'I was not sent to Washington to play nice': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other new House progressives are tweeting their dissatisfaction with orientation at Harvard

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• A group of newly-elected progressive House Democrats are protesting their own congressional orientation program at Harvard's Kennedy school this week. 
• The future lawmakers have staged rallies and are tweeting their protests of the bipartisan events, which are co-sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 
• "Lobbyists are here. Goldman Sachs is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?" Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Thursday. 

Newly-elected progressive members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, abandoned their new member orientation at Harvard's Kennedy School on Tuesday night to lead a rally in support of single-payer healthcare, gun control, and laws to fight climate change outside in the freezing cold. 

"This is why the Democrats won. This is why we're in the majority. We refuse to put hope and aspiration and values on a shelf," said Pressley, a Massachusetts progressive who beat out a longtime incumbent Democrat for her seat. "I was not sent to Washington to play nice."

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