Q&A Sunrise Movement: Activists apply climate pressure on US Congress
Young activists are moulding the US Democrats and Joe Biden to ensure the Green New Deal agenda sees the light of day
15 September 2020 - 18:55
London — The young climate activists working under the banner of the Sunrise Movement are poised to send more legislators to Washington in 2021 than in 2018, with a congressional faction that could rise to as high as 10 after the election.
It may seem modest, but several of these Sunrise candidates overtook establishment Democrats or else beat out party rivals who didn’t support the group’s Green New Deal agenda. That energy even helped US senator Ed Markey, who first introduced the climate resolution, fend off a primary challenge from a Kennedy in Massachusetts...
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