Bernie Sanders has lengthy been amassing crowds at his political rallies all through the nation, however he may need drawn his largest viewers but by way of a shock look at Coachella final evening, introducing indie artist Clairo and making an pressing plea to younger folks to “combat for justice.”
The leftist senator from Vermont started his tackle by thanking the “Luggage” singer-songwriter for the invite and introducing Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost, who joined him onstage.
“This nation faces some very tough challenges, and the way forward for what occurs to America depends upon your era,” Sanders informed the jubilant crowd. “Now you may flip away and ignore what goes on, however should you do this, you do it at your individual peril. We’d like you to face up and combat for justice, to combat for financial justice, social justice and racial justice.”
Persevering with on, Sanders referenced POTUS, whose identify elicited robust boos from the viewers. Pausing, Sanders added, “I agree.”
Within the five-minute-long speech, the once-Democratic presidential candidate additionally addressed local weather change, ladies’s reproductive rights, wealth inequality and healthcare inaccessibility.
“Now we have an economic system at the moment that’s working very effectively for the billionaire class, however not for working households,” he mentioned. “We’d like you to assist us to create an economic system that works effectively for everyone, not simply the 1%.”
The senator continued, “Now we have a healthcare system that’s damaged. We’re the one main nation to not assure healthcare to all folks. We’d like you to face as much as the insurance coverage corporations and the drug corporations and perceive that healthcare is a human proper.”
Sanders then launched Clairo on stage, and thanked her for “not solely being in an important band, however for the nice work she is doing,” saying that the musician has “used her prominence to combat for ladies’s rights, to attempt to finish the horrible, brutal struggle in Gaza, the place hundreds of ladies and kids are being killed.”
Within the video and social media posts made by Clairo, the 2 could possibly be seen embracing, along with her affectionately dubbing the second “Berniechella.”
The no-nonsense Sanders, who’s 83, made the looks after an enormous rally additionally that includes New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Los Angeles’ Gloria Molina Grand Park earlier within the day, which drew a crowd of 36,000 who, as he posted to his Instagram story, “got here out to say NO to oligarchy and NO to a rigged economic system.” The 2 will proceed on with their Preventing Oligarchy excursions in Utah at the moment, adopted by stops in Idaho, California and Montana.
