'The Struggle Continues': Sanders Refuses to Bend the Knee to Establishment

There is so much that I love, that I deeply love and respect, about Bernie Sanders. Today I know that there are some very real similarities between Clinton and Obama that are deeply disturbing, with the promotion of the toxic TPP being just one among many. So Bernie has not caved and violated his own values and wisdom as an Elder, he has not backed down and let go of giving voice to truth and the highest good, he has not relented in standing up to power, he has not given up the fight for a more sane and just and caring world, he is not lying to now pretend that that Clinton's intentions are the same as his. He knows what's at stake. He knows he cannot just shut up and go away and betray the millions of young people and people of all ages who are waking up and coming together and believing that another world is possible. Bernie does not have to read Thomas Frank's latest book "Listen Liberal" to understand how the Democratic Party has been taken over and is not democratic because he's been watching its collapse and take over by Big Money for decades and because he's lived it's toxic sham throughout his fierce fight for the presidency. Yes, Bernie fully knows the extreme danger of a Trump presidency. And he fully grasps the lesser danger, but a danger just the same, that a Clinton presidency poses. His integrity, his platform, his values, his authenticity, his intentions, and the deep roots of what Bernie Sanders stands for and has been fighting for throughout his lifetime are very different than that of Clinton, and obviously light years away from what Trump embodies. If only we Americans would listen, deeply listen and more and more of us would awaken to what is happening. If only. And I grieve that the thought of Clinton as our first woman president fills me with grief. Because she is a woman whose deep feminine is deeply wounded and not a woman who stands strong in the wisdom of the Sacred Feminine. Bernie Sanders is much more connected to the deep feminine within himself that honors and blesses Life than the hawkish Clinton is. And so he fights on with many millions of us who will not back down in illuminating a bigger picture and what is urgently needed and the Great Awakening that calls to us all. What I keep remembering is that the children are counting on us. The children everywhere and of the next seven generations are counting on us today to say NO!, I will betray you no more! ~ Molly

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"We will take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental 

justice to Philadelphia," senator declares

Senator Bernie Sanders arrives at his campaign rally in Santa Monica. (Photo: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times)

By Jon Queally / commondreams.org

Bernie Sanders refused to concede the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination on Tuesday night even as he congratulated his rival Hillary Clinton on her primary wins and thanked his supporters for their determined commitment to the 'political revolution' he has championed throughout the hotly contested primary season.

"If this campaign has taught us anything," he told an enthusiastic and cheering crowd in Santa Monica, California just after 10:30 pm local time, "it has proven that millions of Americans who love this country are prepared to stand up and fight to make this country a much better place."

When Sanders took the stage, and as of this writing, major news outlets had awarded three of the day's six contests--New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota--to Clinton, while Sanders was able to claim victories in both Montana and North Dakota.

Results in California, meanwhile, remained too close to call.

Though roundly criticized as an inaccurate assessment of the delegate math, media outlets referred to Clinton as the "presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party" throughout the evening. During a prime time speech from Brooklyn, New York, Clinton celebrated the "historic" night after being the first female candidate of either major party to earn the distinction.

In his speech, though it appeared at first Sanders might submit to the not-so-subtle urgings of the Democratic Party establishment and many political pundits who said it was now time for him to quit the race, the U.S. senator from Vermont defied those sentiments by saying his campaign would forge ahead towards next Tuesday's final primary contest in Washington, D.C..

When he said the "fight would continue," the crowd erupted with a roar of approval.

"We are going to fight hard to win the primary in Washington, D.C.," he continued. "And then we will take our fight for social, economic, racial, and environmental justice to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."

While Sanders acknowledged the difficult "arithmetic" for his campaign on Tuesday night—calling the fight ahead "a very, very steep fight"—he stuck to his repeated promise that he was ready to take "the movement" and energy of his campaign all the way to July's national convention.

"Thank you all," he told the roaring crowd, before concluding: "The struggle continues."

 Please go here for the this article and the entire speech: http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-struggle-continues-sanders-refuses-to-bend-the-knee-to-establishment/