Name: AOC Democratic National Convention 2020 Address Seconding Nomination of Senator Sanders | Videos | Gan Jing World
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Description: At the Democratic National Convention, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a nominating speech for Senator Sanders. It's tradition at Conventions f... | Videos | Gan Jing World

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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At the Democratic National Convention, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a nominating speech for Senator Sanders. It's tradition at Conventions for runners up to recieve nominating speeches. The Congresswoman extends her deepest congratulations to Vice President Joe Biden on his nomination.

A full message from the Congresswoman on her remarks follows:
I just spoke at the Democratic National Convention, and my 60-second message at the DNC was simple: the movement for guaranteed healthcare, racial justice, labor rights, and a just economy is here, it is growing, and is committed to winning in November.
We are, and must be, laser-focused on organizing the mass-mobilization necessary to defeat Donald Trump. A key part of that task is winning over crucial margins of swing-voters towards Vice President Biden in precincts across the country. But that task alone will not win us this election — we must also add those margins to an unprecedented, mass turnout event of young people, people of color, and working-class people of all identities in order to be successful. And one of the best ways to do that is to allow the movement for 21st-century social, economic, and human rights to flourish.
While Senator Sanders didn’t win the nomination, the mass movement of everyday people demanding systemic solutions to social, racial, and economic injustice is not going away anytime soon. It is a defining generational cause, one that has been slowly building for decades, and is only getting stronger with recent, shocking victories like Jamaal Bowman’s, Cori Bush’s, Mondaire Jones’, and Marie Newman’s. For generations, the progressive movement has been working and organizing to win the fight for civil, economic, and social liberties. Today, it is stronger than ever. The future of the Democratic Party, and the future of this country, are everyday people like you.
We must defeat Donald Trump. Doing so will require progressive, mass-movement politics that dramatically expands the electorate in November and unapologetically fights for working-class and marginalized people. And a major element of that task is sincerely and honestly addressing the slow-growing yet massive injustices that contributed to the apathy and anger that helped bring the chaos of Trump’s presidency in the first place.
As progressives, we are here to fight for guaranteed healthcare, higher education, living wages, and labor rights for all people in the United States.
We are here to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny, and homophobia, and replace the structures perpetuating them with more just ones.
We are here to reimagine our systems of immigration and foreign policy in a manner that turns away from the violence and xenophobia of the past, so we can lead a sustainable future that we are proud to leave to future generations.
That’s the future of our movement. That’s the future of the Democratic Party. That’s the future of the country that we are committed to building together.
Yours always,
Alexandria