Bernie was on this back in 2008, long before he decided to run for president—this would be in contrast to other candidates who, for the sake of winning votes, all of a sudden discover a new-found “caring” for the struggles of workers and non-white communities.
The video says it all:
A tidbit from the video via campaign release:
“Bernie Sanders took interest in the lives of the workers and wanted to hear their struggles,” Udelia says. “Politicians never came to Immokalee. He didn’t keep silent about what he witnessed here in Immokalee.”
“There are now more rights and worker support,” Udelia says of life in Immokalee after the committee hearings. “We started to see changes in our wages. It really improved our lives. I could buy small things for my children. This changes a person.”
“But how many more Immokalees are there?” Sanders says as the video closes. “How many fields or factories are there? We have to ask ourselves ‘who benefits from this exploitation?’ And to understand that it is not only the Immokalee workers who suffer but every worker in America because that pushes us in a race to the bottom.”
A five-minute version of this will run Thursday nationwide at 8:48 p.m. EST on Univision. As the campaign says, “It is unprecedented for the Spanish-language network to run an ad this long and it will alter its primetime schedule to accommodate the spot.”