Generation Green New Deal

In this episode, we speak with two Congressional staffers, Saul Levin (Rep. Cori Bush's legislative aide on climate) and Rajiv Sicora (Rep. Jamaal Bowman's legislative aide on climate,) who are helping to write, organize and fight for the various Green New Deal bills working their way thru the halls of Congress.

This special roundtable discussion features Sam Zacher & Johnathan Guy, the authors of the "What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better" article in Jacobin Magazine, as well as Aru Shiney-Ajay & John Paul Mejia of Sunrise's internal 'Frontloading team'--a diverse group of Sunrisers from across the country which has spent the last year strategically addressing critiques of the Movement--both internal and external--while reimagining what the next iteration of Sunrise could look like. This roundtable discussion was conceived of and facilitated by Generation Green New Deal, and hosted by Cicia Lee--former Trainings Director at Momentum, an organization that helps train and support movement leaders, including the founders of Sunrise.

Generation GND speaks with Winona LaDuke, founder of Honor the Earth & Indigenous Water Protector & an important leader of the #StopLine3 movement, about the criminality of the Canadian multinational, Enbridge, that owns the pipeline, the story of the Anishinaabe people who call Northern Minnesota home, and the need to end the fossil fuel economy.

In this conversation our host, Sam Eilertsen, speaks with climate-organizer Kaniela Ing. Kaniela is a Native Hawaiian, a former State Legislator in Hawaii, and the current Climate Justice Campaigns Director at People's Action. Kaniela and Sam discuss Kaniela's conservative upbringing in rural Hawaii, Kaniela's vision of what a Green New Deal for Hawaii could look like, the gridlock around President Biden's American Jobs Plan--and why Progressives need to keep fighting to make sure climate stays in the legislation, plus much more!

In this special conversation with Generation Green New Deal host Sam Eilertsen and writer, activist and newest member of the GenGND creative team Nikayla Jefferson, recorded live at the 2021 D.C. Environmental Film Festival. Sam and Nikayla discuss how climate storytelling has shifted in recent years, and how the Green New Deal and environmental justice have helped create a new paradigm for communicating climate solutions.

In 2019 Charles Booker, a 35-year-old Kentucky state representative decided to challenge Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican Senator, by running for Senate on a Green New Deal. But the Democratic establishment already had a preferred candidate, Amy McGrath. As the campaign got underway Booker looked like the longest of long shots. And while he did not ultimately win the primary, Booker shocked the world by very nearly defeating the best funded Senate candidate in history, winning 43% of the vote in a state many had written off as impossible for a progressive candidate. GenGND tells the story of Charles Booker’s incredible 2020 campaign and the lessons it holds for how the Green New Deal movement can win even in states the Democratic party has abandoned. Featuring Charles Booker himself, Charles’ former Deputy Campaign Manager (and Sunrise Movement Electoral Politics Director) Shante Wolfe, Sunrise Political Director Evan Weber, and Creative Director Alex O’Keefe. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Support Charles Booker’s organization Hood to the Holler: https://hoodtotheholler.org/ Watch Sunrise Movement’s videos for Charles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEb_pVZ05V0 https://www.youtube.com/watdch?v=2MWCHSx6Wwo Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript & more available at: www.generationgreennewdeal.com

When former Rep Joe Kennedy decided to launch a primary challenge against Senator Ed Markey, pundits began writing Markey’s political obituary. He was trailing badly in polls and a lot of his own constituents had never heard of him. But Markey is the co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, and the GND movement mobilized to his defense. Along the way the 74-year-old Senator acquired a large fanbase of Very Online Teenagers, and Markey’s victory helped convince Democrats that climate action is a winning issue. GenGND looks at the story of Ed Markey with Senator Markey himself, Evan Weber and Alex O’Keefe of Sunrise Movement, and Shanaz Uddin of Students 4 Markey. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Watch The #GreenNewDealmaker: https://twitter.com/EdMarkey/status/1293986122318610435 Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript & more available at: www.generationgreennewdeal.com

In this conversation (the first of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimagining, which tries to look beyond the potential dystopias in our future and instead look at the ways in which a better world is possible, and look for communities where it is already starting to emerge. This conversation touches on how the two of them became activists, what activism looks like in the Pacific Islands, and finding hope and joy in difficult times. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to Radical Reimagining: https://radicalreimagining.substack.com/ Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript & more available at: www.generationgreennewdeal.com

We’re now more than a month removed from the 2020 elections, and a little more than a month away from President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris officially taking office...So, what do we know about their plans for tackling the climate crisis? What’s been happening on that front during these last five weeks? And, most importantly, what could happen over the next four years? Well, quite a lot, actually... In this episode, co-hosted by Sam Eilertsen and oral historian Maggie Lemere we hear answers to those questions and more from Senator Ed Markey, Sunrise Movement political director Evan Weber, climate journalist Kate Aronoff (co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal), and Data for Progress Vice President Julian Brave Noisecat. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript & more available at: www.generationgreennewdeal.com Mobilize voters in Georgia with Sunrise Movement: https://www.mobilize.us/sunrise/

Meteorologist-turned-climate-writer Eric Holthaus is an outspoken advocate for climate justice. He’s also the first parent we’ve had on GenGND Conversations, raising his two young children in Minnesota, one of the fastest-warming states in the U.S. In our interview with Eric, we’ll hear about his path from studying climate-change as a meteorologist to writing about it as a journalist, his thoughts on the prospects for climate action during the incoming Biden-Harris Administration, and the climate-fueled extreme weather we’re now constantly seeing around the globe. In his new book, THE FUTURE EARTH, Eric delves into a hopeful 30 year plan for reversing the effects of climate change. And in his newsletter, THE PHOENIX, you can read Eric’s musings on topics such as ‘Focusing on a Just Transition’ and why it’s terrifying that ‘The Arctic’s refusing to refreeze this winter.’ Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Read Eric’s latest, subscribe to The Phoenix: https://thephoenix.substack.com/ Buy Eric’s Book, The Future Earth: https://bookshop.org/books/the-future-earth-a-radical-vision-for-what-s-possible-in-the-age-of-warming/9780062883162 Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Episode transcript available at generationgreennewdeal.com

University of California at Santa Barbara Political Science professor Leah Stokes is a renowned expert on U.S. energy & climate Policy—and she’s also a young person, living through climate change in California. Hear about Leah’s journey to becoming one of America’s most outspoken climate-academics, as well as her thoughts about the historic 2020 election, and the prospects for climate action and the Green New Deal under the incoming Biden-Harris administration. Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: https://generationgnd.substack.com/subscribe Listen to Leah’s Pod, A Matter of Degrees: https://www.degreespod.com/ Buy Leah’s Book, Short Circuiting Policy: https://www.leahstokes.com/book Buy All We Can Save: https://www.allwecansave.earth/ Read Biden has a Climate Mandate in the Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/08/opinion/biden-has-climate-mandate/ Read Climate Change in My Backyard in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/california-floods-mudslides-climate.html

Detroit is a microcosm of many of the issues the Green New Deal is trying to solve: it’s faced flooding and extreme weather and has suffered severe consequences of pollution, environmental racism, deindustrialization, and austerity. In the Green New Deal, many community activists in Detroit saw hope. Featuring Detroit activist Theresa Landrum and former Detroit health commissioner Abdul El-Sayed Support GenGND: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd