{"id":26059,"date":"2016-01-27T17:16:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=26059"},"modified":"2016-01-27T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:16:50","slug":"bernie-sanders-fans-let-chicago-feel-the-bern-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/bernie-sanders-fans-let-chicago-feel-the-bern-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Sanders Fans Let Chicago &#8220;feel the bern&#8221; (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?s=jasmine+cen\">Jasmine Cen<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">More than 1,000 people shouted &#8220;we are the 99 percent&#8221; as they marched on LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago Saturday to\u00a0endorse presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feel the bern,&#8221; the excited participants chanted, along with other slogans.<\/p>\n<p>March for Bernie is a movement that spread across the nation via Facebook. Many organizers of these events are activist groups located in different cities.<\/p>\n<p>[vimeo 153300825 w=474]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The march idea popped up on Facebook, and we said &#8216;wow&#8217; that will be a really good action for the type of politics we want to do,&#8221; said\u00a0Nick Wozniak, a Chicago activist and one of the organizers of the march.<\/p>\n<p>After the event posted, more than 1,000 people signed up to attend within a week.<\/p>\n<p>The participants came to support\u00a0Sanders but many of them also spoke out for other causes such as immigration reform, eliminating police brutality and funding Chicago schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was inspiring to see so many people come together talking about real issues, like immigration reform and campaign finance reform, especially,&#8221; said Daniel Schmidt, an environmental activist.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the march, the organizers brought in several speakers to talk about real issues including police brutality, immigration, and corporate America.<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt said he believes Sanders will stand up to the misinformation \u00a0and will support renewable energy to stop global warming.<\/p>\n<p>George Lenze, a college student at DePaul University, shared her passion about minimizing the wage gap, LGBTQ rights, and \u00a0minority discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>The peaceful march lasted about two hours and ended at the Chicago Board of Trade. New York City&#8217;s march is scheduled for this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"featurecaption\">Photo on top: Lots of kids joined the march and listened to speeches in Daley Plaza before it began. (By Jasmine Cen\/ Medill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jasmine Cen More than 1,000 people shouted &#8220;we are the 99 percent&#8221; as they marched on LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago Saturday to\u00a0endorse presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. &#8220;Feel the bern,&#8221; the excited participants chanted, along with other slogans. March for Bernie is a movement that spread across the nation via Facebook. 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