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The Faces of Bernie Sanders’s Brooklyn Rallies in Flatbush and Greenpoint

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Paul Gootenberg, a history professor at Stony Brook University, brought his 11-year-old daughter Lea-Sainz to feel the Bern. “We haven’t seen anything like this in a long time,” says Gootenberg, who compares Sanders’ leftwing insurgency to the populist candidacies of Eugene McCarthy and socialist Eugene Debs. Of course, neither won, but Gootenberg believes “Bernie might, and he’s having a big impact that’s pushing the political system in a new way.”

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders took to Brooklyn on April 8, organizing two rallies in Flatbush and Greenpoint on a blustery day. Sanders addressed the crowds, talking about jobs, the Panama Papers, and the future of his political revolution: “We are right now in a pivotal point in American history. The status quo is not working for the American people today. Why is it that so few have so much, and so many have so little?” Here are a few of the Sanders supporters the Voice met on Friday afternoon.

Photos by Sarah Ferguson for the Village Voice