Lauren, whose campaign you can learn about here https://laurenashcraft.com/ , talks about how the lives & deaths of her relatives shaped her politics. Her paternal grandfather died in the 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster, which killed 99 people. Her grandmother, a Japanese immigrant...
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learned about the accident, which was the result of "the greed and shortcuts of a corporation that did not prioritize the safety of its workers," on the news. She barely spoke English and survived on small social security checks, and went to night school to become a nurse...
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Lauren's maternal grandfather fell and broke his neck, becoming a quadriplegic, when she was in high school and she saw first hand the difficulties faced by people living with disabilities & the insufficiency of the
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was murdered by a white adult annoyed by the volume of the music coming out of the car Jordan was in. Ron & Jordan's mother,
@RepLucyMcBath, turned their grief into activism. Ron founded http://www.walkwithjordan.org/ & made the doc "1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets" https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/catalog.3-1-2-minutes-ten-bullets …...Afficher cette discussion -
Lucy ran for congress and won! Uncle Bobby's nephew Oscar Grant, a 22 year old unarmed Black father was murdered by a policeman. Uncle Bobby founded the Love not Blood campaign. Ron and Uncle Bobby are in town for a performance of
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you can watch on Livestream Sunday at 3pmhttps://www.rattlestick.org/20192020-season/2019/12/8/i-am-troy-davis …
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Lauren Ashcraft is growing a large grassroots campaign to drive an establishment incumbent out of their seat in Congress, bringing progressive representation to Washington D.C. & fight for progressive policy to ensure prosperity & justice is delivered to her district & abroad.
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Thank you so much !! :) also side note, happy birthday
@ninaturner !!
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