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[New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:] Source: LYBIO.NET
Coming forward today is to make sure that we – whenever we come out, whenever we activate, it’s not always in resistance. It’s not always to protest the things that we want, or prevent you know – the expansion of a world that is unjust.

But we also come together to put together a vision of the world that we want to build for ourselves and that is what today is all about.



Because when we come together and we decide that we’re gonna shut down Rikers, and we’re gonna turn it not into a playground for the real-estate lobby, and not into a playground for the rich, but we’re gonna put it, and we’re gonna transform it into a public good for all people that is what this is about – we have professors in there – there will be livestreams you can catch it – but we’ve seen is that – is that Professor [NAME] [NAME] commissioned a study and she saw, but rather she conducted a study, she saw that if you just put 25% of Rikers Island – just 25% of Rikers Island and cover it in solar panels, we can close every toxic power plant in New York City that was built in the last two decades.

And we have to always show – and we have to always realize that these injustices aren’t abstract. Right?

The clean air – our right to clean air and our right and access to clean water always falls along lines of income, it falls along lines of privilege.

And so what we need to make sure is that no child is getting subjected to asthma because of the family that they were born in and the ZIP code that they were born in and that no person should get led in their water because they couldn’t afford to live in a high rise apartment, these are no luxuries – these are rights. They are rights to us.

[New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:] Source: LYBIO.NET
And so my vision, and what I’m so excited to show and to discuss is how we’re gonna move forward – how we’re – not only how we’re gonna stop the bad things, but how we’re gonna heal and build for our future that positive vision is what’s going to keep us going. And you know we have always said, what we were saying is we first introduced the Green New Deal, we talked about this. We named front line communities we said we’re gonna – it’s not about just transitioning to solar – it’s about fixing the pipes in Flint, it’s about making sure that –

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC Let's Cover Rikers Island In Solar Panels
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC Let’s Cover Rikers Island In Solar Panels

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