I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family

我並非在富裕權貴的家庭中長大

Mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx

我媽是波多黎各人，我爸是紐約南布朗克斯區人

I was born in a place where your zip code determines your destiny

我生在一個郵遞區號決定你命運的地方

My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

我叫 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I'm an educator, an organizer, a working class New Yorker

我是一名教育學者、組織幹部，也是紐約勞動階層

I've worked with expectant mothers, I've waited tables, and led classrooms

我和孕婦共事過、當過餐廳服務生，也教過書

and going into politics wasn't in the plan

而從政並非計畫的一部分

But after 20 years of the same representation, we have to ask:

但同個議員執政了 20 年，我們不得不質疑：

who has New York been changing for?

誰曾讓紐約改變了甚麼？

Every day gets harder for working families like mine to get by

像我一樣的勞工階層的日子一天比一天更艱難

The rent gets higher, health care covers less, and our income stays the same

房租上漲、醫療照護項目變少，而薪水仍維持不變

It's clear that these changes haven't been for us

很顯然，這些改變並不是為了我們

and we deserve a champion

人民值得一位新代表

It's time to fight for a New York that working families can afford

是時候為紐約勞動家庭的生活發聲了

That's why I'm running for Congress

所以，我決定競選眾議院議員

This race is about people vs. money

這是場人脈對上錢脈的競爭

We've got people, they've got money

我們有彼此，他們有錢

It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same

是時候該了解不是每個民主黨成員都一樣

That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here

那些收取公司政治獻金、靠抵押品獲利的民主黨成員沒跟我們住在一起

doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air

沒把小孩送到這裡的學校，沒跟我們喝一樣的水和呼吸一樣空氣的人

cannot possibly represent us

不可能會代表我們出聲

What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare-for-all, tuition-free public college

布魯克斯和皇后區需要的是免費醫療、免費公立大學學費

a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal justice reform

聯邦就業保障以及受刑人正義改革

We can do it now

現在就可以行動

It doesn't take a hundred years to do this

改變無需等待

It takes political courage

只需要改變政治的勇氣

A New York for the many is possible

關心多數人民權益的紐約可以實現

It's time for one of us

現在就開始行動

Vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on June 26

六月二十六號，把票投給 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez