People have stopped us to ask what we’re about, and our answer? We’re a movement of young people fighting for the futures of everyone. We want good jobs, climate action and for @POTUS and the admin to give a fuck
After walking hundreds of miles in devastating heat across the country, they’re BACK to tell @POTUS to give us a #CivilianClimateCorps and a livable future 🗣
.@JamaalBowmanNY here with us to put pressure on @POTUS and his admin to go big for a bold and visionary CCC and infrastructure bill 📣
Toka from @ndncollective talking about the importance of our solidarity and our work to create livable futures 🔥
It’s getting wholesome, @AOC and @CoriBush came through 🥺💓
thinking about the folks who replied to our tweets saying only 15 people would be in DC for this, hope they’re well 😈
WE’RE STILL OUT HERE AND THE COPS ARE STILL MAD. SHOCKING. 🤯
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The American Rescue Plan - passed by Congress and signed by @JoeBiden will bring badly needed relief to millions of families and begin the long road of recovery from the pandemic.
But both the process and the end product reveal a lot about the state of American governance.
1) The ARP is not enough to meet the scale of the pandemic after nearly a year of government inaction, and was weakened by misguided attempts at bipartisanship.
We need to see continued expansions of our social safety net and further policies that benefit workers.
2) The pandemic has only exacerbated existing cracks in our economy.
Hopefully, many of the anti-poverty programs will be made permanent, creating a more comprehensive social safety net that catches people and prevents them from falling into poverty or homelessness.
In 2009, @BarackObama took office under rather similar conditions to @JoeBiden. The prior administration had completely failed to respond to a crisis. The economy was diving into the worst recession since the Great Depression.
How did Mitch and the GOP embrace "bipartisanship"?
“The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president”
- Mitch
“We're going to do everything — and I mean everything we can do — to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.”
Good! Until the Republican Party deal with those in their own ranks who incited an attempted coup, who spread anti-semitic conspiracy theories, and who say Democratic politicians should be EXECUTED, The Democrats shouldn't even be reaching out to them.
One Republican member of Congress in particular peddles theories about the California wildfires being started by Jewish space lasers, says Democratic politicians should be executed, and thinks mass shootings like Parkland and Sandy Hook were staged.
Today @JoeBiden announced that he is committing to a historic society-wide mobilization to stop the climate crisis, create millions of good jobs, and roll back centuries of systemic environmental racism.
Many of the things we have been fighting for became a reality including:
☀️Establishment of White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy and National Climate Task Force
☀️Creation of a Civilian Climate Corps modeled after the New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps to put people to work in government jobs tackling the climate crisis
☀️Commitment to a whole-of-government approach to Environmental Justice, including delivering 40% of climate investments to frontline communities
☀️Creation of Interagency working group to ensure economic development and a just transition for fossil fuel communities
Movements elected @JoeBiden. Now, it's time to make sure our demands happen. This first week of executive orders are a heartening start.
But we're not stopping there.
Join our mass call to find out how you can fight for the Decade of the Green New Deal: smvmt.link/kickoff-gnd
Representation alone is not enough. We also need the political will to fight for a better future.
Warnock's victory - while historic for being the first Black Senator from Georgia - is critical because Senate control puts survival checks on the table.
Deb Haaland's appointment as Interior Secretary is important not just for who she is, but for what she could do, and the executive orders coming out of the Biden administration are hopefully just a taste.
Heather Boushey - with her focus on people's financial well-being (and not the stock market) - is the type of voice we need in the halls of government.
We are also confident that Heather Boushey will internalize the necessity for our government to structure its work around the national project of averting the climate crisis.