 Dear John, All across America, people are rising up to fight for a country that works for all of us, one where Black Lives Matter, where we finally get our priorities on track and stop pouring billions into a militarized police while people are going without so many basic human dignities: without food, without housing, without healthcare, without counseling, without decent jobs, and so much more. This is a historic moment and we all have a responsibility to show up for Black lives right now.
We’re hosting a mass training tomorrow night at 8pm ET on how the climate movement can show up for Black Lives. We’ll cover:
RSVP.
I want to be very clear -- this isn’t a secondary priority for our movement, it’s core to the work we need to do.
As a Minneapolis police officer was choking George Floyd to death, George Floyd cried out “I can’t breathe.” That’s the same cry thousands of kids -- mostly black and brown -- yell out every day because they’ve developed asthma from breathing polluted air from coal plants and refineries. It’s the same cry that hundreds of thousands of people infected with COVID have gasped out as they are trying to fight for their lives when they don’t have access to the healthcare they need.
We’re not a movement that only cares when someone says “I can’t breathe” thanks to climate change and fossil fuels. We are fighting for a society where everyone, no matter the color of their skin or how much money they have or where they are from has basic rights to clean air and water, good jobs, a safe home and neighborhood, and the healthcare they need.
Our 10th principle says: “We stand with other movements for change,” not just because it’s the right thing to do but it’s the only way we’re going to win the Green New Deal and win that kind of change.
That couldn’t be more true than right now. We are a nation at a crossroads. Down one path lies a world remade in the pursuit of justice, racial justice, economic justice, and climate justice. In the other direction, Trump, white nationalists, and complicit police departments are inciting violence against peaceful protesters, and Trump is flirting with martial law.
We have always known that it’s a choice between climate justice and ecofascism, and that choice is looming closer every day. Everything is up for grabs.
Join us tomorrow. RSVP here and share with your friends and family, whether they’re in Sunrise or not, all are welcome. See you there, Varshini Prakash, Sunrise Executive Director |
