Senator Bernie Sanders to Speak at JP Forum Sunday / Senador Bernie Sanders Hablará el Domingo

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is the longest serving independent member of Congress, and acquired wide notoriety during the 2010 Lame Duck Congress as he spoke for eight-and-a-half hours against the extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

Sanders visits JP on Sunday .

Sanders has put his exhortation to the Senate in book form under the title THE SPEECH: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class, set for publication this month, with an e-book edition already available.

Sanders' filibuster attracted so much attention that the online traffic crashed the Senate's servers.

"The very strong response to my speech tells me that there is a hunger all over America for a discussion about economic truths," Sanders said in a statement released by Nation Books, his publisher. 

Sunday Sanders will talk about “the serious economic challenges facing the country,” said Phil Fiermonte, Sanders' campaign director, in phone interview with Patch.

“We have a crisis of unprecedented proportions, extremely high unemployment combined with under-employment (people who want to work full-time but can't get a full-time job), and people who have given up looking for a job. If you take all those segments together we have at least 17 percent unemployment, and much more in minority communities,” added Fiermonte.

Sanders will also touch on the unprecedented attacks on Social Security, and will explain how Social Security has been an extraordinarily successful program in keeping senior citizens out of poverty, and why there is no reason for it not to continue to be successful in the future.

Sanders will also talk about the aggressive conservative attacks on the public safety net: Medicaid, Medicare, education, and how, if they succeed, there will very negative consequences for people all over the country.

Sanders will speak about solutions, about the need to organize and mobilize to oppose the very effective right-wing media campaign.

All-in-all it promises to be a very interesting Sunday afternoon. The at begins at 3 pm.

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El Senador de Vermont Bernie Sanders es el más antiguo miembro independiente del Congreso, y adquirió amplia notoriedad durante la sesión empatada del Congreso en 2010 cuando habló durante 8 horas y media en contra de la extensión de los cortes de impuestos para los más ricos de la época de Bush.

 El Senador Sanders ha puesto su exhortación al Senado en forma de libro bajo el título EL DISCURSO: Una Obstrucción Histórica a la Avaricia Corporativa y al Declive de la Clase Media, a publicarse este mes con una edición electrónica ya disponible.

La obstrucción del Senador Sanders atrajo tanta atención que el tráfico en línea derrumbó los servidores del Senado. “La fuerte respuesta a mi discurso indica que existe un hambre en toda América por una discusión sobre la realidad económica,” dijo Sanders en una declaración publicada por Nation Books, su editor.

El domingo el Senador hablará sobre los “serios desafíos económicos confrontando al país,” dijo Phil Fiermonte, Director de Campaña de Sanders, en entrevista telefónica con el Remiendo. “Estamos atravesando una crisis de proporciones sin precedentes, desempleo extremadamente alto combinado con sub-empleo (gente que desea trabajar tiempo completo pero no encuentra trabajo), y gente que a desistido de buscar trabajo. Todos estos segmentos combinados arrojan un desempleo de por lo menos 17 %, y mucho más en comunidades minoritarias,” declaró Fiermonte.