‘Feel the Bern’: What to wear to a Bernie Sanders rally
“Bernie fans are big on puns,’’ one supporter said.
Anyone attending tonight’s “Boston for Bernie’’ rally in Dewey Square Park won’t get a peek at presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, but they will have their choice of pun-filled T-shirts.
“Bernie in the House,’’ “Boston 4 Bernie,’’ and “Feel the Bern’’ printed on black shirts will be available for sale at the event.
“Bernie fans are big on puns,’’ said Eric Schluessel, a volunteer member of the “Boston for Bernie’’ press team.
The rally, the creation of an independent group of Sanders supporters, will include speeches from Black Lives Matter, trade unions, students, supporters of the $15-an-hour minimum wage – “all the main Bernie issues,’’ Schluessel said.
About 1,500 people have signed up on Facebook to attend the rally. Schluessel, a believer in Facebook event’s rule of thirds, said he expects many fewer than that will actually come.
“We figure, especially with the rain tonight, we might get a few hundred, which is already way more than we originally expected,’’ he said.
It’s the second event that Boston for Bernie has hosted; the first, which took place at Middle East in Cambridge, was smaller and more intimate.
At that event, the print-making company Antidesigns was hired to do live-printing of Bernie-related shirts. Jay LaCouture, the founder of Antidesigns, said they created four designs out of the “seven or eight’’ concepts that Boston for Bernie had suggested.
Three of those designs will be available for sale at Tuesday’s rally, he said. “Anything we didn’t print at the event we printed for today’s rally,’’ LaCouture said.
Those shirts are a far cry from the decidedly uninspiring apparel on Sanders’s campaign website.
The shirts for sale on Sanders’s campaign site.
Although Sanders does not plan to attend this rally, his campaign told the Boston Herald last week that Massachusetts could be a battleground in his quest to take the Democratic primary from Hillary Clinton.
“I think Massachusetts could be a really pivotal, important battleground this year,’’ Sanders campaign senior adviser Tad Devine told the Herald. “We’re going to try to put together a real organization there.’’
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