The Detroit Kid Whose School Had No Textbooks Is Running for Congress
Aisha Farooqi is running for Michigan's 11th District on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, and getting corporate money out of politics.
The only woman in a crowded MI-11 race, Aisha sits down with Breaking the Meta for an honest, unscripted conversation about who she is and what she'll actually fight for. A child of immigrants who came to the U.S. from Pakistan in 1993, she grew up in Detroit Public Schools — including a semester with no textbooks, where a teacher paid out of his own pocket — before becoming an attorney, legal aid lawyer, and juvenile prosecutor.
We get into the issues…
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