[1]Cori Bush

Everyone’s talking about our movement,
John.

This week, Harper’s Bazaar published an article covering Cori’s activism
and the inspiration behind her bold leadership in Congress.

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From being the first activist from the movement in defense of Black lives
to be elected to Congress, to protesting outside the Capitol for five days
to demand an eviction moratorium – Cori’s leadership and people-powered
message is sending shockwaves across the country.



We’ll share with you some of our favorite moments from Cori’s interview
with Harper’s Bazaar later in this email. [ [link removed] ]After reading, will you chip
in $5 so Cori can continue working in Congress to save
lives, advocate for justice, and center people in our politics?

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In the article, Cori talks about her family’s experiences that motivated
her to run for Congress and inspire her work to legislate for people-first
change:

“I am a product of middle-ground policy. The fact that I lived low-wage
[jobs] for so many years, that my credit was so messed up because of the
poverty that I was living through, even though I was faithful to my job
for 10 years. What that does to you physically, living in places that
were unsafe. I’m a product of people not focusing on what mass
incarceration has done to our communities. My friends dying—my friends
who are now in prison, year after year.”

 The article goes through Cori’s decision to protest outside the Capitol
to demand an eviction moratorium:  

“I turned to my chief of staff and I said, ‘Let’s just sleep out here.
That’s what will be happening to the people affected,’” Bush says.

For Bush, the urgency came in part from personal experience. She has
been evicted three times in her life—the first, after a
domestic-violence incident; later, as a young mother recovering from
back-to-back pregnancies; and most recently in 2015, after she became
active in the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, instigated by the police
killing of Michael Brown. Bush has said in the past that she believes
this eviction was politically motivated, that neighbors worried she
would bring trouble to the block.

 And the article also brings up how attacks have been rising against
Cori’s work and what that means moving forward for our movement.

Cori says: “It’s our obligation as lawmakers to do the work that saves
lives — no matter how challenging that work might be.”

We’re glad that Cori was able to share her story with Harper’s Bazaar and
hopefully inspire more people to join our movement to save lives. But as
you can tell from this article, there’s still so much organizing and
legislating ahead of us to deliver urgent change to our communities.

[ [link removed] ]If you’re ready to rise up with us in this work, can you chip
in $5 or anything you can to help keep Cori in Congress?
The GOP has made it clear they’re threatened by her bold leadership and
will invest a record amount of money to attack Cori.

Together,

Team Cori

P.S. If you want to read the whole article from Harper’s Bazaar, [ [link removed] ]click
here!


 


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