Ahead of Philadelphia’s mayoral election this Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders joined a rally for Helen Gym to get out the vote.
“We have been having a public debate around safety and investment in the United States of America and there are people that are trying to lead us to believe that militarized cities all across this country, that defund schools, that defund our public institutions are what keep us safe.
However, a growing grassroots movement has been bubbling and growing and blooming across the country that says there is a better way. A movement that says we keep us safe. A movement that says community keeps us safe.
A movement that says we keep us safe.
A movement that says community keeps us safe.
Schools keep us safe.
Healthcare for all keeps us safe
That loving the homeless keeps us safe.
That standing up and defending our Trans and LGBT siblings keeps us safe.
Helen Gym will keep this city safe.”
-AOC
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