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“Now we must begin creating justice,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday, following the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
The congresswoman issued her call to create justice in a tweet congratulating Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Specifically, she mentioned environmental action and improving “material conditions”:
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A historic day. Congratulations to our new President @JoeBiden and our new Vice President @KamalaHarris.
Now we must begin creating justice, healing our planet, and improving the material conditions for all people.
The work is on all of us to organize and build a better future.
Part of her justice-creation involves abolishing things. On Monday, she tweeted a call to “Abolish ICE” (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and last Friday she tweeted her desire to “Abolish the death penalty.”
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Following the election last November, Ocasio-Cortez implied that an archive of “Trump sycophants” should be created, so that they could be held accountable for supporting the president – and that their past speech will, somehow, be “deleted” – regardless of whether they expressed themselves through social media, writings, or photographs.
Later that month, she touted her $2 trillion Green New Deal plan as a way to create “environmental, racial, gender and class justice.”
In June of this year, Ocasio-Cortez said she embraces the term “radical,” because being radical is the way “to get to the root of the problem.”
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“What it really means is if you are radical you get to the root of problems,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Which is why I have never been offended and I embrace that term because it means that we believe the systemic problems require systemic solutions,” she explained.