Vogue correspondent Chloe Malle spent 6 weeks with the young activists behind the SunriseMvmt, here's what she learned. GlobalClimateStrike.
In July, centrist Democrats in the House presented a more moderate plan to curb carbon emissions by 2050 rather than the Green New Deal’s eyebrow-raisingly ambitious goal of 2030. “We are inspired by the energy, activism, and outside mobilizing of the Sunrise Movement and the millions of young people across the country who are using their power to bring about transformational change,” Speaker Pelosi wrote me in an email.
When I ask Prakash about all of this on our drive to D.C., she is emphatic: “I think if you’re not creating some kind of tension and illuminating the difference between where we are right now and where we need to be, you’re not doing a very good job as a social movement.” Wide and urgent, her eyes meet mine in the rearview mirror. “What is defeating Trump?” she asks.
Victoria Fernandez, 26, a cofounder wearing lilac color-blocked Outdoor Voices leggings, a battered copy of 2016’s grassroots manuallolling out of her backpack, leads a training session. “It was only once Cardi B got haters that you knew she was famous,” Fernandez says, noting that Fox News devoted three times as much coverage to the Green New Deal as CNN and MSNBC combined. The room of new fellows snaps enthusiastically in approval, sounding like a drove of cicadas.
A few weeks later it is the eve of the first Democratic debates, and more than two dozen Sunrisers have spent the night on the brick steps of the Democratic National Committee offices in D.C. . Their demand? A Democratic debate devoted to climate. Days later the DNC agrees to put it to a committee vote in late August. This kind of success keeps happening; the targets set are met sooner than anticipated. “I keep thinking to myself, Are we not asking for enough?” wonders Fernandez.
point out that “there’s a difference between policy and politics. I don’t think [the Green New Deal] is ‘politically achievable,’ but I think it might be a very useful political strategy.” McKibben agrees, which is why it is important to do this work in the primaries. “Because now, if Joe Biden gets elected, he has a set of commitments that we can then hold him to.”
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