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A GREEN NEW DEAL
What is a Green New Deal?
The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan for how we can eliminate poverty and create millions of jobs while tackling the biggest threat of our time: climate change. It involves massive public investment in clean energy, transit and climate adaptation work. But the vision is bigger than that: it’s about transforming our entire economy to be safer and more fair, and give everyone a better life. First proposed in the U.S., the Green New Deal is now spreading around the world.
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In 2015, we joined with dozens of movement leaders to draft the Leap Manifesto, a 15-point plan for how Canada can decarbonize its economy based on principles of justice. We’re excited about the Green New Deal because it’s even more ambitious than the Manifesto, and it’s being backed by both grassroots movements and politicians.
Podcast: The Green New Deal
On the first episode of our new podcast Change Everything, we talk to Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, about the bold idea sweeping the U.S. political landscape known as the Green New Deal. And we explore the opportunities and challenges of bringing the Green New Deal frame to Canada. Learn more about Change Everything.
Green New Deal on Twitter
What an amazing day. These @sunrisemvmt folks weren't kidding about a new dawn. They are bringing it and we might just get a #GreenNewDeal https://t.co/p1l6OddlaK
— Naomi Klein (@NaomiAKlein) December 11, 2018
Green New Deal & Yellow Vests
— Climate Justice Alliance (@CJAOurPower) January 29, 2019
Is the #ClimateMovement heating up? #ClimateJustice activists discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of the future without waiting for anyone: https://t.co/tWbzzsMfBA#GreenNewDeal #YellowVests pic.twitter.com/awwzJ2hIfO
As the movement for a #GreenNewDeal achieves lift-off in the U.S. - becoming the most ambitious climate proposal Americans have ever heard from their elected officials - Justin Trudeau is working to prop up the fossil fuel industry. https://t.co/aDRAwukLLm
— The Leap (@TheLeap_Org) December 20, 2018
What is the #GreenNewDeal? What should it look like in #Canada? Here I lay out some ideas of actually building a transformative environmental vision that includes social, racisl and economic justice. https://t.co/cslthyN00Z
— hussan (@hussansk) January 16, 2019
...and we have #GreenNewDeal lift-off! ??
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 14, 2018
Never underestimate the power of public imagination. pic.twitter.com/h4PqqPucEX
How do you know that a #GreenNewDeal is a winning platform?
— Sunrise Movement ? (@sunrisemvmt) January 29, 2019
when ur opposition is so scared of ur success it starts calling for a nationwide counter movement "to defeat the Green New Deal & stop socialism with an ambitious, pro-liberty plan of our own" ?https://t.co/Nj36UrWxS1
The Green New Deal endorsed by @KamalaHarris is a WW2-scale mobilization of our economy toward:
— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) January 29, 2019
✅ Net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
✅ A federal job guarantee for any American who wants one
✅ A just transition for all communities and workers.https://t.co/E3jMYYCjw9
I wrote a lot of words about the world a Green New Deal could build https://t.co/l9UKmuH0z7
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) December 5, 2018