Who is afraid the war in Ukraine will end?

Only two days after the Collective Biden administration gave the green light for the UK-favored policy of deploying ATACMS missile systems into Ukraine for strikes into Russian territory, the use of such systems is now reported. The Russian Defense Ministry reported today on Telegram at 7:15 a.m.: “According to confirmed data, operational tactical missiles American-made «ATACMS» were used.”

Reuters: “Kyiv said on Tuesday it struck a Russian arsenal near the town of Karachev in the Bryansk region, over 110 km (70 miles) from Ukraine (https://reuters.com/topic/event/ukrai…, in what two Ukrainian media outlets reported was a first strike with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles (https://reuters.com/world/atacms-us-m… Reuters continues, “There was no official confirmation from Ukraine about what weapon was use

Meanwhile, NATO-sphere media and government officials repeat the mantra that the issue is one of quote-unquote “allowing Ukraine“ to use these ATACMS systems.

Yet Vladimir Putin had already clarified over two months ago––one day before the UK’s Keir Starmer had flown to DC to lobby for escalation––that, “What we are seeing is an attempt to substitute notions. Because this is not a question of whether the Kiev regime is allowed or not allowed to strike targets on Russian territory. It is already carrying out strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But using Western-made long-range precision weapons is a completely different story.

“The fact is that I have mentioned this, and any expert, both in our country and in the West will confirm this, the Ukrainian army is not capable of using cutting-edge high-precision long-range systems supplied by the West. … These weapons are impossible to employ without intelligence data from satellites which Ukraine does not have. This can only be done using the European Union’s satellites, or US satellites in general, NATO satellites. This is the first point.

The second point perhaps the most important, the key point even is that only NATO military personnel can assign flight missions to these missile systems. Ukrainian servicemen cannot do this.”

The deployment of ATACMS and other systems from within Ukraine necessarily requires the active deployment of both NATO military personnel and NATO satellite technologies in Ukraine in active war mobilization against Russia.

Far from being “bluffing” as the imbeciles of the trans-Atlantic “stupidity agencies” and “stink tanks” claim, the updated nuclear doctrine signed into law today by the Russian President is a principled stance that they will not allow their country to be destroyed because of the legalistic technicality of the logic of war by proxy.

Should the people of the United States choose to be INTELLIGENT, they would begin to inquire as to who fears the end of this war, as Slovakian President Fico stated suggestively about the Ukrainian figurehead Zelenskyy.

Intelligent, sane Americans can and must bring about the conditions where nonviolent coexistence, instead of violent coannihilation is the outcome of this war. Indeed, our nation is being drawn “irresistibly toward peace” as John F. Kennedy famously stated in 1963. But this will not come, as he warned, without a change from within. We must ask ourselves, whether we would think like Kennedy, or Zelenskyy?

With the title, “Build a Peace Chorus Against the Ghouls of War,” the combined independent campaigns of Jose Vega and Diane Sare hosted a public event on the afternoon of Saturday, October 26.

Jose Vega, LaRouche independent candidate for U.S. House of Representatives in the 15th CD of New York, located in the Bronx, opened the event, promising “something that has never been done before, a hybrid classical concert/political rally.”

See Jose’s speech below:

My recent intervention against Paul Krugman is bearing good fruit. The morning after I posted it on X, he replied by trying to spin the whole thing as if I were a rabid Trumpist. That’s fine, he boosted my post and now it’s going viral.

But then something even more ironic occurred. Krugman was so afraid of the power of a single independent voice bursting his bubble publicly, that he felt compelled to churn out one of his dumb NYT articles, repeating the Trump slander and pumping up a partisan conflict. Liars like Krugman love conflicts, like the one depopulating Palestine right now.

This does not bother me, for one important reason. It represents how precarious these elites’ entire situation is. If people really begin to see through the thin veil of the NYT and other outfits, they will see a desperate little club of “economic royalists” desperately trying to play their “wurlitzer” of international media, but here’s the basic point–– Whether or not you win a “participation trophy” for inventing a category of economics devoted solely to LYING ABOUT THE ECONOMY (which is the alpha and omega of Poor Paul’s “expertise”), Anglo-American financial hegemony is still collapsing before everyone’s very eyes. This is not simply a matter for celebration, however, because people in my District in the South Bronx are living through this disaster, day by worsening day.

