Feel the Bern in Coachella!

Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a passionate speech to remind our youth to fight for social justice

My Fellow Democracy Defenders,

Bernie Sanders is fighting fascism in the desert.

Over the weekend, he gave impassioned remarks about social justice while introducing the singer Clairo.

Here is a transcript that I made of his speech:

Look I'm not going to be long, but this is what I want to say. This country faces some very difficult challenges. And the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

Now you can turn away and you can ignore what goes on but if you do that you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up to fight for justice. To fight for economic justice social justice and racial justice!

Now we got a president of the United States who thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong. And you and I you and I are going to have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.

All over this country, not in California, not in Vermont where I'm from, but in Florida where Maxwell is from many other states’ politicians are trying to take away a woman's right to control her own body. We need you to stand up and fight for women's rights.

We have an economy today that is working very well for the billionaire class, but not for working families. We need you to help us to create an economy that works well for everybody - not just the 1%. We have a health care system that is broken. We are the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. We need you to stand up to the insurance companies and the drug companies and understand that healthcare care is a human right.

Now I'm here to introduce Clairo. Not just because they are a great band. Not only because Clairo at the age of 13 posted videos on the internet as a singer songwriter. I'm here because Clairo has used her prominence to fight for women's rights to try to end the terrible brutal war in Gaza, where thousands thousands of women and children are being killed. So I want to thank Clairo not only for being in a great band but for the great work she is doing.