Varshini, Sunrise · [email protected]

November 3, 2019 at 2:37 PM

Where will you be one year from now?

Close your eyes for a moment, and picture that day. In my mind, I’m with friends watching the election results on TV. I’m nervous, but I’m filled with hope. Because it looks like we are actually about to elect a Green New Deal champion to the Presidency. John, Today is exactl…

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  Victoria, Sunrise · [email protected]

November 1, 2019 at 5:08 PM

Can you help us with a new project?

John, Last month, we launched a coaching program to build new strike leaders: 396 young people across the country who are new to Sunrise are getting in-depth support from Sunrise coaches to plan strikes in their communities on Dec 6th--the next nationwide climate strike in th…

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  Claire, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 31, 2019 at 6:37 PM

My state is on fire

John, I’m from Redwood Valley, California, and right now, my state is on fire. Over 10 wildfires are burning this week. So far, the fires have consumed 90,000 acres of land and forced more than 200,000 people to evacuate from their homes, without knowing what will be left wh…

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  Luis, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 30, 2019 at 3:56 PM

​John​, join us tonight!

As Democratic primary season starts heating up, this will be our chance to show politicians that our generation--which will make up the largest bloc of eligible 2020 voters in the country!--will only stand behind candidates who are serious about championi John, On December 6th…

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  Abby, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 28, 2019 at 7:53 PM

We need to respond now

John, California is on fire. Again. Hundreds of thousands of people are under evacuation orders. Again. Millions will lose power. Again.   We are taking action on Wednesday, October 30th and we need you with us. Can you join? It's been 11 months since I got arrested outside Re…

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  Naina, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 25, 2019 at 3:10 PM

I want you to experience that feeling

John, My name is Naina and I’m 16 years old from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Six months ago, I had never organized an action. But on Sept 20th, I helped organize a strike here in my hometown with 7,500 people! I was able to do it because of the support I got from friends and mentors…

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  Victoria, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 24, 2019 at 2:33 PM

The GND is about to be on the ballot

On November 5th, media and pundits across the country will be watching Virginia closely. If candidates who run on the Green New Deal win, pundits and politicians everywhere will see that the Green New Deal is an issue that voters rally around. John, The global climate strikes…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 22, 2019 at 4:23 PM

We didn't do this to earn their praise

As Primary season approaches, show politicians that if they want to earn our support, they need to champion a Green New Deal. John, The next strike big strike date is just around the corner. On December 6th, a coalition of young people across America will join in a national #C…

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  Varshini, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 17, 2019 at 1:19 PM

This is our strategy for the next year

There’s a famous story that when FDR met with civil rights activists who sought his support for bold legislation, he told them: “I agree with you, I want to do it. Now go out and make me do it.” John, Last month, Sunrisers joined millions of people around the world for the Sep…

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  Joy, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 14, 2019 at 12:53 PM

Calling all artists! Learn to make your next strike or sit-in go viral in the media

John, Calling all artists, designers, media-makers, crafters, meme-slingers, photographers, poets and painters! This is your chance to take your artistic craft and use it to help win a Green New Deal. From the start, artistic strategy has been an essential to Sunrise’s succe…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 10, 2019 at 3:43 PM

Our new scorecard can tell you which candidates are really ready to bring home a Green New Deal

We’ve spent the last two months working on a scorecard to evaluate the top Democratic Primary candidates, taking into account all the nitty gritty details of their policy, as well as their commitment to and strategy for winning a Green New Deal. John, We’ve been saying it for …

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 8, 2019 at 3:33 PM

When people hear the truth

Last week, fossil fuel billionaire allies launched a new organization they’re calling The Empowerment Alliance. Its explicit goal is to squash momentum for the Green New Deal and keep expanding the oil and gas industries in the US. Their plan is to launch John, Last week, fos…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 3, 2019 at 3:20 PM

We're hiring

This time last year, Sunrise had less than 20 hubs and most people had never heard of us. Now, we’re up to 300 hubs, and leading Presidential candidates are referencing us by name as a major influence in the 2020 elections. John, Our movement is growing at a wild pace. This ti…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

October 2, 2019 at 2:50 PM

This is who could decide the 2020 elections

In the last few weeks, Sunrise has launched a new team of full-time fellows with a plan to build a huge network of young people in key swing states to knock on doors, make calls, and do absolutely everything we can to make sure November 3rd, 2020 is a his John, In the last few…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 26, 2019 at 5:12 PM

This is how we won the Civil Rights Act, the EPA, and it’s how we’ll win a Green New Deal

We’re building a new wave of strikes that will blow last Friday out of the water and put the Green New Deal at the center of the 2020 elections. John, On Tuesday night, we held a mass video call to share our strategy to build off the momentum of the global climate strike. 149…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 24, 2019 at 2:24 PM

Tonight, we need you

Tonight, we’re launching our plan to keep the global climate strike’s momentum going until we win a Green New Deal. John, On Friday, 4 million of us took over the streets on all 7 continents to demand climate action. Tonight, we’re launching our plan to keep the global climat…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 23, 2019 at 6:34 PM

Help unseat "Big Oil's favorite Democrat"

“We aren’t willing to watch our communities suffer because Congressman Cuellar refuses to stand up to his corporate backers.” John, Today, I’m excited to announce our first 2020 endorsement: Jessica Cisneros for Congress! Cisneros is a 26-year-old immigration lawyer from Lare…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 21, 2019 at 5:25 PM