“For 250 million of us, the economy isn’t working at all. There is daily financial insecurity, and one serious illness, accident or natural catastrophe—like the hurricane and its effects in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida—tips us into poverty. For at least 50 million of the remaining 100 million, it also doesn’t work, but they are either living on occupations that depend on the massive unprecedented debt that the United States owes the rest of the world, or have figured out a way to live on debt so long as the stock market bubble holds up, and their portfolio is still acceptable enough for them to keep writing virtual checks, though they too, cannot save anything.

Then, there are about 50 million people that are either the slaves or the beneficiaries of what Ray McGovern calls the “Military-Industrial/Congressional/Intelligence/MEDIA/Academia/Think-Tank Complex,” and of those, no more than 20% are really “in the loop.” And that’s what we really mean, today, by the Democratic and the Republican parties. They don’t care about poor people, unless they can use someone “poor, but talented” to beat up on the rest of us. Everyone else is just conforming—pretending to believe in things that actually personally disgust them, in many cases. In the media, the so-called “free press,” these are the only people that we actually hear from, in general, in the country. They are the “opinion-molders.” Luckily, however, the arrogance of these people is directly proportional to their stupidity.

As for “Nobel Prize-winning economist” and liar Paul Krugman, don’t take my word for it. Look around the United States today, and then ask yourself: What does a “No-Balls” Prize in Economics actually mean today? Whom does it help? Who has benefitted from it? Are you and your family better off, or worse off, in the past 20 years? Is the country better off, or worse? Are the cities better off, or worse? Are the roads, bridges, highways, tunnels, dams, hospitals, schools, better off, or worse? Are you happier with the country now, than you were twenty years ago? Is the country a happier place than it was twenty years ago?

It doesn’t matter whether these people {think} they are in touch with the rest of America—they aren’t. They are fighting amongst themselves, and are numerous enough to believe that they represent “America,” when they, and their opinions, in fact represent the wrong turn that the American economy took after the assassination of JFK. It is said that it became the “post-industrial society,” when it actually became the “de-industrial” society.

So, today, America no longer builds cities. When is the last time that America built a city of one million people from scratch? In 1945, America had 1,000 working shipyards. Today it has 20. America has no high speed rail, let alone magnetically levitated trains. It claims to be interested in limiting pollution, but it doesn’t build coast-to-coast maglevs? Why does China have 45,000 miles of high-speed rail, but America has 0 miles of it? Isn’t high-speed rail the most obvious way to replace short plane hops between New York City and Washington DC, or between Boston and Newark, Chicago and Detroit, Atlanta and Birmingham, San Francisco and Los Angeles?

Everywhere we see collapse, and young people see no future. Yet we are told that everything is really fine, that we just need artificial intelligence, virtual reality, fake news and our drugs of choice to “see how much better things are than you think.” I’m not doing that.

I know that new cities have to be built, and old ones rebuilt. I know that building a national advanced transportation network of high-speed rail, especially magnetically levitated trains, above and below ground, would put hundreds of thousands of Americans to work. I know that our entire energy grid needs literally thousands of gigawatts of electricity for the future industries, farms and cities that we should be powering, as we expect our population not only to grow, but to prosper. And I know that no such plan for over a quarter of a billion of us is even in the minds of the people that think they should govern the rest of us.

I don’t agree with that, and I’m not going to agree to that. I have a different idea. I say we take the Army Cops of Engineers, our veterans and retired veterans, and our millions of unemployed youth, as well as those millions of people in dead-end jobs, and build and re-build this country. No more ideology, no more political correctness, no more identity politics bullshit. We need not only the promise of a better future, but a pathway to a better future.

I call it the “Space CCC”—the Space Civilian Construction Corps. The idea is pretty straightforward. We take the cutting edge of the technologies being developed through our space program—which means we increase the funding for space research and development—and start a crash program for energy production, infrastructure repair, high speed rail for transportation of freight and people, and building of new cities. We expand the Army Corps of Engineers, and transfer the hundreds of billions we are wasting defending ourselves against non-existent enemies around the world to the “new workforce” of 35 million Americans or more who would sign up for such a program yesterday, if you proposed it today.

