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Next up is Taji Chesimet, "student, leader and activist." Talking about why young people need to be at the forefront of this conversation. "I'm fed up with the way my voice and people like me are ignored." Youth aren't just the future, they're the present.
"The inaction of electeds is a failure of leadership." - Taji in #StateofOurPortland "$15M is not what the people asked for." Points to the needs that Sarah identified as the policies the city needs.
"All of these policies are policies Sarah has mentioned verbatim in her public safety plans. I am very thankful for Sarah's campaign for offering youth a chance to speak on this issue. We have a duty to vote in November for a leader like Sarah who will stand with us."
Our Portland is a thriving city that every one of us has a part in creating - community activists, neighbors, workers, youth and seniors, students and educators, Black, Brown, Indigenous, Asian, White, Latinx, Middle Eastern, ...
Pacific Islander, African, Slavic, multiracial, able and disabled, queer and trans, citizen, resident, and undocumented, gendered and nonbinary...
every last one of us… has an important role to play in making Our Portland the city it deserves to be. The city we all deserve. The city our children deserve and that the future requires.
"Portland is becoming a central focus for that fight. It's important that our city fight back to ensure that any erosion of Civil Rights doesn't happen here." - @Bobbin_Singh
"What COVID-19 revealed... is all system inequities. Things largely unnecessary in our society. We've massively restructured. We've been able to reduce our jail populations. In some jurisdictions up to 75%. It highlights there are things we are doing that don't contribute to ...
community well-being." @Bobbin_Singh uses this phrase instead of "public safety" because it isn't about us vs. them - it's about the well-being of everyone in the community. #StateofOurPortland
We're live with #StateofOurPortland - stay tuned for the spoken remarks! Jeff Selby is our announcer, and he brought Campaign Director Greg McKelvey on to speak. Greg starts with the story of how Sarah tapped him to help lead.
Following Sarah Iannarone "was the best choice I ever made." Not because she had all the answers, but because she knows who to talk to.
"It's not normal for somebody to pick a #BlackLivesMatter organizer to be her campaign director." - @GregoryMcKelvey on Sarah's choice. "In the primary we were consistently seen as the leading challenger."
