Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
Joined February 2009
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Walt Whitman, Edith Wharton, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Ernest Hemingway, Miles Davis, Meryl Streep, Martin Scorsese, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Every public school in America should be a palace of a culture, learning and the arts. The fact that that seems to anyone like a pipe dream is a measure of how disconnected we are as a society from the values that should guide us.
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AVATAR director @JimCameron talks about our lost connection to nature, what he refers to as “nature deficit disorder” on this week’s podcast.
Watch: youtube.com/JdhWN-iG3eY
Listen: spoti.fi/3eQDMOZ
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We need a total paradigm shift. The root causes of problems are so systematically neglected that more of our resources are spent managing chaos rather than on creating solutions.
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The majority of our educational funding is still based on property taxes. The denial of a world-class education to every child is a passive form of oppression.
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When govt functions more as advocate for short term corporate profits than advocate for humanitarian values, how is the well-being of children to compete for attention?
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The greater the economic hardship in a family, the more likely it is that a child grows up bearing the scars of that trauma. This ends up costing the society much more than if we had just promoted & guaranteed economic justice to begin with.
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What’s delusional is thinking we can continue the way we’re going and not face consequences so humongous they will overwhelm our capacity to absorb.
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No we should not run this country like a business, we should run it like a loving and functional family.
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Kids aren’t old enough to vote so they represent no constituency; not old enough to work so they have no financial leverage. Their needs r neglected on levels we don’t even begin to grapple with as a society; we see the consequences all around us but refuse to address their cause
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. We need a cabinet level Department of Children and Youth to even begin to address the trauma, abuse & neglect of tens of millions of American children.
USA Today: Foster care children starved, beaten, molested, Florida reports show usatoday.com/in-depth/news/i…
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Important information.
When I graduated college in 1968, the typical corporate CEO got 20 times the pay of the average worker.
Today, the ratio is 320-to-1.
Here's my testimony from @SenSanders' Budget Committee hearing on how to tackle America's crisis of widening income and wealth inequality:
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