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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Nova Iorque, 13 de outubro de 1989), também conhecida por suas iniciais AOC, é uma política, ativista e organizadora comunitária dos Estados Unidos, atualmente servindo como congressista na Câmara dos Representantes por Nova Iorque.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( / oʊˌkɑːsioʊ kɔːrˈtɛz / ⓘ oh-KAH-see-oh kor-TEZ, Spanish: [aleɣˈsandɾja oˈkasjo koɾˈtes]; born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials AOC, is an American left-wing politician and activist.
20 de fev. de 2019 · A congressista de 29 anos se tornou um ícone de massas com suas propostas socialistas e críticas à corrupção. Saiba como ela surpreendeu o mundo político norte-americano e se tornou uma celebridade nas redes sociais.
16 de abr. de 2024 · The official website of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th Congressional District. Find news, issues, events, and contact information.
- Overview
- Early life and career
- “Turning point”
- Campaign for the NY-14 congressional seat
- First term: The Green New Deal
- Second term
- Third term
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (born October 13, 1989, Bronx, New York, U.S.) American politician and activist who began representing New York’s 14th congressional district (NY-14) in 2019. Taking office at the age of 29, she became the youngest woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Ocasio-Cortez identifies as a democratic socialist and is known for her p...
Ocasio-Cortez was born into a working-class family that resided in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. Her father, Sergio Ocasio-Roman, was of Puerto Rican descent and owned a small architectural firm, and her mother, Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez), was born in Puerto Rico and cleaned houses. When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was about five years old, her parents moved her and her younger brother, Gabriel Ocasio-Cortez, to Yorktown Heights, an affluent suburb located 45 miles (72 kilometres) north of New York City. There they hoped the children could go to better schools, and, indeed, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez learned early on how her location offered her more educational opportunities than those of her cousins who remained in the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Yorktown High School in 2007 and enrolled at Boston University. Like many college-bound students of her generation, she obtained student loans to pay her tuition. In 2008 she interned at the foreign affairs and immigration office of Sen. Ted Kennedy, where she worked until his death in 2009. She later spoke about how the experience offered her a firsthand look at the distress families underwent after being separated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By then Ocasio-Cortez had also suffered hardship. Her father had died of lung cancer in 2008. He left no will, and the struggle to process the estate, combined with paying his medical bills, put her and her family under immense financial strain. Her mother took extra work as a school bus driver to support herself. In 2011 Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude with degrees in both international relations and economics. Her postcollege career was similar to that of many graduates seeking work following the Great Recession. She returned to the Bronx, where she took a job in the nonprofit sector and supplemented that income by bartending and waiting tables. Ocasio-Cortez nonetheless lived paycheck to paycheck with high monthly expenses that included $200 for an Affordable Care Act health insurance plan with a large deductible and $300 toward repaying her student debt.
In 2016 Ocasio-Cortez served as an organizer for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. That December the future congresswoman took a cross-country road trip with friends. They visited Flint, Michigan, where tens of thousands of residents had been exposed to dangerous levels of lead in their water, and they also joined the Standing Rock ...
Ocasio-Cortez faced a David-and-Goliath kind of primary: her opponent, incumbent Joe Crowley, was a powerful Democrat who had held the seat since 1999. He was the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Caucus, the subgroup in which every House Democrat is a member and which elects the leaders of the House Democrats, approves committe...
Ocasio-Cortez’s long-shot win, combined with her socialist stances and personal charisma, instantly made her a national media sensation. On cable and broadcast news networks, as well as in major newspapers, the freshman congresswoman received an extraordinary amount of coverage. She used the attention to lay out a sweeping vision for the future of the country, introducing as her first piece of legislation a 14-page resolution, “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.” The manifesto-like document, which received 101 cosponsors, called for a “10-year national mobilization” that would end dependence on fossil fuels while addressing economic and social injustice. The legislation did not pass, but it started a long-delayed discussion among politicians in Washington about legislation to slow climate change. During the rest of her first term, the congresswoman passed amendments to fund treatment for opioid addiction, clean up toxic bomb-testing sites in Puerto Rico, and reimburse funeral expenses to Americans whose family members died from COVID-19.
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Handily winning reelection in November of 2020, Ocasio-Cortez was sworn in for her second term in Congress on January 3, 2021. Days later the congresswoman found herself hiding in her office during the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack, an attempt by supporters of Donald Trump to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Ocasio-Cortez later voted in favour of Donald Trump’s second impeachment for having incited the event, and she called for any members of Congress who had likewise encouraged the insurrection to be expelled. The following month, the congresswoman revealed in an Instagram Live video that she was once sexually assaulted and likened Republicans’ downplaying of the insurrection to the tactics of abusers. The congresswoman eventually expanded on that personal experience while at a rally for reproductive rights. She disclosed that she had been raped at the age of 23.
In 2021, during her second term, Ocasio-Cortez voted for the American Rescue Plan Act, a $1.9 trillion economic relief package aiming to help the country recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which added amendments to the Paycheck Protection Program, but she broke with her party by voting against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act due to its lack of social safety net provisions.
In 2022 Ocasio-Cortez ran for a third term unopposed in the Democratic Party and easily dispatched her opponents in the general election. She also announced her engagement to her longtime partner Riley Roberts.
27 de jun. de 2018 · Learn about the life, education and platform of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the American Democratic Socialist who made headlines by defeating a 10-term incumbent in 2018 and becoming the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 2019. Find out how she campaigned on progressive issues such as abolishing ICE, criminal justice reform, tuition-free college and universal healthcare, and speaking out on abortion, border and social issues.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) is the official Twitter account of the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district. Follow her to get updates on her work, views, and initiatives on various issues, such as climate change, health care, and social justice. Join the conversation with #RepAOC and see how she engages with other Twitter users, including state-backed ...
