John, big news: Every month, our friends at CREDO Mobile hold a vote to determine how to distribute $100,000 to three progressive organizations — and right now, Sunrise is one of them!

Can you take a moment to vote for Sunrise? Your vote will help fund our work for a Green New Deal and the future we deserve. (Click the “Climate Justice” box on the page that includes our name, enter your email address, and click "Vote Now.")

Here’s why your vote — and this potential grant — is so important, John:

The world as we know it has changed, and a new one will take its place. What will this new world look like? Who gets to decide?

These are the questions that the young people of the Sunrise Movement are asking themselves right now. Thanks to the movement that we’ve built — which includes thousands of CREDO members — we have completely changed the direction of climate politics in this country.

Five years ago, Donald Trump had just taken office with a climate-denying party in power in Washington. The most ambitious climate legislation at that point was a failed industry bill from a decade earlier.

Now, the Green New Deal — an ambitious suite of policies to decarbonize the economy and invest in racial and economic justice — is a unifying banner for progressives in city, state, and national politics.

Because of the moral power of the Sunrise Movement and our allies, the question isn’t if climate action will happen. The question is: what form will it take, and who will benefit?

As we enter year three of a global pandemic that has demonstrated with cruel clarity the brokenness of our country’s safety net and political institutions, so many of us feel tired and disappointed. We have good reason to be. The Senate, Supreme Court, and Electoral College are all slanted against the rising multiracial generation of young people. White supremacists are consolidating power at every level of government. Meanwhile, fossil fuel companies continue to pollute the environmental justice communities, and the climate keeps warming.

So we ask again — what will this new world look like? Who gets to decide?

Many of the young people of Sunrise know our answer – this new world will be shaped by those who have power, and our strength comes from our people. We find hope in the communities around us, in the places we call home. When the federal government won’t act, we’re fighting to bring the Green New Deal to our neighborhoods to keep our families and friends safe from the fires and floods.

Together, we can force the government to negotiate a new deal — a Green New Deal that will dismantle the fossil fuel economy and create millions of good union jobs transitioning to a new economy that invests in the safety, health, and wealth of all people.

If you’re as excited about the work ahead as I am, vote for Sunrise in CREDO Mobile’s donation election today. Any amount we’re allocated will go a long way toward helping us build the future we truly deserve.

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Thanks for your vote!

Miles, Sunrise