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Hear the Bern

42 - Right Now (w/ Jeffrey Sachs & Ari Rabin-Havt)

Hear the Bern

Bernie 2020

News Commentary, News, , Politics

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

With less than a week until Iowa caucuses, Briahna sits down with economist Jeffrey Sachs to talk about the decades-long project to ward off popular, commonsense policies like Medicare for All. Then, deputy campaign manager Ari Rabin-Havt offers a glimpse behind the scenes of a Bernie rally. Jeffrey Sachs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs (https://twitter.com/jeffdsachs) Ari's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onajourneywithbernie/ (https://www.instagram.com/onajourneywithbernie/)

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0:00.0

I'm going to ask you to be open to getting to know the human being to your left and your right.

0:06.4

The human being that you've been fighting for, the human being that has been fighting for you,

0:10.8

the human beings who form the most powerful movement and the history of

0:15.1

electoral politics.

0:17.0

If you've ever wondered where your next meal might come from, please squeeze your hand. If you've ever been harassed or cat called as you walk

0:25.8

down the street, please squeeze your hand. If you've ever fallen ill and self-medicated or ignored

0:32.4

it because the bill might hurt more than the ill, please

0:35.3

squeeze your hand. If you've lost the job, please squeeze your hand. If you've ever been assaulted,

0:45.0

please squeeze your hand. If you've ever sat in a Planned Parenthood or a free clinic waiting alone, please squeeze your hand.

0:51.0

If you've ever been pulled over by a police officer and prayed to God

0:54.8

that you make it home please squeeze your hand. If you believe that there is

0:59.6

nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come that the long arc of the universe

1:04.3

always bends towards justice please squeeze a hand. If you are ready to work

1:09.2

every day as a creator of your life to do everything in your power to build a political revolution

1:14.8

that will shake the very foundation of this empire, please squeeze a hand.

1:22.4

Now raise them. Now repeat after me power. Power.

1:26.0

Transformation and miracles.

1:30.0

We want it. We need it. We got to have it right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. Right now. Right now.

1:40.0

Right now. Right now.

1:43.0

Right now. Powell Jr. changed the course of American history forever with a memo.

2:07.0

You see, in the decades before, America had become more equal at a faster rate than perhaps at any other time in our country's short history.

2:16.2

In 1925, A Philip Randolph founded the first African American labor union, the Brotherhood of

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