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Our role is to help build a militant mass working-class movement that is powerful enough to secure human flourishing for all beyond the critical next decades, not just survival for some.
"We are facing the greatest existential crisis humanity has ever faced. And yet it has been ignored. You who have ignored it know who you are.”
Political news coverage tends to focus on strategy over substance, and that’s making it less likely that the public will agree on big policy ideas when we need them the most.
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The policies of a Green New Deal require a robust and well-funded public sector with good union jobs. Because of the nature of public sector work, a Green New Deal disproportionately benefits women and people of color.
Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist from Sweden, has inspired kids in more than 98 countries to skip school.
Since unabashedly calling out President Donald Trump over his disastrous response to Puerto Rico's suffering after two massive hurricanes, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has pushed for a transformation that returns autonomy to the island’s people.
There may be no issue that lends itself better to a “which side are you on”-style politics than the climate crisis
Those are the stark options before us -- climate destruction or the Green New Deal. And which outcome we end up with depends on the actions taken by social movements in the next two years.
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