AOC on the Republican Budget Bill

 AOC on the Republican Budget Bill.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/aoc-on-the-republican-budget-bill

36,000 Join Sanders and AOC in Los Angeles Today; Fight Oligarchy Tour

 This movement is not about partisan labels or purity tests; it's about class solidarity.

It is about the thousands of people who came out in Los Angeles today to stand together and say our lives deserve dignity and our work deserves respect.

We can either have extreme wealth inequality with the toxic division and corruption that it requires to survive—or we can have a fair economy that guarantees health care to all, for working people, along with a democracy and freedoms that uphold it.

Oligarchy or democracy, but we cannot have both. I've made my choice.

We must fight the oligarchy that has created this nightmare. And that is why I have never taken money from lobbyists or corporations, and it's why I never will.   AOC. 

Venue Change: Sanders and AOC in Folsom California

TPlease be advised that there is a venue change: we will now be at the Folsom Lake College Athletic Track in Folsom, CA.

Here's everything you need to know:

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Folsom
With Special Guest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tuesday, April 15
3:30pm PDT Doors Open
6:00pm PDT Speaking Program Starts
Folsom Lake College Athletic Track

10 College Pkwy, Folsom, CA 95630 

Bernie and AOC Coming to Auburn California- Tuesday.

Bernie’s coming to Auburn on Tuesday, April 15, and you’re invited! He’ll be speaking alongside Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about how our movement can come together to take on the Oligarchy and demand a government that works for all of us, not just the wealthy few.

This is going to be a great event, and we’d love to see you there. So, can you make it? Here’s everything you need to know:

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Auburn
With Special Guest Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Tuesday, April 15
3:30pm PDT Doors Open
6:00pm PDT Speaking Program Starts
Gold Country Fairgrounds and Event Center

209 Fairgate Road, Auburn, CA 95603 

AOC and Oligarchy

I am here to remind you all: we are not powerless in this moment.

People are starting to put the pieces together, 

And that’s important, because the same billionaires that are taking a wrecking ball to our country specialize in getting working people to turn on one another.

I understand that this disdain for working people, by some of the most powerful people in this country, doesn’t just come from them not being raised right.

There’s a word for this kind of thing: corruption.

I understand what it feels like to watch all of this stack up. When the system is stacked against you, it’s hard to feel like anything you do matters.

I can tell you: when I was waitressing, and struggling to put food on the table, for a while there, I tried to keep my head down, work my shifts, and accept that this is just how things are.

But that’s no way to live.

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hold Rally in Denver

AOC on Gaza and Young People, Biden and the Democrats

Start at 29 minutes. 

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - Solidarity Is the Strategy. UAW

AOC Speaks at UAW Strike Rally Solidarity IS the strategy

AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long

  

AOC and the Squad’s List of Left-Wing Accomplishments Is Quite Long

 

BY

BRANKO MARCETIC

As with any elected official, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Squad should be criticized when needed. But left-wing vitriol is unwarranted: it ignores the Squad’s many progressive accomplishments and their legislation’s aid to activist campaigns.

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It’s tough being a member of the “Squad” these days. Once the darlings of the American left, the group of progressive and socialist House members that includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, and others are as likely to be savaged these days from the Left as they are from the Right. Popular YouTube commentators regularly denounce them as “sellouts,” protesters interrupt their meetings calling them warmongers, and even committed socialists question what the point of the Squad has been.

The lion’s share of this ire has been trained on Representative Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who’s faced relentless criticism since winning office from all sides, sometimes over substantive issues (once failing to show up for an Amazon union rally, casting a vote that denied railworkers the ability to strike), sometimes over remarkably petty ones (conciliatory rhetoric, the positioning of her hands while being arrested).

Much of this was crystallized in a recent critical analysis of Ocasio-Cortez’s record in New York magazine by Freddie deBoer, who charged she has drifted “from radical outsider to Establishment liberal,” making mere “token gestures of resistance to solidify the illusion that she is a gadfly,” and argued that her and the rest of the Squad’s entry into Congress has been entirely fruitless.

Read more.

https://jacobin.com/2023/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-the-squad-left-criticism-policy-accomplishments

 

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking in front of the US Capitol, 2022. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Talking Socialism with Alexandreia Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her way to speak at NYC's Women's March. [Photo by Corey Torpie]

 

TALKING SOCIALISM | Catching up with AOC

MARCH 19, 2021 BY DON MCINTOSH, PUBLISHED ON DEMOCRATIC LEFT.

 

And so it was that first meeting that I felt, ‘Okay, this is something that’s real.’ Also, in the history of New York City and in communities of color, when you have the Young Lords and you have this organizing heritage, there has historically been tension between DSA and these organizing collectives of color, whether it was Latino and Puerto Rican collectives, Chicano collectives, black collectives…. It was like, “Oh, it’s these white folks. [LAUGHS.] There was this historical fissure. But it really felt like a moment where we were coming together. And so when I would see DSA showing up providing real structural support at BLM rallies, or support for abolishing ICE, where we felt like there wasn’t this class essentialism, but that this really was a multiracial class struggle that didn’t de-prioritize human rights, frankly, I was really impressed. And I felt like it was something worth being part of.

My run for Congress, so much of it was based in coalition building. In the New York City context, I wasn’t a DSA candidate that was homegrown from the start. I went through a process of earning the DSA endorsement. And that was in addition to stitching a collective together of the movement for Black lives and the movement for immigrant rights. Our congressional district is half immigrant, extraordinarily working class and just incredibly diverse in the Bronx and Queens. Along with Senator Sanders’s campaign, which I also proudly worked on, prior to all of this, you know, all of that, I think, really contributed to this moment.

And, for me, there’s a real distinction between us saying that we’re about something and us really being about it in our actions. And it was really that distinction, in the action and in the praxis, that made it distinctive to me and made it something to be a part of.

Read the entire interview on our blog

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/talking-socialism-catching-up-with-aoc

Or on Democratic Left.

https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/aoc/

 

 

AOC Interview On Divisions Within the Democratic Party

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘It's Bad.’ | All In | MSNBC