Raise the minimum wage.
Legalize marijuana.
Cancel student debt.
Pass Medicare for All.
Barbara Lee
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Barbara Lee
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- Defund the Pentagon budget.
- Poverty isn’t a choice — but funding endless wars and giving tax breaks to the wealthy are.
- Nearly 100 years ago, a self-sufficient African-American neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma known as “Black Wall Street” was destroyed. An estimated 300 people were murdered in racially-motivated attacks. We cannot let ourselves forget this painful history.
- Repeat after me: housing is a human right and public health issue.
- When I got my abortion Roe v. Wade didn’t exist. I had to travel to Juárez, Mexico with $200 to a back-alley clinic.
- Thank you, Shirley Chisolm.
- Shirley Chisholm is often remembered for being the first African American woman elected to Congress. But she should also be remembered for what she accomplished. She was instrumental in creating the national school lunch program, expanding food stamps, and establishing WIC.
- Raising the minimum wage to $15 would lift 900,000 people out of poverty. Tell me how that’s not relief?
- 🗣️ Trump 🗣️ does 🗣️ not 🗣️ have 🗣️ Constitutional 🗣️ authority 🗣️ to 🗣️ go 🗣️ to 🗣️ war 🗣️ with 🗣️ Iran.
- I've got 99 problems and Mitch is every one of them.Move, Mitch, get out the way.
- Shirley Chisholm is often remembered for being the first African American woman elected to Congress. But she should also be remembered for what she accomplished. She was instrumental in creating the national school lunch program, expanding food stamps, and establishing WIC.
- Can we take a moment to celebrate @KamalaHarris for making history as the first Black and South Asian woman to take the vice presidential debate stage? 💪🏿
- My heart has never been more full. Today, I tie the knot with the most wonderful man I’ve ever met, Rev. Dr. Clyde W. Oden Jr. I look forward to welcoming Clyde as my newest constituent and introducing him to you as my kind and loving husband. Happy New Year’s Eve!