We can work out arrangements with unions for training. We can work out arrangements with the military for college and even high school joint training and military service programs. We can restart vocational training in high schools, which will empty out the identity politics classrooms overnight, thus making people instantly happier. And we can provide gainful employment for men and women that should be paid enough to raise a family of four or more people based on the hard work of 40-plus hours a week, instead of two people each working 50, 60 or more hours, and still not being able to make ends meet, let alone save money.

I no longer want to hear that “the problem is much more complicated than that.” If the problems are more complicated, then it means that the management is wrong. It means that the leadership is wrong. It means that the American people have to find the right people among themselves, and right now, to un-complicate the problem.

All my life in the South Bronx, I have heard that nothing can be done. I’ve even heard that for 50 years before I was born, people were saying that nothing can be done. You mean to tell me, that the country is 250 years old, and that for one third of that time, nothing could be done in the South Bronx? I say, that needs to be changed now, this year, this month, this week, today. And I don’t want to hear that I, or you, should be patient.

Intervene!

“All Those Experiences In My Life Did Not Exceed What I Saw In Gaza, In The First Week.”

UN General Assembly Votes In Overwhelming Opposition Against Illegal Israeli Occupation. Hear the Harrowing Testimony of a U.S. Surgeon Who Witnessed the Devastation in Gaza.

September 18th, 2024 –– Breaking news reports tell that the UN General Assembly has adopted by a margin of 10:1 a Palestinian-drafted resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” within 12 months. 124 votes were in favor, with 43 abstentions, and the United states and 12 others voting “No.”

The passage of this resolution, the first to be put forward by the Palestinian Authority since it gained additional rights and privileges this month, demonstrates that Israel faces increasing isolation in the global community, and comes days before the annual meeting of world leaders at the U.N. This follows a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in July which decided that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements is illegal and should be withdrawn.

The UNGA met on Sept. 17th to debate the resolution before the vote, where it was clear that the global majority of nations opposed Israel’s illegal occupation, which has not only endangered Israel’s security in the region, but has set a historical precedent for the decades of conflict and bloodshed between Israelis and Palestinians. Before voting “No” today, the U.S. and Israeli ambassadors had dismissed the resolution, arrogantly expecting the world to ignore their crimes against humanity. “Each country has a vote, and the world is watching us,” Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour told the General Assembly on Tuesday, as reported in Reuters, “Please stand on the right side of history. With international law. With freedom. With peace.”

As an independent congressional candidate (District NY-15) it is my duty to intervene into this process on behalf of the innocent men, women and children who have lost their lives to senseless slaughter, by sharing a personal testimony given to me by an orthopedic surgeon who had the courage to go to the war zone and operate on hundreds of maimed men, women, and children in the Gaza Strip.

On Monday evening, September 16th, Dr. Mark Perlmutter joined both me and my running mate Diane Sare, a U.S. Senate candidate running against Kirsten Gillibrand (NY-D), to discuss what he witnessed as a surgeon in Gaza. Dr. Perlmutter’s credentials include being president of the World Surgical Foundation, and past president of the United States Section of the International College of Surgeons. Over 30 years, he has been part of 40 lifesaving missions, including significant disaster relief efforts at Ground Zero on 9/11, during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and following the earthquakes in Haiti in 2010. Those experiences, he remarked to us, “did not exceed” the human suffering and pain witnessed in Gaza in the first week he was there. “Just the first week,” he reiterated.

Working 20 hours a day, with limited medical resources, Dr. Perlmutter encountered a disproportionate number of wounded children which made up nearly 50% of his patients—from cities and small towns. 2,000 pound bombs, provided with U.S. taxpayer money, have been dropped on these children who live in densely-populated Gaza. One of his most horrifying recollections involved having to treat two children who were each shot, twice, by IDF snipers. Both were shot in the chest and head. Such acts were not only deliberate, Perlmutter remarked, but indicated the gross neglect by the IDF for preventing civilian deaths, despite Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s empty words.

