Bernie Sanders Rallies in the South Bay

SAN PEDRO, CA - On his sixth straight day of Southland campaigning ahead of the June 7 California primary, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders rallied supporters in San Pedro on Friday, echoing his call for a national political upheaval.

"I tell you it is too late for establishment politics and establishment economics," Sanders told the union-dominated crowd of about 1,000 people at the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. "We need a political revolution."

Sanders used the speech to again criticize presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump and criticize corporate greed.

"A moral economy is not an economy where CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, ship our jobs abroad and take away health care from their workers," he said.

Sanders added later, "Our ideas are the future of this country. Let's stand up. Let's fight for them."

Sanders also met at Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Baldwin Hills with anti-fracking activists and residents of Porter Ranch who had to flee their homes because of a natural gas leak.

"The idea that children are coming down with one ailment after another because they're breathing chemicals in the air is clearly not acceptable to me," Sanders said.

The 74-year-old Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who would be the nation's first Jewish president, was also interviewed on the HBO talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Sanders' opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was in Oakland today for what her campaign described as "a community discussion on breaking barriers and increasing opportunity."

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--City News Service/Photo credit Al Francis