold them out.
It appears to me that the US Media ....TV, and Radio, is
being taken over........starting tonight.
Things are looking very much like we are entering uncharted territory.
Lol! I literally spit out my drink! So funny
Methinks their Socialist hero turned out to be a Capitalist with a fat check to cash when he gets home to Vermont. They are sadder but wiser than when they came.
I wish they would leave Virgil alone!
Democrats are a boil. Trump has been the lance. Nasty stuff is running everywhere. November will put the sting on it and dry it up.
Take a look at the slideshow within the original article. It is a total circus!
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