"And She Could Be Next" documentary

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'And She Could Be Next' PBS: Rashida Tlaib on beating Trump - Los Angeles Times

It’s 2018. Rashida Tlaib is running for Congress. The cameras for the documentary series “And She Could Be Next” are following her. ...

Back then, Tlaib was one of many women from marginalized communities around the country who were running for office against all odds. “Let’s show them we belong here,” she tells a crowd of Black and immigrant voters. “They’ll have to learn how to say our names.”

And now they can’t stop talking about her. The progressive representative’s victory is one of many documented in the two-part “POV” series, which premieres Monday and continues Tuesday on PBS. It chronicles a year when women of color fueled a movement that transformed American society and politics.

Filmed over 2018 and 2019, the production chronicles the rise of female candidates and organizers such as Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, congresswomen Veronica Escobar (D-Texas) and Lucy McBath (D-Ga.), California state Sen. Maria Elena Durazo (Los Angeles) and Nse Ufot, executive director of the New Georgia Project. The series shows the ground-up ethos, and the constant push, that’s made female-led campaigns such as #BlackLivesMatter and Fair Fight, Abrams’ operation to end voter suppression, so effective.

“We’re running for office, and we’re winning, and we’re in this space now,” Tlaib, 43, said over the weekend from Detroit. “But no matter how many people we get into Congress, it’s the movement outside of the halls of Congress where decisions are made. The movement to stop oppression ... everything that’s happening is because we haven’t been heard or seen in the same way that so many other communities are.”

Seems like "Knock Down The House" - a documentary about AOC, Paula Jean Swearengin, Cori Bush, and Amy Vilela and their runs for office in 2018.

“One thing that is very clear: We can out-work the hate agenda,” said Tlaib. “We can out-work it through the protesting, the movement, the policy changes. It’s getting out there and speaking truth to power. It’s engaging and talking to people who have never been spoken to. All of that’s out-working the hate agenda that is being pushed from the White House.”

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“They don’t want us to humanize poverty, they don’t want us to humanize what’s happening in our incarceration system,” said Tlaib of politics as usual. “They don’t want us to talk about what killed George Floyd. That’s why they’re so focused on the Who. Because if they talked about the What, they would actually talk about corporate greed, the tainting of our government system, who’s corrupt, who sold us out and how the system is set up for the wealthy and not those that look like us. But here we are, talking about it.”

Seems like RT also is an activist at heart.