Friend, This past summer, amid relentless heat waves and hurricanes, violence against Haitian climate refugees at the border, and repression of water and land protectors, Congress debated an over $700 billion annual budget for the U.S. military—one of the world’s largest polluters.
Meanwhile, a $350 billion annual recovery package was negotiated down as conservatives on both sides of the aisle put investments for our communities—for care, for environmental justice, for housing—on the chopping block. How long will death-making systems be prioritized over life-giving ones? How long will corporations and policy-makers entertain
false solutions while time runs out? At GGJ, we know that folks on the frontlines of the climate crisis and other structural injustices have the wisdom and experience to make connections between issues, and weave people and planet-centered solutions with urgency. That’s why we’re not only cohering the Left through convergence, political education, and campaigns, we are also bringing together frontline leaders in a campaign to win bold policy solutions.
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