Furthermore, as has been documented copiously, journalists, nurses and doctors were deliberately targeted. Perlmutter recounted a specific incident he encountered, where a Palestinian nurse in Gaza who had refused to leave an operating room had been shot in the knee, kidnapped to an Israeli prison, tortured, “blind-folded, hand-cuffed and given a juicebox a day, dropped at the border with maggots coming out of his leg on the 45th day of no medical care; picked up after he crawled three kilometers in the dirt naked, not seeing where was going because his going-away present from the Israeli soldier who dropped him off was a rifle-butt in his right eye from which he is now blinded forever; and then I met him when he was brought to the hospital where we were working, you know, so you have a starved, tortured health care worker that was deliberately targeted, clearly not Hamas, because they let him go, and this is the perfect example of my next topic, which is why there were no journalists there, and that’s because they were also assassinated, or had their equipment confiscated.” Perlmutter went on state unequivocally that the “legacy American media” is “the problem,” explaining that he has also had to take up the mantle of a journalist solely because the media was derelict of its duty to inform the public of the truth. “The only way the truth is going to get out is if we say it,” he said.

In light of the important resolution passed today by the General Assembly of the UN of the Palestinian resolution today, I intend for Dr. Perlmutter’s account of these atrocities to be circulated to all the relevant ambassadors, diplomats, and staff workers at the UN so that it may be investigated, questioned, and taken into consideration.

My campaign is dedicated to speaking up on behalf of truth-tellers and courageous individuals. In 2020, I collaborated with former NSA technical director Bill Binney to get a real investigation into the so-called “Russiagate” scandal which accused Russia of hacking into the servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Binney had done a technical analysis of the DNC files in question, and proved that the metadata indicated a leak from a DNC insider rather than a hack. Such evidence was not taken into account by the relevant authorities, or the legacy media, and we were then unsurprisingly and continually lied to about Russian election interference. I have intervened against notable political figures, such as Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and others, for their brinkmanship against Russia and China, and their failure to use diplomacy to resolve conflicts in the world. The horrifying butchery in Palestine now on display to everyone with a smartphone, computer, or television is being constantly ignored by the United States and most of its allies in the West. ICJ documentation of Israeli officials like Defense Minister Yoav Gallant referring to Palestinians as “human animals” have not resulted in an iota of sympathy among the majority of lawmakers in the United States who continue to arm Israel.

Because of this complicit silence of U.S. officials, who were among the 13 “No” votes today in the General Assembly, Dr. Mark Perlmutter’s true bravery and first-hand experiences must be heard and widely circulated, rapidly.

To hear Dr. Perlmutter’s account of his experiences, and to find out how to join the growing international movement for peace and development, watch the attached video from our last campaign meeting, and contact my campaign at (800) 498-8561.

“He’s trying to lead us to war,” was the title of an interview conducted by China’s Global Times after Jose Vega and campaign activists Robert Castle and Simon Miller confronted the warmonger Matthew Pottinger at the Asia Society on July 2^nd.

The interview was conducted on July 6, Beijing time.

Vega posted the recording on X and wrote: “My friends and I confronted anti-China hawk and Richie Torres advisor Matt Pottinger at an Asia Society event. While Pottinger proposes dismantling China-U.S. relations and separating Taiwan from China (which will end up in WW3), I proposed instead that the U.S. and China are not enemies and should join hands in the Belt and Road Initiative to promote peace and economic development. For this, I was thrown to the ground and choked by security. It’s no wonder Ritchie Torres is such an idiot when he’s surrounded by Neo-con spooks who get paid to lie.” 

Global Times reports that the trio was forcibly removed by security personnel at the venue. Vega was choked after falling to the ground while being manhandled by security, while Castle was violently aggressed for several minutes, including an episode where he was strangled in an elevator after an eyewitness had been told to leave the scene by the aggressor “security guards.” Police on the scene later conceded that the security’s violent and illegal behavior would justify the police taking them “away from the scene in handcuffs.”

Please watch the interview on the social media account of Global Times. 

On July 5 Alex Lo wrote under the headline ‘Why the Asia Society invited the wrong person to speak on China’ an opinion peace for the South China Morning Post, saying he thought the response of a member of the audience made perfect sense. He continues to quote from what Jose Vega said and mentions the belligerent behavior of the security policing the event. 

