Q&A Sunrise Movement: Activists apply climate pressure on US Congress 🔒
The remains of a fire-damaged hotel in the aftermath of the Beachie Creek fire in Gates, Oregon, US, September 14 2020. Human-induced global warming are considered to have helped create the out-of-control wildfires. Picture: REUTERS/SHANNON STAPLETON
It may seem modest, but several of these Sunrise candidates overtook establishment Democrats or else beat out party rivals who didn’t support the group’s Green New Deal agenda. That energy even helped US senator Ed Markey, who first introduced the climate resolution, fend off a primary challenge from a Kennedy in Massachusetts.
Even just having four people in the Squad [insurgent Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib] completely shifted the dynamic on a national scale. Now we could double the Squad by electing Marie Newman, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Mike Siegel, Mondaire Jones, and others. That will be a huge, huge boon to the progressive movement.
There are a lot of signs that show people are far more in that kind of alignment than even a few years ago. You see the emergence of movements on gun violence, immigrant rights, and saving black lives.There were some significant improvements made that would not have happened if the delegates from the Bernie Sanders team were not a part of it. For example, we were able to push up the timeline on decarbonising the power sector by 15 years, which is huge.
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