(AFP) – American senator Bernie Sanders became one of the best coachella cameos so far, attracting a massive crowd on Saturday when he made a Pitspop at the Premier Music Festival.
Screaming fans ran, camera phones in their hand, to capture the unnoticed speech of the politician who followed a box office success Charli XCX in a neighboring stage.
“I will not spend much time, but this country faces some very difficult challenges and the future of what happens with America in its generation. You can get away and ignore what happens to your own risk. The main weekend of the California desert that marks the unofficial beginning of the music festivals season.
Early in the day, Sanders and the Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez celebrated a demonstration that the organizers said it attracted 36,000 people, a stop on their own tour of “Oligarchy of Lucha” who featured musicians such as Neil Young, Maggie Roggie.
Speaking under a full moon in Coachella, Sanders gave the crowds to face billionaires, health insurance companies and the administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
“Now we have a president of the United States,” Sanders began, before Trump’s name quickly drowned.
“I agree,” Sanders continued. “He thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong, and you and I are going to have to face the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.”
‘Exactly the movement’
Sanders delivered his speech by presenting Pop singer Cliro on stage, whom he thanked for using his platform to support women’s rights and to speak to end the war in Gaza.
“You can get away and you can ignore what happens, but if you do that, you do it under your own danger. We need to stand up, fight for justice. To fight for economic justice, social justice and racial justice,” Sanders told the crowd.
The message hit: “I love Bernie Sanders!” He shouted a festival-gur as the self-denominated socialist senator who hunting with the Democrats concluded his speech.
Samara Guillory, 21, was among the music fans who ran to the stage where Sanders spoke.
“It is so much to mee that Senator Sanders arrived at our level,” Guillory told AFP. “We are the new generation, we are the future of America.”
“Come here, talking to us, spreading awareness, I think this was exactly the movement, sincerely.”
