Post by Admin on Jan 20, 2019 0:01:00 GMT
Ocasio-Cortez’s Women’s Rally Speech Was a Fierce Call to Action
On Saturday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended the 2019 Women’s March and gave a powerful speech at the Women’s Unity Rally about civil rights, justice, and why being polite is not the same as being quiet.
The representative from New York started out her speech at the rally — which was co-chaired by the Women’s March NYC and the New York Immigration Coalition — by thanking the crowd before asking, “Are you all ready to make a ruckus? Are you all ready to fight for our rights? Are you all ready to say that in the United States of America, everyone is loved, everyone deserves justice, and everyone deserves equal protection and prosperity in our country?”
She went on to speak about the fact that the rally occurred the weekend before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, saying that she believes “this moment and where we are right now is a resurgence from where the civil rights movement left off. And we are here to carry the torch forward.” Ocasio-Cortez noted that discussions around the issues of racial and social justice have since been extended to include economic and environmental justice.
www.thecut.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-womens-march-2019-speech.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=di
On Saturday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attended the 2019 Women’s March and gave a powerful speech at the Women’s Unity Rally about civil rights, justice, and why being polite is not the same as being quiet.
The representative from New York started out her speech at the rally — which was co-chaired by the Women’s March NYC and the New York Immigration Coalition — by thanking the crowd before asking, “Are you all ready to make a ruckus? Are you all ready to fight for our rights? Are you all ready to say that in the United States of America, everyone is loved, everyone deserves justice, and everyone deserves equal protection and prosperity in our country?”
She went on to speak about the fact that the rally occurred the weekend before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, saying that she believes “this moment and where we are right now is a resurgence from where the civil rights movement left off. And we are here to carry the torch forward.” Ocasio-Cortez noted that discussions around the issues of racial and social justice have since been extended to include economic and environmental justice.
www.thecut.com/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-womens-march-2019-speech.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=di