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Democratic left senses national star in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Democratic left senses national star in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
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Ocasio-Cortez providing boost to progressives | Ocasio-Cortez providing boost to progressives |
After her stunning primary win over Joe Crowley in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been using her newfound national platform to boost other progressive candidates across the country. | After her stunning primary win over Joe Crowley in New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been using her newfound national platform to boost other progressive candidates across the country. |
On Friday night, Ocasio-Cortez appeared with Bernie Sanders in Kansas to support Brent Welder and James Thompson; on Saturday she will campaign with Cori Bush, who is running against the nine-term congressman William Clay in Missouri. | |
Yes, She Is in Kansas: Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her National Campaign Debut - New York Times: New York Times Yes, She Is in Kansas: Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her National Campaign Debut New York Times From right, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Bernie Sanders and… https://t.co/yr3NGIiBeE pic.twitter.com/sdQaDrAmyK | Yes, She Is in Kansas: Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her National Campaign Debut - New York Times: New York Times Yes, She Is in Kansas: Ocasio-Cortez Makes Her National Campaign Debut New York Times From right, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senator Bernie Sanders and… https://t.co/yr3NGIiBeE pic.twitter.com/sdQaDrAmyK |
Ocasio-Cortez’s star power went beyond personal appearances, Bush told the Guardian. A few days before the New York primary, Bush had taken $8 in donations over a 24-hour period. The day after Ocasio-Cortez won, and mentioned Bush in a tweet, she received $8,000. | |
“When Alex won, that changed everything,” Bush said. “First of all, it gave us a new boost and it helped to revitalize us, and then immediately that national attention came to the race.” | “When Alex won, that changed everything,” Bush said. “First of all, it gave us a new boost and it helped to revitalize us, and then immediately that national attention came to the race.” |
Occupy Ice under fire | Occupy Ice under fire |
Camps of activists opposed to Trump’s immigration policies have continued to grow across the US, with 11 different cities now having Occupy Ice hubs. The camps are becoming more organized as people involved in different states begin to communicate with each other. | |
But at least one camp is facing dangerous counter-protests. Occupy Ice Louisville, in Kentucky, has been the subject of armed protests by American Action Force III% over the past two weekends, and the anti-immigration group told the Guardian it planned to subject the Occupy Ice to the same treatment indefinitely. | |
Jesus Ibanez, one of the activists involved in Occupy Ice Louisville, told the Guardian: “Just seeing those weapons that they have, it was intimidating.” American Action Force brought about 50 people to the Occupy camp on 14 July, but more than a hundred people came out to support the encampment. | |
What we’re reading | What we’re reading |
Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the supreme court has anti-abortion activists ecstatic in some states, the New York Times reported this week. “They aim to galvanize Americans who oppose abortion but who rarely vote outside presidential races, and to pressure red-state Democrats, like Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana, to support Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation,” the Times’ Elizabeth Dias writes, in a piece in which she meets some very young abortion-opposers. | |
Julia Salazar, a progressive endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, appeared on the Chapo Trap House podcast last week to discuss her New York senate primary campaign against the incumbent Martin Dilan. Salazar, a long-time community organizer, is running for a Brooklyn district that includes parts of Williamsburg and Bushwick. Listen here. | |
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