'I grew up never thinking that I had a voice...but my eyes were opened up to what was happening, and I would not close them again.'
spoke with Vilela about her crusade for health, race, class, and environmental justice, and why she wants Sanders to win.: When did you start telling Shalynne’s story? Can you talk about the reactions to the story across the political spectrum?It took me a minute, but I began to understand how the mix of political corruption and greed had played a part in my daughter’s death.
When I have a chance to speak to people face to face and tell them the story of my daughter and why I’m supporting Medicare for All, and actually have the opportunity to relate it to their own life experiences, political party is not a part of that conversation. When it comes down to it, all of us are in this fight together, regardless if you are a Republican, Independent, Democrat. However you affiliate politically, health care affects all of us. It crosses over political lines.
But it was tough to be an insurgent candidate. I’m proud we ran an issue-focused campaign. I don’t think anyone can deny that I have moved the needle in southern Nevada on issues that matter to progressives and to all of the working class, from Medicare for All to a Green New Deal.end up supporting Medicare for All. I was actually with him in Washington, D.C. He read Shalynne’s story into the congressional record.
As a Nevada co-chair, I use my experience and my work as a former candidate and community activist to lend any help I can provide to our state operations. I feel very much involved in the community, and I use much of my spare time to go to events of the campaign, speak to other community leaders about our movement and why Bernie is our best chance to bring about the change we so desperately need, not only in Nevada but across the nation.in its demographics and its diversity.
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