Lo ends his piece by saying: ‘If it were true to its mission, the [Asia] society should make amends, invite the guy back – whoever he is – and give him the floor this time.’

An Independence Day Message from Jose Vega, LaRouche Independent Candidate, 15^th CD in the Bronx

As we approach the anniversary of our nation’s formal Declaration of Independence to the world, on July 4th, 1776, it would behoove every U.S. citizen today to read that remarkable document, particularly the train of abuses noted for our separation from the British Monarchy.

Note not all, but some of those grievances noted by our revolutionary forefathers: “The History of the King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations…

—He has erected a multitude of New Offices and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance

—He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures

—He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil

—For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.”

Now consider how the United States has conducted itself on behalf of other nations. In Ukraine, we have sacrificed over 600,000 souls for the purpose of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia with billions of dollars of weapons. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a very generous and reasonable proposal to back out of Ukraine in the Spring of 2022 as long as certain security guarantees were agreed to, such as the obvious non-admission of Ukraine into NATO. That was squandered by disgraced British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in typical fashion of the Empire he serves, but with no opposition from the President of the United States.

In Southwest Asia, we have allowed a genocidal regime to use more destructive force than we did on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, to kill off innocent children and women who have been condemned for terrorist acts they themselves did not commit. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister overseeing that sadistic mass-murder, is now scheduled to address our Congress this month.

What exactly are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence now, if not unfulfilled, hypocritical documents to the vast majority of the world? Is the current crop of presidential candidates presented to the U.S. electorate qualified to remedy this situation?

Those who organized the greatest conspiracy in all of history, and successfully won their independence from the greatest military power in history, made it clear, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

I declare that it is not our duty to change the government of the United States, but to REMOVE those currently in charge of misrepresenting us on behalf of the Military-Financial Complex, Wall Street, and the corporate cartels that have hijacked U.S. policy and distorted our revolutionary humanist traditions. That’s why I’ve declared my independent candidacy for U.S. Congress against Richie Torres in the Bronx.

It is time that people elect themselves to take back their government.

You can help by financially supporting my campaign. I ask everyone that can do it to donate either $17.76, $176, or $1776 to my campaign this July, so that we can continue our fight in the Bronx.

I would then ask that everyone read the writings of Hamilton, Jay, Washington, and Ben Franklin, to understand the historical tradition of our country that has been stolen from you. There are now billions of people in the world in Africa, South America, and Asia, who aspire to create a new security and development architecture which will provide low-interest credit to develop their own nation’s economies.

Can we fulfill this wonderful opportunity that is presented to us today, avoid nuclear war, and create a community of sovereign nation-states as Franklin Roosevelt intended at the conclusion of World War II?

Will you declare your independence?

On Thursday evening, June 6th, Jose Vega, a LaRouche Independent candidate running for Congress in New York’s 15th Congressional District, hosted his first major event and fundraiser at Bronxlandia, a venue in the Hunts Point neighborhood of the Bronx. Featured headliners included Jimmy Dore, a popular stand-up comedian and political commentator with over 1.33 million followers on his show, along with Keaton Weiss and Russell Dobular of Due Dissidence. 

A crowd of well over 100 showed up to the event, with supporters of Jose from both the Bronx and from other areas. Several individuals who had volunteered to successfully get Vega on the ballot by petitioning New York voters over a six-week period starting on April 16th also attended, including some from out of state who flew in just to attend the event. 

The significance of the event was marked not just by its headliners, but by the intense diversity of the audience, as well as the support from those in Vega’s community. Majora Carter, a long-time business owner in Hunts Point, and the owner of Bronxlandia, the venue where the event occurred, opened it with impassioned remarks about her first encounter with Vega:

“I own a little café up the street, and the first time that he walked in, I was looking out the window and there was this really happy dude, playing chess with this guy outside, and it was Jose who was wandering outside the Bronx. He had no idea our café was there, but when he realized (it), we got to talking about what we believe to be the value of understanding and supporting our own community. 

