Bernie Sanders Speaks at Coachella: The Future of What Happens in America Is Dependent Upon Your Generation

EXCERPT:

SANDERS: “I'm not gonna be long, but this is what I want to say. This country faces some very difficult challenges."

WOMAN IN THE AUDIENCE: "Fight the oligarchy! Woo!"

SANDERS: "And the future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

(Cheering and Applause)

Now, you can turn away and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up, to fight for justice.

(Cheering and Applause)

To fight for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.

(Cheering and Applause)

Now, we got a president of the United States who — 

(Audience boos)

I agree. He thinks that climate change is a hoax. He is dangerously wrong. And you and I, you and I are gonna have to stand up to the fossil fuel industry and tell them to stop destroying this planet.”