Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change
Over 30,000 turn out for Bernie Sanders, AOC rally in Denver amid push for progressive change
An estimated 34,000 people gathered Friday at Civic Center Park in Denver to hear Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York push a number of progressive policies.
Summary
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drew 34,000 people to a rally in Denver and 11,000 in Greeley as part of their "Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
They advocated progressive policies and condemned billionaire influence in politics, with Sanders urging resistance to "Trumpism" and oligarchy.
Attendees expressed frustration over economic inequality and corporate influence.
Critics, including Republican Reps. Gabe Evans and Lauren Boebert, dismissed their message as extreme and anti-energy.
Sanders and AOC pledged continued efforts to advance progressive change nationwide.
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I am sorry, but that is embarrassing, 30k people is average sized rally in my 10M people country.
Then by your reckoning, they're doing pretty well. Colorado has a population of 6 million.
It needs to be in the streets but it's hard to be the first to do it. And where I love I'm not even sure who, what, or where to protest.
Colorado has a 5.9 million person population spread across 104,185 square miles (269,837km^2) of mountains and plains.
TIL Colorado is approximately Finland
Gotta start somewhere 🤷♂️
Hopefully this is only the start of a growing series of protests and rallies.
Americans really need to get out by the millions and save their country before there's nothing left to save.
I guess so.. let's see if it will actually grow.
Oh, it'll definitely grow, idk where this pessimism is coming from. People are fed up and you got the most popular spokespersons on the left leading the movement and they just surpassed their expectations five-fold.
Oh, it’ll definitely grow, idk where this pessimism is coming from.
Some people want progressives to fail. Even if that means fascism.
I think a lot of people lost faith already. I'm glad it's Bernie though.
I mean, this has been the biggest so far for this tour. The crowd sizes have been growing.
And how large (geographically) is your country?