{"id":11277,"date":"2015-07-22T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11277"},"modified":"2015-07-22T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T00:04:00","slug":"the-woman-who-led-the-blacklivesmatter-protest-against-sanders-and-omalley-in-phoenix-bradcast-7222015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11277","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Led the #BlackLivesMatter Protest Against Sanders and O’Malley in Phoenix: ‘BradCast’ 7\/22\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, #BlackLivesMatter protesters disrupted a political forum featuring Democratic Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley at the progressive Netroots Nation<\/a> conference in Phoenix, AZ. <\/p>\n

The leader of that lively and lengthy (and, apparently, controversial) protest, Tia Oso, National Coordinator of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI<\/a>) joins us on today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a> to explain why she did it<\/a> and to discuss the reactions from O’Malley, Sanders and the progressives who support them.<\/p>\n

“We talk a lot. There are a lot of town halls. We have NAACP and Urban League at the national level having these conversations all the time. Reports are issued. And the fact that it takes almost a spectacle of black suffering for people to even have their hearts moved is heartbreaking to me,” Oso tells me.<\/p>\n

Also on today’s program: Hate crimes charges filed against the Charleston AME Church shooter (though not terrorism charges); Hillary Clinton may be in trouble against Republicans in three key swing states; the Pope’s popularity is faltering in the U.S. (largely among Rightwingers, for some reason); and why it’s a problem when candidates, like Hillary, get so much of their campaign money from the wealthy donor class…<\/p>\n

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