“Barbara Lee is exemplary of the courage it takes to stick to your principles,” says Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the top of the new trailer for Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth…
“Barbara Lee is exemplary of the courage it takes to stick to your principles,” says Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the top of the new trailer forGreenwich Entertainment is distributing the film, which is directed by Abby Ginzberg .
A longtime advocate for social justice, Congresswoman Barbara Lee cast the sole vote in opposition to the authorization of military force after the September 11th attacks. “It was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the September 11 events,” she has said of the authorization. In the trailer, we hear legendary civil rights leader and Lee’s former House colleague John Lewis say, “She was right.
It also includes perspectives from Senator Cory Booker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, actor Danny Glover and Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Lisa Blunt Rochester.
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