{"id":26060,"date":"2023-04-21T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=26060"},"modified":"2023-04-21T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T18:38:54","slug":"we-need-a-green-new-deal-aoc-markey-re-up-visionary-climate-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/we-need-a-green-new-deal-aoc-markey-re-up-visionary-climate-resolution\/","title":{"rendered":"‘We Need a Green New Deal’: AOC, Markey Re-Up Visionary Climate Resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) reintroduce the Green New Deal Resolution in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on April 20, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 (Photo: Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Across this country, millions of young people still dream of a Green New Deal,” said the Sunrise Movement’s leader. “Together, we will take over, classroom by classroom, school by school, city by city until we win.”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Apr 20, 2023 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Backed by climate, health, and labor groups, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> and Sen. Ed Markey<\/a> on Thursday reintroduced the Green New Deal<\/a> Resolution, which the progressive leaders have been fighting<\/a> for since they first unveiled<\/a> it in February 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In the four years since we first introduced the Green New Deal, the tides of our movement have risen and lifted climate action to the top of the national agenda,” Markey (D-Mass.) said of the resolution<\/a>, which envisions a 10-year mobilization that employs millions in well-paying union jobs to help the country respond to the climate emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thanks to the persistence of the Green New Deal movement, we succeeded in securing historic progress through the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,” he noted, “and now we have an obligation to honor the origins of that success\u2014which sprung from the young people and workers who never once stopped organizing for their future\u2014by putting those dollars to work to create dignified jobs, rectify generations of systemic injustice, and reverse climate damage.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with reintroducing the resolution\u2014a largely symbolic move given the current makeup of Congress\u2014the pair released a guide<\/a> for cities, states, tribes, nonprofits, and individuals about how those two laws “help bring the Green New Deal to life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Finally, it is understood that the climate crisis demands a full transformation of our economy and society that the government must lead.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some progressives criticized<\/a> the Inflation Reduction Act for pouring “gasoline on the flames” of the climate crisis by extending the fossil fuel era, it was still widely heralded<\/a> for investing a historic $369 billion in “energy security and climate change.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that “when we first introduced the Green New Deal, we were told that our vision for the future was too aspirational. Four years later, we see core tenets of the Green New Deal reflected in the Inflation Reduction Act\u2014the largest ever federal investment in fighting climate change, with a focus on creating good, green jobs.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But there is still much, much more to do to make environmental justice the center of U.S. climate policy,” the congresswoman acknowledged. “Today’s reintroduction marks the beginning of that process\u2014of strengthening and broadening our coalition, and of laying the policy groundwork for the next fight.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need a #GreenNewDeal<\/a> \u2013 for the environment, for education, for housing, and for health care. Our planet and our future depend on it.

Proud to stand with @SenMarkey<\/a>, @RepAOC<\/a>, and @RepRoKhanna<\/a> in demanding bold, holistic action that creates jobs and saves lives. pic.twitter.com\/lbHIUFWbBT<\/a><\/p>— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) April 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>