Ocasio-Cortez says fossil fuel industry to blame for missing and murdered indigenous women

Socialist Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said that the crisis of missing and murdered indigenous women was connected to the proliferation of fossil fuel extraction cites in the United States.

Ocasio-Cortez was speaking at a congressional meeting on “The Neglected Epidemic of Missing BIPOC Women and Girls” when she made the comments on March 3.
“Today, I want to discuss part of this crisis that is all too often overlooked, but whose evidence shows that there’s a very meaningful connection here: The correlation between fossil fuel extraction sites and abductions and murders of indigenous women across the United States,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

She asked Angel Charley, the executive director of the Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women, to explain why they believed the two were related. Charley said that extraction sites would often lead to hastily organized “man camps” of workers in regions with indigenous and other minori …

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