As we wait for national legislation, let's launch a Green New Deal from below | Jeremy Brecher

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : A core goal of Trump and Trumpism is to obliterate that sense of possibility - the knowledge that through collective action people can improve their lives and their world.
60% : The Green New Deal is a visionary program designed to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice and eliminating poverty.
56% : My new book, The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy, details more than a 100 such initiatives in over 40 states.
53% : The Green New Deal from Below resists that obliteration, with people organizing to build the blocks of possibility right in their own backyards.
51% : The Green New Deal erupted into public attention as a proposal for national legislation, and the struggle to embody it in national legislation is ongoing.
49% : The bill will slash emissions, create thousands of new clean energy union jobs, expand union apprenticeships for Black and Latino communities and increase energy efficiency for public schools.
44% : With Trump in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress we can still create local programs like the DeKalb Green New Deal with its comprehensive municipal plan for clean energy and its score of concrete climate initiatives.
35% : Local and state initiatives can act as 'proof of concept' for transformative climate and jobs legislationAs Trump and Trumpism devastate the American political landscape, how can people counter this destructive juggernaut?

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