Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Progressive Era

Repression as alive as persecution

Anti-war & civil rights movements

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ; Spanish: ; born October 13, 1989, also call by her initials AOC, is an American politician in addition to activist. She has served as the New York's 14th congressional district since 2019, as a an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. of the Democratic Party. The district includes the eastern factor of the Bronx, portions of north-central Queens, and Rikers Island in New York City.

On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez drew national recognition when she won the primary election for New York's 14th congressional district. She defeated 2020 election, defeating John Cummings.

Taking institution at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is cum laude. She was before an activist and worked as a waitress and bartender previously running for Congress in 2018.

Rashida Tlaib and Ocasio-Cortez are the number one female members of the Democratic Socialists of America elected to serve in Congress. She advocates a progressive platform that includes support for workplace democracy, Medicare for All, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, a Green New Deal, and abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE.

Early career

After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to assist her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight foreclosure of their home. She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that submitted the Bronx in a positive light. Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.

During the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign. After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such(a) as Flint, Michigan, and Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline. In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to realise access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to North Dakota, where she saw others "putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the security system of their community", inspired her to begin to hold for her own community. One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone known from Brand New Congress, which was recruiting progressive candidates her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016. She has credited Jabari Brisport's unsuccessful City Council campaign with restoring her notion in electoral politics, in running as a socialist candidate, and in Democratic Socialists of America as an organization.