American election: who are the new young American activists?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is one of the new American political figures.
REUTERS / Jeenah Moon
By: Emmanuelle Bastide
2 min
As the US presidential campaign is peppered with police violence and protests, a young generation of activists, born and raised during the Afghan war and the 2008 financial crisis, are making their voices heard.
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They have been part of movements such as Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matters, and are often from minorities.
They challenge capitalism, the supremacism of Donald Trump's America.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rafael Shimunov, Destiny Harris: who are these young activists?
Will their ideals really be able to influence the vote of the country strongly marked by the health and economic crisis?
And what about young people who, on the contrary, defend Trump's record?
With
:
Mathieu Magnaudeix
, journalist, United States correspondent for
Mediapart.
Author of
Generation Ocasio-Cortez, the new American activists
(Éditions La Découverte)
Christophe Deroubaix,
journalist at
L'Humanité
.
author of
Millenials, the generation shaking America
(Editions de l'Atelier)
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