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The media has defined Representative Rashida Talib

as someone who called Trump a motherfucker and as a

Palestinian-American Muslim woman who stands up for Palestinian liberation. She is of

course all of those things but she is also an environmental justice activist from the grassroots

a working-class warrior and DSA member born and raised in Detroit whose people she now represents in

Congress. Today's interview is a short interview at least by dig, with Representative Taleeb discussing the local struggles

that guide her work on behalf of the working class in Congress, their urgent need for a politics

that puts people over profit, the question of impeachment,

and also why Americans are coming around to supporting a free Palestine.

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