"We have the opportunity to create good jobs in wind, solar, and the renewable energy sector that move us to a healthier future and a more just society."
—Lenore Friedlaender, SEIU Local 32BJ
Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes—"Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice": Mass Action Planned to Promote Clean Energy Economy:
The Peoples Climate Movement (PCM) has announced its next mass mobilization: Advocates across the globe plan to take to the streets on September 8 to challenge the Trump administration's deregulatory agenda and encourage citizens and politicians alike to "rise for climate, jobs, and justice."
The announcement comes as President Donald Trump and his appointees continue to wage war on national environmental regulations through rollback efforts that have been sharply condemned by environmental advocates, courts, and much of the public.
With the upcoming mobilization, PCM said it "aims to transform the energy of resistance into action by calling on leaders and elected officials to invest in real solutions to the climate crisis that prioritize the most impacted and vulnerable of our communities, like a massive, just transition to a 100 percent renewable economy that ensures safe and healthy communities, the right to organize for all workers, and millions of family-sustaining jobs."
The rallies and marches, said PCM national director Paul Getsos, are part of "building power to bring about a new, clean energy economy," as well as "a climate movement that is long lasting and sustainable." Ahead of these events, various advocacy groups are highlighting how the climate crisis most severely impacts struggling communities.
The mobilization will occur less than two months ahead of this year's midterm elections and just days before the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco, California, which will bring together "anyone who recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to humanity" to discuss achievements, ways to improve climate policies, and "a call to action to nations to step up their ambition under the Paris Agreement."
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“Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “Thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?”
~~Pope Francis, “Joy of the Gospels” ()
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
On this date at Daily Kos in 2004—Goopers can’t handle the burden:
We already knew this, but it's nice to get confirmation anyway.
"It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government," says Hastert spokesman John Feehery...
Given that 60+ percent think the country is going in the wrong direction, and that every decision made the last four years has been made by Republicans, we know that they can't handle the task.
So it's time to give Democrats a shot.
Incidentally, what Feedery is really trying to say is that it's tough to place blame on Democrats for the Republicans' shortcomings when they control all three branches of government.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin does yeoman's work rounding up the trash currently aflame. Russians hackers at it again, and this time they're after you. Why Trump attacks the media and why they seem to love it. Lol yolo nothing matters, so Kushner gets his security clearance.
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