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.
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. 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?
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.
Together,
Team Cori
P.S. If you want to read the whole article from Harper’s Bazaar, click here!
