Massachusetts Peace Action proudly announces its endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President

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December 5, 2019

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Massachusetts Peace Action proudly announces its endorsement of Bernie Sanders for President and vows to work hard for his victory in the Massachusetts March 3 Democratic primary and beyond.

“In a crowded Democratic field, Senator Sanders is the leading voice for a foreign policy based on international law, diplomacy and human rights,” said Andrea Burns, co-chair of the Political Committee of Mass. Peace Action (MAPA). “A Sanders administration will work to shift priorities from imperialism abroad to robust social programs, including a Green New Deal, that will contribute to real national security.”

Sanders helped lead the opposition to the Iraq war in 2002, one of the most disastrous foreign policy decisions in American history. He has also voted against ever-increasing military budgets, including every Pentagon budget increase during the Trump presidency. In the Senate this year, he led the successful struggle to pass a War Powers Resolution to end US support for the Saudi war in Yemen, the first time since 1973 that Congress has voted to end a war in progress, although it failed to overturn Trump’s veto. Now he proposes to use US military aid as leverage to push Israel to desist from policies that violate Palestinian human rights. Policies to reduce militarism and war are antiracist. A Sanders Presidency will mean that the US will be killing fewer civilians in wars around the world, most or all of whom would be people of color.

Sanders has repeatedly connected militarism, great power politics, and the climate emergency to call for a major turn towards peace and a livable world. In a July 16 interview with the Washington Post, he said: “As president of the United States what I would do…is go to Russia, go to China, go to Brazil, go to India, and say maybe instead of spending $1.5 trillion every year on weapons of destruction designed to kill each other, maybe we should use those resources to fight our common enemy, which is climate change…That has got to be the goal.”

Sen. Sanders is building a powerful movement to bring about the profound changes he advocates. His rallies begin with movement leaders speaking of the struggles they are waging to propel change. Sanders’s slogan is “Not me, Us,” and at every opportunity he speaks of the need to mobilize the American people to challenge corporate rulers and their lobbies in order to achieve his campaign’s goals. He believes working people must become protagonists in a democratic transformation of the very foundations of our society and economy, not only by voting for him in primaries and in November 2020, but also afterwards, by working for the profound changes we need.

http://masspeaceaction.org/bernie-sanders-for-president-in-2020/