Vermont Business Magazine Where Winston Churchill gave his "Iron Curtain" speech, US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) will deliver the Green Foundation Lecture Thursday at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Sanders will lay out his vision of a progressive American foreign policy, one that defines power and leadership not primarily through the use of force but through the building and mobilization of international consensus, that prioritizes human dignity and well-being against the depredations of unaccountable government and corporate power, and that sees new opportunities for cooperation around shared challenges like climate change, authoritarianism, wealth inequality and terrorism.

The Green Foundation Lecture series has brought an impressive procession of illustrious world leaders to Westminster to deliver significant addresses. Sir Winston Churchill delivered his "Sinews of Peace" speech, more commonly known as the "Iron Curtain" speech, as a part of the lecture series in 1946.

"The Green Foundation Lecture represents all that is good about Westminster College and our nation's role in engaging the world as Winston Churchill did here in 1946," said Dr. Kurt Jefferson, Director of the Churchill Institute for Global Engagement, the office at Westminster that is in charge of the lecture series. "It is one of the marker events in American higher learning today. Senator Sanders will now leave his stamp on post-Cold War history with his thoughts on American foreign policy today."

Who: Sen. Bernie Sanders

What: The 58th Green Foundation Lecture

Where: Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and live streamed

When: Thursday, Sept. 21 at 11 a.m. CT

For more information on the Green Foundation Lecture and Westminster's annual Hancock Symposium, click here.

Press interested in covering should RSVP to Press_Sanders@sanders.senate.gov by 5 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 19.

Source: BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 15, 2017 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders

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