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Since Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, he has welcomed white supremacists (including Donald Trump) back on the app and fired almost 50% of employees — including the team that previously monitored and censored hate speech.
Cori has been relentlessly speaking out about Elon's anti-worker business practices and the danger of this deal, and when Elon made hateful and false comments about the Ferguson protests.
Cori made sure Elon's comments received the response they deserved. Check what Cori had to say:
"Elon Musk, leave St. Louis/Ferguson out of your disingenuous, ignorant pseudo-intellectualism. You don’t know the first thing about our movement.
The last time I checked, not a single person is asking an out-of-touch, failed businessman, the son of an apartheid benefactor who harvested emeralds on the backs of Black people in South Africa his thoughts on a Black-led social movement.
The attacks on our democracy through voter ID laws, ballot roll purges, and disinformation campaigns are disproportionately threatening Black and brown voters. We must work toward achieving equity in our government and ensuring all communities have a voice and vote in our democracy.
Leave St. Louis out of your mouth."
Cori will always fight and lift up our movement to save lives. It's so important that we keep people-first leaders like Cori in office, so we're asking: If you agree, will you chip in $5 or more so that we can create a new kind of politics that centers the priorities of everyday families, not billionaires?
Elon Musk is a danger to our democracy. Under his leadership, Twitter is becoming a haven for extremism as several antifascist organizers and journalists are seeing their accounts suspended. The truth is, this deal should have never happened.
During a time when everyday Americans are struggling to make rent, put food on the table, and stay healthy during an ever-changing pandemic, we need to put power back in the hands of the people — not a select few billionaires.
Billionaires like Elon Musk exploit our suffering, our labor, and our system — and increasingly are fighting to consolidate power in their hands. That's why Cori's working in Congress to tax the rich, take our wealth back for everyday families, and legislate in favor of workers unionizing around the country.
We are so proud of Cori's leadership, and we will continue this fight. Together.
— Team Cori
