Green New Deal

Uniting For A Green New Deal

January 13, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance. Newsletter Climate Change, Green New Deal, Inequality, Jobs and Wages, Wars and Militarism

Support is growing in the United States for a Green New Deal. Though there are competing visions for what that looks like, essentially, a Green New Deal includes a rapid transition to a clean energy economy, a jobs program and a stronger social safety net. We need a Green New Deal for many reasons, most obviously the climate crisis and growing economic insecurity. Each new climate report describes the severe consequences of climate change with increasing alarm and the window of opportunity for action is closing. At the same time, wealth inequality is also growing.

Raising The Bar On The Green New Deal

January 13, 2019 Bruce Dixon, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Climate Change, Democrats, Green New Deal, Green party

There’s a lot of talk lately about the Green New Deal. The phrase was first used in the US by Howie Hawkins , the Green party candidate for governor in New York state in 2010, 2014 and 2018. Howie says he stole it from the European Greens who’d been intrigued by the old American New Deal of the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt. European Greens wanted to regulate the banking sector, something we can't seem to do here. They wanted to raise wages, to shorten working weeks, to stimulate the economy with massive infrastructure upgrades and repair, and to pay for the whole thing with higher taxes on the rich, all of that straight out of the playbook of the 1930s, plus putting the economies of their countries on a path to zero emissions .

Indigenous Leaders Support A Green New Deal

January 13, 2019 Kelsey Hill, Lakota Law Project. Educate! Climate Change, Congress, Green New Deal, Indigenous Rights

True environmental and historical justice necessitates that new climate policy not only ensure heavy investment in green jobs and infrastructure for Indigenous communities, but that it directly involve leadership and input from Native people. An Indigenized Green New Deal is our best legislative shot at creating an equitable and just transition to a climate-conscious future that both acknowledges and amends the errors of our country’s past. By ensuring that Indigenous values, voices, and lands are adequately represented, we can ensure a livable climate for the next seven generations and beyond.

More Than 600 Groups Tell Congress To Build Green Economy

January 11, 2019 Friends of the Earth. Organize! Clean Energy, Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Green New Deal

Washington, D.C. – More than 600 environmental groups today called on the U.S. House of Representatives to pursue ambitious climate legislation that matches the scale and urgency of the climate crisis. The groups’ letter calls for a thoughtful phaseout of fossil fuel production, a transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, complete decarbonization of the transportation system, use of the Clean Air Act to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a just transition to a new green economy and the adherence to treaties upholding Indigenous rights when pursuing these actions.

Winning The Green New Deal

January 1, 2019 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG. Podcast Climate Change, Democrats, Green New Deal, Green party

The Green New Deal, a plan to transform the economy to one based on clean, renewable energy sources and other measures to adapt to the climate crisis and protect human rights, gained widespread attention in 2018. We speak with Howie Hawkins from New York, who brought the concept of the Green New Deal to the United States, about what the plan involves, where it is now and what it will take to win it. Hawkins, a long time activist, unionist and political candidate, also puts this struggle in the context of political history and the role of third parties.

12 Reasons Labor Should Demand a Green New Deal

December 16, 2018 By Jeremy Brecher and Joe Uehlein, In These Times Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Labor Movement

The Green New Deal is poised to become a factor in the 2020 elections. Labor unions should take this opportunity to embrace the proposal—and fight to make sure it’s a strong vehicle for advancing workers’ rights. While current proposals for a Green New Deal align with workers’ interests, organized labor brings traditions and insights that can make them even more compelling. Incorporating worker demands in the Green New Deal program will pay benefits long before they can be implemented at a national level.

Congress And States Should Enact A Green New Deal

December 14, 2018 Mark Dunlea, Popular Resistance. Create! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Green party, New Economy

While many candidates in 2018 used the phrase the Green New Deal to highlight that a transition to renewable energy would help create living wage jobs, AOC’s proposal for a plan for 100% clean energy by 2030, single payer health care and other economic measures comes much closer to the GND developed by the Green Party. What is still left out is the necessity of reducing the size of the Military Industrial Complex and termination of its imperial agenda. AOC’s proposal also needs to be expanded, including an immediate halt to any new fossil fuel infrastructure, a focus on public ownership and democratic control of the energy systems, and paying for it by enacting a cut of 50% or more in the military budget.

Don’t Do Anything About Climate Disaster

December 9, 2018 Miranda Spencer, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Educate! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Media

“Democrats Will Push on Climate Change,” declared the lead story on the front page of the November 27 USA Today. (The online version bore the more verbose headline, “Once Democrats Take Charge of the House, Addressing Climate Change Will Become Top Priority Again.”) You might think the story was about the Green New Deal, the nascent environmental and social justice agenda that would include a special congressional committee on climate change, championed by incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and endorsed by at least a dozen co-sponsors.

Sorry Democrats, The Green Party Came Up With The Green New Deal!

December 1, 2018 Andrew Stewart, Counterpunch. Educate! Climate Change, Democrats, Green New Deal, Green party

This week progressives nationwide are talking about a Green New Deal and, while mainstream media is saying that insurgent Democrats came up with this, we beg to differ! We applaud the efforts of Democrats for finally adopting what the Global Greens began to work on in in 2006 while noting that the delay of 12 years is very significant when it comes to climate change. The Green Party has been advocating for a massive jobs and public works program to transition our energy infrastructure rapidly over to renewable energy for more than a decade [1].

Ocasio’s Proposed Green New Deal Includes Public Bank Funding

December 1, 2018 Public Banking Institute Strategize! Green New Deal, New Economy, Public Banking

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — one of two insurgent progressive candidates to succeed in their races for Congress — submitted draft text for a select committee on a Green New Deal financed by a system of national and regional public banks and the Federal Reserve. The plan calls for a sweeping mobilization to make the US carbon neutral and draw down greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere and oceans. The inclusion of public banking is an important indicator that awareness of its value has reached the federal level, in good measure due to local advocates who have been pressing the case to Ocasio-Cortez and her team.

The Political Fraud Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’

November 25, 2018 Will Morrow, WSWS Educate! Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, climate crisis, Green New Deal

The Democratic version of the Green New Deal is characterized by a massive political fraud. It includes various left-sounding rhetoric, but is entirely directed to and dependent upon the Democratic Party. Any serious measures to stop global warming, let alone assure a job and livable wage to everyone, would require a massive redistribution of wealth and the reallocation of trillions currently spent on US imperialism’s neo-colonial wars abroad.

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