Friday, September 27, 2019

This is how we won the Civil Rights Act, the EPA, and it’s how we’ll win a Green New Deal Sunrise Varshini Prakash

Sunrise Varshini Prakash<team@sunrisemovement.org>
Al,
On Tuesday night, we held a mass video call to share our strategy to build off the momentum of the global climate strike. 1496 people attended! But in case you missed it, I wanted to update you on what we’re gonna be working on in the coming months.
Last Friday’s global climate strike was incredible. But we can’t stop here. In order to win a Green New Deal, we need to keep building pressure from now to election day 2020 and beyond.
History has shown us that the kind of societal transformation we need for a Green New Deal only comes when not just thousands, but millions of people take to the streets to demand it--and not just once, but again and again. Repeated, mass mobilization that forces the political establishment to act is what won us the Civil Rights Act, the Environmental Protection Agency, and more.
So we’re gonna keep striking.
We’re already planning our next strikes, starting with one more this fall (date to be announced soon), and a truly massive strike on April 22nd 2020, the 50th Earth Day. At these next strikes, we’re gonna carry forward the momentum of the global climate strike but take things even bigger.
We’ll recruit and train to meet our goals through strike circles: a program we’ve developed to help new young leaders grow the movement wherever they are. Anyone can lead a strike circle just by recruiting 6-20 friends to join you at a meeting every week. Then we provide 6 meeting agendas and videos that guide you every step of the way as your circle preps to strike. Just since Tuesday’s mass call, 360 strike circles have already gotten started.
I know we can do this, because we’ve already achieved goals far beyond what the political establishment deemed possible. Last week, Vox published an article in which they declared, “Sunrise is known for two things: how young it is, and how effective it has been so quickly.”1 Politicians and media everywhere are taking notice of just how much of a force our movement is. We’re already winning--all we have to do now is keep moving forward.
Varshini Prakash

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