“As a business owner, as someone who gets that, the fact that Jose is doing what he’s doing, I cannot tell you, as someone from this community, being so proud to know that there’s things I always knew to be true—that there is amazing talent coming from our neighborhood; and that we want to support ourselves, and we are also looking outward, because we are not just this insular people. We’re the kind of people who also understand that the world is something we can also take care of.”

Russell Dobular, a co-host of the Due Dissidence podcast, who has hosted Jose and his colleagues on his show several times, noted in his speech that Vega may very well be considered as the first to set the trend of political disruption and intervention against the gatekeepers of the Establishment class, who are so committed to endless wars and the never-ending financial assistance they are willing to supply to perpetuate these wars. The interventions of Vega and his colleagues on President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, former Secretary of State/CIA Director Mike Pompeo and Hillary Clinton, have had a profound effect nationally and internationally, inspiring many people to rise up and become active in a moral, anti-war, pro-peace process against the ever-increasing danger of war against Ukraine and Russia, and the brutal genocide in Gaza. Dobular remarked:

“When it comes to disrupting the civility politics so beloved of the liberal class, Jose has not only been at the frontlines, it’s fair to say he’s helped to set the trend. Jose represents a future where a new generation of activists working in politics, labor, and the arts is truly ‘woke,’ in the original sense of the word … that is truly awake to the failure of our system to address the needs of all our people, and rises up to challenge that system.”

Keaton Weiss followed up on the subject of Vega’s viral intervention against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in October 2022, and noted that when he first encountered Jose online, he was directed away from him, because of his involvement with Lyndon LaRouche’s organization. Despite that, Weiss invited him to his show, nevertheless, and found that he was anything else but some wild cultist: “I think a conversation with Jose could be a great demonstration in transcending political labels in order to forge common ground on the most important issues of the day.”

Weiss continued, noting that discussions about the danger of nuclear war and the ongoing genocide in Gaza being financed and supported by the United States, have shattered previous, outdated notions of what actually constitutes political dialogue in the United States. 

Jimmy Dore followed with his set. Most of his jokes covered the COVID-19 pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and related political topics. Dore noted towards the end of his set that he was “proud to be supporting Jose Vega.” 

Jose Vega thanked Dobular, Weiss and Dore for their contributions. He noted that it was the 80th anniversary of D-Day, where the allied forces worked with Russia to turn the tide of the war against the Nazis. Much like that moment in history, Vega said, this present moment marks the opportunity for independent voices, not just candidates, to actually take back their government in each of their respective districts. Vega noted that this was a process that involved many of his colleagues, with the purpose of having other people replicate it in each of the 435 congressional districts in the United States. The incumbent of NY-15, Rep. Ritchie Torres, who vociferously defends Israeli “Crime” Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s murderous campaign against the innocent children and women of Gaza and the West Bank, has taken over $600,000 from AIPAC, along with many other contributions from big, super-PAC type lobbyist groups, totaling at least $1.5 million. Torres’s unapologetic acceptance of these contributions translates into his advocacy of Gestapo-type laws, like the recently introduced Columbia Act, a bill Torres himself sponsored. This bill threatens to put monitoring agents in college campuses, such as New York’s Columbia University, to intimidate students now protesting Israel’s legally criminal actions. Vega said that his campaign is a message to sell-outs like Torres, and his controllers, who think they can buy a congressional district in a place like the Bronx, because they believe the people there are too ignorant to stop it. 

A Q&A followed, featuring all of the previous speakers. Weiss and Dobular, following questions from those who identified themselves as petitioners for Jose Vega’s campaign, identified the importance of their own active participation in that process, when they came for a weekend to do it. Weiss noted that he had not canvassed for any candidate since Bernie Sanders, when Sanders looked like a promising candidate, but was incredibly moved to speak to people in the Bronx who are itching for an alternative independent voice. Weiss asked the people in the audience who petitioned for Vega to stand up. 

This was no “headliner” event. The group of diverse, active, and passionate individuals who either donated or volunteered to petition for Vega made for an incredibly vibrant atmosphere. More will be done in the following days and weeks, particularly an intensive campaign to create a Bronx Freedom Summer, consisting of science, music, and economics classes in the South Bronx and other parts of New York City, noted Vega, at the event’s conclusion.