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Bernie Sanders and Danny Glover Join Saturday March on Mississippi
AFL-CIO ^ | 3/02/2017 | Kenneth Quinnell

Posted on 03/02/2017 4:42:21 PM PST by mdittmar

On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and actor Danny Glover will join the March on Mississippi in order to protest a pattern of civil rights abuses against the company's predominantly African American workers. Also joining the march are Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, Sierra Club President Aaron Mair, hundreds of workers, civil rights leaders and social justice advocates. The march will end at Nissan's Canton factory, and the marchers will demand that the company start respecting its workers’ right to vote for a union free from fear and intimidation.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aaronmair; canton; cornellbrooks; cornellwilliambrooks; glover; mair; naacp; nissan; sanders; sierraclub; unions
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Well,hillary lost big,looks like the afl-cio now picks bernie over warren;)

This is so fun to watch.

1 posted on 03/02/2017 4:42:21 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Perhaps there isn’t a union because the workers do not want a union.


2 posted on 03/02/2017 4:46:35 PM PST by dforest
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To: mdittmar

more marches...yeah!!


3 posted on 03/02/2017 4:46:54 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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To: mdittmar

What if Nissan closes the plant and builds those vehicles elsewhere?


4 posted on 03/02/2017 4:46:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mdittmar; Fred Nerks

The racial extortion squad is still on the peowl, How long will it take before the Alawishius Sharpdome, racial shakedown artist in chief, appears..

The corporation will be forced to pay Sharpton millons of dollars to hire his men to “train” the alleged offenders in racial sensitivity awareness ( this is fascism.)

What an effing travesty these wayward unAmerican biatches truly are.Liberal fascists everyone.


5 posted on 03/02/2017 4:48:40 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well,I guess those “predominantly African American workers” would be out of a job.but unions and dems don’t care about that.


6 posted on 03/02/2017 4:52:35 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Good grief! They’re trying to relive the 60’s.


7 posted on 03/02/2017 4:53:03 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: mdittmar

The whole time I lived in Mississippi I worked in sales because the “regular” jobs paid so little.


8 posted on 03/02/2017 4:54:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: mdittmar
There's nothing the people of Mississippi appreciate more than rich liberal strangers from way up north coming to Mississippi to tell the natives how to run their state. Hey, how y'all!
9 posted on 03/02/2017 4:55:11 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: mdittmar
Picture from protest march.


10 posted on 03/02/2017 5:00:22 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Candor7
"Glover added:

Nissan spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year marketing itself as a socially responsible carmaker, even going so far as to brag about its appeal to African American car buyers. Yet behind the scenes, the company is violating the rights of the African American workforce who makes those cars. We’re speaking out because Nissan can’t have it both ways, and it’s time for car dealers and customers alike to understand the product they’re selling and buying doesn’t fit the image of what Nissan claims it’s producing."

I guess that's the sort of BS that loses people their jobs and the company ultimately decides to manufacture its product elsewhere...

11 posted on 03/02/2017 5:04:30 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: Blue Turtle

Mississippi? Really? Is this on the Edmund Pettus Bridge? FGS!
Get ova yaselves!


12 posted on 03/02/2017 5:09:48 PM PST by acapesket (all happy now?)
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To: Fred Nerks

I guess that’s the sort of BS that loses people their jobs and the company ultimately decides to manufacture its product elsewhere...>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly Right.

I can hardly wait to see Nissan’s new pimped out gangstah line
of Mo’Fo’ vehicles, manufactued strictly fo’ de black man!

What you point out is what is called Plantation Field Hand thinking. They thibk they are still on the plantations which have not existed for 150 years and now “we gots owah own cars and trucks!”

They are dividing America instead of uniting it.And Americans will not be putting up with race baiting extortion
much longer.


13 posted on 03/02/2017 5:11:59 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: mdittmar
Can they march into the Mississippi?
14 posted on 03/02/2017 5:14:00 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: UCANSEE2

Pretty obvious who the Republicans are.

For the most part, they’re the better looking ones...

I used to enjoy his rolls in movies.

He sure took care of that.


15 posted on 03/02/2017 5:18:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: mdittmar

I guess Danny Glover is finished fixing Venezuela. Watch out Mississippi, he’s going to fix you next.


16 posted on 03/02/2017 5:19:08 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: mdittmar
the marchers will demand that the company start respecting its workers’ right to vote for a union free from fear and intimidation.

...and they're going to do this through the use of fear and intimidation against the company.

17 posted on 03/02/2017 5:19:33 PM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Candor7

Pathetic little hand-maidens of Lenin. Their brains have been scrambled with the doses of communism liberally fed to them from when they were in the cradle. No amount of money nor fame will ever wash it away. They are permanently indoctrinated. We won’t see the last of them until they are six foot under.
And then there will be their offspring to contend with, but hopefully the poison of marx will be somewhat diluted...the politics of envy on the left are like chicken-sh+t...a little goes an awfully long way...


18 posted on 03/02/2017 5:19:56 PM PST by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum)
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To: mdittmar

For people that are a protected class, they sure do bitch a lot about everything.


19 posted on 03/02/2017 5:20:44 PM PST by Trillian
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To: dforest

I know more than one person who works for Nissan, in one of their southern plants, and they pay very well, have good insurance and benefits. Nissan doesn’t have to have a plant in Canton, MS. There are plenty of other communities in the south that are not 80% African, and would LOVE to have those jobs.


20 posted on 03/02/2017 5:51:09 PM PST by blackbetty59
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