Democracy Is Not Just The Right To

Politics Hates A Vacuum. If It Isn't Filled With Hope, Someone Will Fill It With Fear.

Indeed The Three Policy Pillars Of The Neoliberal Age-privatization Of The Public Sphere, Deregulation Of The Corporate Sector, And The Lowering Of Income And Corporate Taxes, Paid For With Cuts To Public Spending-are Each Incompatible With Many Of The Actions We Must Take To Bring Our Emissions To Safe Levels.

Regardless Of The Overall State Of The Economy, There Is Now A Large Enough Elite Made Up Of New Multi-millionaires And Billionaires For Wall Street To See The Group As "superconsumers," Able To Carry Consumer Demand All On Their Own.

Ever Since Steve Bannon Was Demoted, And Drama Started Playing Out Between Bannon And Jared Kushner And The Firing Of Comey And "is He Going To Get Impeached?" We Have Been Trapped In A Classic Survivor Reality Tv Show, Like, "who's Going To Get Voted Off The Island?" And This Has Every Single News Show Enjoying Ratings Never Seen Before. And It Physically Pains Them To Talk About The Stakes Of This Administration, Whether It's Health Care Or Climate Change Or The Deregulation Of The Financial Sector Or Social Security. None Of It Can Compete With This Reality Show.

Thing That We Wanted To Do Was Redefine What A Green Job Was, What A Climate Job Was. We Said: "wait A Minute. There's All These People Out There Who Are Doing Low-carbon Work." It's Not Just Guys In Hard Hats Putting Up Solar Panels. Teaching Is Low Carbon. Caring For The Sick Is Low Carbon. Daycare Is A Green Workplace. Overwhelmingly, This Is Work That Is Done By Women, Overwhelmingly Women Of Color, On The Frontlines Of Austerity Clawbacks.