[ [link removed] ]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress




On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we must acknowledge our country’s ongoing
crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Since 2016, over 5,700
Indigenous women and girls have gone missing.^1

Angel Charley, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Violence
Against Native Women, testified during a House hearing earlier this year
about the dangerous link between missing and murdered Indigenous women and
fossil fuel companies. 

Fossil fuel industries bring non-local workers into what are known as ‘man
camps’ or temporary settlements that often exist right outside the
borderlands of Native communities. When these man camps are created, there
is an increase in violence, and particularly sexual violence, against
Native women. In February, two people working on the Line 3 Pipeline in
Minnesota were arrested in a sex trafficking sting.^2

But, many Indigenous nations do not have tribal jurisdiction over
non-Native offenders, which includes the majority of these fossil fuel
workers.

That’s why Alexandria and our movement fought to urgently pass the
Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022.

The reauthorized version of the Violence Against Women Act finally allows
Tribal courts to exercise jurisdiction over non-Native perpetrators of
sexual assault and sex trafficking. 

Charley said that the root of inaction to protect Native women “is the
devaluation of Indigenous lives since the onset of colonization.”

By expanding special criminal jurisdiction of Tribal courts to cover
non-Native perpetrators, Congress has taken an actionable step toward
better protecting Indigenous women and girls — but more still needs to be
done.

Today and always, our movement stands with our country’s Indigenous
communities, and we will not stop fighting until we are all liberated.

In solidarity,

Team AOC

 

1 - [ [link removed] ]Twitter
2 - [ [link removed] ]Twitter

[ [link removed] ]Donate


 

This email was sent to [email protected]. Email is the most important way we keep in touch with people like you, so thank you for reading to the end. Small donors like you keep us going. To contribute via check, please address to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress, PO Box 680080, Corona, NY 11368.



You can unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time:
[link removed]


PAID FOR BY ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ FOR CONGRESS