Imagine if we could create a program to employ a quarter million people with dignified jobs to combat the climate crisis.
What if I told you that we could create that program and make it a reality this year?
As co-chair of the Unity Task Force on Climate Change, Alexandria and allies proposed the creation of a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC). The CCC would put 1.5 million people on a path to good, union jobs – not just in national parks, but in under-resourced low-income communities, tribal and Indigenous communities, and communities of color as well.
In April of this year, Alexandria joined with Senator Markey to officially introduce CCC legislation, and earlier this month, the creation of the CCC was officially included in the budget reconciliation bill now moving through Congress.
While this is good news, it is our job to make sure the Civilian Climate Corps is included in the final package and receives bold, robust federal funding.
We are almost at the finish line. The CCC is very close to becoming a reality. With your help, we can get the first Green New Deal law signed at the federal level.
This is not a pipe dream. We’ve already done this before. The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the major New Deal programs created by Franklin Roosevelt. It employed over three million workers over the course of a decade — building, repairing, and conserving our forests, parks, and natural resources.
Our climate crisis today requires another peaceful, but wartime-scale, mobilization in order to combat the climate crisis.
Corps members will help conserve our public lands and deliver new clean energy to low-income communities, rural communities, and communities experiencing significant environmental harm.
They will help us address the changing climate through various apprenticeship training opportunities and direct-hire programs that put good-paying and union jobs within reach for more Americans. As a result, they will help to protect and expand union organizing for generations to come.
The Climate Corps we are fighting for will guarantee the sovereignty of Indigenous people over their lands and not only serve underserved communities, but recruit people from those communities as well.
In solidarity,
Randy Abreu
Policy Director
Team AOC
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