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Posted on 05/02/2025 12:04:14 PM PDT by lightman
A massive crowd gathered at City Hall in Philadelphia Thursday for a May Day rally and to see Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders speak.
The "For Workers, Not Billionaires" rally on the north side of City Hall drew a large crowd and shut down streets in the area.
Sanders laid into the Trump administration's policies on taxes, immigration, federal cuts and more. He also pointed out the billionaires President Trump has put into cabinet positions and surrounded himself with — including the world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk. Sanders says he came to the event with a call to workers and Pennsylvania lawmakers.
Chopper 3 was over the rally, which spilled into the street.
"I'm here in Pennsylvania to tell any member of the Pennsylvania delegation that if they vote for tax breaks for billionaires and cut Medicaid, nutrition and education, we are gonna throw them out of their jobs," Sanders said.
Danny Bauder, president of the Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, talked to CBS News Philadelphia about what workers want.
"No more lawless deportations and sending people without due process, you know, kidnapping them in the middle of the night and sending them to some, you know, unknown prison in El Salvador," Bauder said. "No. 2 is that the cuts that are being made or talked about being made to the federal government, both to Social Security and Medicare and also to the actual, you know, the people of the federal government, the people who work there and provide services that we all rely on, absolutely not. We don't want any of that. And then the third thing is that we all need stronger ties between us as working people, and it's a call to arms for people to organize in their workplaces."
After the event, some rally-goers marched around the building and toward the intersection of North Broad and Vine streets.
According to a news release from the Philadelphia AFL-CIO, some protesters "peacefully blocked the busy intersection during rush hour traffic," leading to dozens of arrests.
Philadelphia police said 70 people were arrested for obstructing traffic at that time. Officers issued multiple warnings before arresting protesters, both police and the union said.
They were released one at a time Thursday night. Supporters cheered as they walked out.
"Courage is contagious, and we are going to need a lot more of it in order to be able to push back on the things that are happening," Bauder said Thursday night.
Sanders has been on a nationwide tour looking to counter Mr. Trump during his first 100 days, and the events have caught the president's attention. Mr. Trump on Tuesday rallied in Michigan, defending his policies and taking aim at Democrats and the Vermont senator.
"They have no confidence anymore as a party. They have no candidates," Mr. Trump said. "And you know, when they say that Bernie – Bernie's probably the best they have – by the way, he's about seven years older than me, more, eight years older."
The rally was organized by local labor unions, immigrant groups and activists.
Sanders will spend the next two days in Pennsylvania with stops in Harrisburg and the Lehigh Valley.
Earlier this week Sen. Dave McCormick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, defended Mr. Trump at an event in Philly. He said the president's plan to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. will bring work to places like the Navy Yard.
"These are incredible, great-paying jobs," McCormick said. "If we continue to have the success we're having here at the Philly Shipyard, we're gonna go from 1,500 employees across multiple sites here to many thousands more."
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Believe Sanders has not one, not two, but three houses to his name, lol.
Imagine union leaders who want illegal aliens to replace their rank and file so that wages get lower for all workers.
Welcome to 2025!
Sanders/Sandy Olliearchie rallies are starting to look like those held by Adolf Hitler, The Russians and the Red Chinese. Rich bass turd trashing other rich bass turds.
Great point. Somebody isn’t thinking ahead. LOL!
If there’s anyone who knows what it’s like to be a worker - it ain’t Bernie.
Who are the other “billionaires” in Trump’s inner circle besides Elon Musk? Since Bernie “Elmer Fudd” Sanders is so worried about billionaires influencing politics, will he speak out against George Soros? Bill Gates? The WEF crowd?
Not a very big crowd actually considering how many looters and moochers live in Philly.
Show us your daily schedule, Comrade Bernyovich. Let’s see how many millionaires you meet with on a daily basis and how many “workers”.
Proof that you can get thousands of socialists to gather and listen to an old socialist.
I’m not impressed
The church on the left side of the picture is Arch St UMC. I attended there from 1972-79, got married in its chapel in 1976. Like everything else United Methodist, the church has gone leftist-heretical, but in my day it still preached the gospel.
He have a house there, too?
Bernie Sanders is Vermont’s biggest BS artist who has been feeding off the public for just about all of his working career.
I don’t understand. Why do we denigrate the wealthy and venerate the poor? People say Bezos should give his wealth away. Why? He’s been a millionaire for decades and could have bought a yacht years ago and sailed around the world eating bon-bons. But he didn’t. Instead of enjoying the high life, he plowed the profits back into Amazon to grow the company. Now, his efforts feed, clothe, and shelter over 250,000+ people all over the globe. How many of you were hired by a poor person? So, until you support over a quarter million people by your own efforts, I say sit down and STFU.
And after he said this, he flew in a private jet back to one of his million dollar homes.
That’s a crowd of government employees who are being paid to be there instead of working.
3 IS CORRECT.
KICKED OUT OF THE KUBBITZ BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO WORK
NEVER, EVER HELD A PRIVATE SECTOR JOB IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
HIS FINANCIAL LIFE NEEDS AN AUTOPSY
That is the biggest crowd of communists that a communist in communist Philadelphia can draw? Pretty sad stuff from Bernie.
Yeah, that's how you get people to become sympathetic with your cause. Keep it up, comrades.
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