“This Is How We Thank The People Who Died For Democracy — By Letting Billionaires Buy The Presidency?”
We spoke with Anna Grabowski, whose disruption of a Michael Bloomberg rally yesterday has gone viral on social media. For Grabowski, standing up to Bloomberg is about defending democracy itself.
A protestor holds up a sign as presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks at a campaign event at the Dollarhide Community Center in Compton, California on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. Scott Varley/MediaNews / Getty.
On Wednesday, a video started popping up all over Twitter showing a woman in her sixties interrupting a rally for Michael Bloomberg, the multibillionaire former New York City mayor whose self-funded presidential campaign is gaining traction. “That is not democracy!” the woman shouts over a chorus of boos. “That is plutocracy!”
Within hours, Jacobin’s Meagan Day was on the phone with Anna Grabowski, a sixty-five-year-old retired schoolteacher and county parks worker who lives in Ten Mile, Tennessee, to talk about the problems with Bloomberg, the promise of Bernie Sanders, and the importance of democracy.
Meagan Day
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Anna Grabowski
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