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Summer Lee: “Students are being disappeared for protesting tyranny and…”

Featuring: Summer Lee, Democratic | U.S. House Pennsylvania, District 12

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Rep. Summer Lee on Boycotting Trump Speech, Jesse Jackson, Voting Rights, "Endless Wars" & More

Published | Video Starts at 01:11

And at home, ICE agents are hunting down human beings and cities are under siege. The FBI is raiding election offices in Georgia. Students are being disappeared for protesting tyranny and genocide in Palestine. The environmental protections we earned after a generation of advocacy are being stripped. That was Pennsylvania Congresswoman Summer Lee giving the Working Families Party response to the State of the Union. (01:11–01:17)

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