{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=2DB914B7-4885-492A-8881-4392CA9F7B07", ": News August 25", "2013-08-25", "2013", "2013-08", "Independent", "House", "VT", "Bernard Sanders", "S000033", "sanders.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "News August 25\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tSunday, August 25, 2013\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\tSenator Sanders March on Washington Sen. Bernie Sanders was among the more than 200,000 people who gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington 50 years ago to hear the Rev. Martin Luther King deliver his \"I Have a Dream\" speech. Since then, Sanders said, there has been some real progress in breaking down barriers of discrimination and segregation, including the election and re-election of an African-American president. But Sanders said the country is worse off than it was in 1963 in unemployment, low wages and more wealth disparity, according to an Associated Press report in the Times Argus, Rutland Herald and Brattleboro Reformer. In the Valley News, Sanders said the anniversary is a time to reflect on progress that has occurred but also to realize that the country has a long way to go. LINK, LINK, LINK\r\n\u2018I Have a Dream\u2019 Sen. Sanders credits King\u00a0with shaping\u00a0the values he\u00a0holds to this\u00a0day, he told WPTZ-TV. He spoke about his experience at the march. \u201cIt\u00a0was just a huge\u00a0crowd of every kind\u00a0of people \u2013 African-\u00a0Americans, whites.\u00a0There was a real\u00a0sense of joy and\u00a0optimism because\u00a0the success had\u00a0already occurred before King\u2019s speech just\u00a0by huge numbers who\u00a0showed up. It was\u00a0very positive day.\u201d Fox 44 and ABC 22 aired video of Sanders at the Lincoln Memorial. \u201cWe have come a long, long way in a lot of areas in fulfilling some of the visions that this great man had. But on the other hand let us not forget for one second that a lot of his dreams still have not been fulfilled.\u201d VIDEO, VIDEO\r\nMoran Plant Plans\u00a0Redevelopment plans for the 1950s-era Moran power plant on the Burlington waterfront range from a showcase for the arts to an expansion of the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center.\u00a0\u201cThe most successful ones advance the idea that the heart of this thing is the community,\u201d said Peter Owens, the city\u2019s director of Community and Economic Development.\u00a0Owens worked in the 1980s with then Mayor Sanders on waterfront redevelopment, the Burlington Free Press reported.\u00a0LINK\r\nVermont Attractions A Burlington Free Press profile of Katharine Montstream said the Burlington artist studied at the University of Colorado and stayed for a couple years after college. But she missed the East and started thinking about a place to move. \u201cBurlington attracted her for several reasons: The big lake; Bernie Sanders; a handful of colleges; skiing; and the location being four hours from her parents. Not necessarily in that order.\u201d LINK\r\nWorld Syria The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze. The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces came as an international aid group said it has tallied 355 deaths from a purported chemical weapons attack on Wednesday in a suburb of the Syrian capital, The Associated Press reported. LINK\r\nNational March on Washington Tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 March on Washington, listening as political and civil rights leaders reflected on the legacy of racial progress over the last half-century and urged Americans to press forward in pursuit of King's dream of equality. The event was sponsored by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Martin Luther King III and the NAACP, CBS News reported. LINK\r\nA Veteran\u2019s Suicide Army veteran Daniel Somers service in Iraq, including multiple combat missions as a turret gunner, left him with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Somers felt frustrated in his efforts to get mental health and medical care from the Department of Veterans Affairs. And he was caught in VA\u2019s notorious disability claims backlog. When Somers, 30, shot himself in the head, his case seeking full disability for his PTSD had been awaiting resolution for 20 months, according to The Washington Post. His parents, Howard and Jean Somers, have been meeting with VA officials and congressional staffers to tell their son\u2019s story. LINK\r\nVermont    March on Washington \u201cThe anniversary of the March on Washington reminds us of what is possible when people look past their differences and work toward a shared goal. When President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, he declared: \u201cThrough this act, and its enforcement, an important instrument of freedom passes into the hands of millions of our citizens,\u201d Sen. Patrick Leahy wrote in a Burlington Free Press column. 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