We've taken over, and we're not stopping

As I chanted alongside 250,000 other voices, so loud I could barely hear myself, it suddenly felt real to me just how powerful this movement actually is. John, Yesterday was unbelievable. We actually pulled off the biggest day of climate action in world history! Over 4 millio…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 19, 2019 at 3:06 PM

Tomorrow, we strike

For my whole life -- from the moment I first learned the words “climate change” and felt my childlike sense of security in the world start to break, to now as I sit writing this email -- I have lived with so much fear of this crisis and anger at the fossi John, The moment has …

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  Aru Shiney-Ajay, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 18, 2019 at 7:01 PM

18 states

Young people--Gen Z and Millennials--will together make up the largest block of eligible voters in 2020. That means our generation could have the power to decide the 2020 election -- all we need to do is harness it. John, In two weeks, hundreds of young people from 18 states …

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 17, 2019 at 5:30 PM

Friday

This strike is spreading far beyond the students that started it: In the US, employees at big companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google will be striking from work to push their employers to act on the climate crisis. And around the world, hundreds of m John, We’re just thr…

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  Hadassah, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 11, 2019 at 4:59 PM

Take control of our future

I can’t even vote. Because of that, I really want another way to take control and make sure we can elect candidates who will fight for a Green New Deal. And this weekend, I found that -- at Sunrise’s Northeast Regional Summit. John, My name is Hadassah, I’m 13 years old, and …

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  Varshini Prakash · [email protected]

September 10, 2019 at 5:53 PM

This is Trump’s climate policy

On Sunday evening, a group of evacuees fleeing the devastation in the Bahamas were turned away by US Border Patrol and sent back to the Bahamas. Let me repeat that. This is unacceptable. That’s why we’re taking action. John, On Sunday evening, a group of evacuees fleeing the …

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 9, 2019 at 9:33 PM

Their silence is unacceptable

The link between climate crisis and Dorian’s destruction is obvious. But the media is refusing to talk about it. Out of 167 stories about Dorian aired last weekend on major news outlets, only 7.2% mentioned climate change. John, Last Sunday afternoon, Hurricane Dorian touche…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 5, 2019 at 7:07 PM

7 minutes to 7 hours

On CNN’s Climate Crisis Town Hall, 10 presidential candidates engaged in 7 hours of “the most substantive discussion of climate change ever broadcast on primetime television.”1 This is a massive leap from 2016, when climate got less than 7 minutes of pres John, Last night was…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 4, 2019 at 6:25 PM

Correction: It's time for us to get louder

Right now, we have a choice as a generation: let the “adults” in the room keep selling our future to oil and gas executives, or link arms and force our leaders to take this crisis as seriously as we do. Politicians are only able to stay silent because we John, When this emai…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

September 4, 2019 at 3:32 PM

It's time for us to get louder

Right now, we have a choice as a generation: let the “adults” in the room keep selling our future to oil and gas executives, or link arms and force our leaders to take this crisis as seriously as we do. Politicians are only able to stay silent because we John, For the past ye…

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  Aru Shiney-Ajay, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 29, 2019 at 4:31 PM

Three weeks to prepare

When we strike by the millions in every town and city in the US, we will disrupt the expected day-to-day functioning of society, making our movement and our demands impossible to ignore. John, Right now, we have just three weeks to prepare for the largest youth-led global dem…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 28, 2019 at 4:28 PM

TONIGHT

This is your chance to be a part of something massive, and to broadcast our demand for a Green New Deal at a scale that our political leaders cannot ignore. Join our mass call tonight at 8:30pm EST to learn more and get ready to join or plan a strike near John, We have just 1…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 27, 2019 at 5:07 PM

Following in the footsteps of history

Looking back, history shows us that societal transformation only comes when millions of people take to the streets to demand it. So that’s what we’re going to do. Over the next six months, we’re going to execute a series of coordinated, nationwide strikes John, Right now, we’…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 25, 2019 at 4:38 PM

I'm outraged

Yesterday, the Democratic Party’s leaders failed us. After Resolution Committee members passed a compromise measure Thursday that would have allowed for a climate debate, Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez used strong-armed tactics to kill it. John, Yesterday, th…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 23, 2019 at 1:16 PM

Standing room only

Yesterday, we had a big win: The Democratic National Committee voted to reverse its rule banning candidates from participating in any kind of climate debate. John, Yesterday, we had a big win: The Democratic National Committee voted to reverse its rule banning candidates from …

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 20, 2019 at 1:32 PM

Two days left

The people who will decide whether there's a climate debate don't usually hear from people like you. That means when you call, you'll leave an impression that they'll carry with them to San Francisco when they vote. John, The people who will decide whether there's a climate d…

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  Varshini Prakash, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 14, 2019 at 2:24 PM

Good news and bad news

We have 10 days left to win a #ClimateDebate. I've got some good news and bad news, and a request of you. John, We have 10 days left before the Democratic National Committee (DNC) votes on whether to allow a full Presidential debate dedicated to climate change. I’ve got some …

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  Amy Ramirez, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 8, 2019 at 1:15 PM

Building from the ground up

Two weeks ago, I was at home in Springfield, Missouri, wishing my town had a Sunrise hub but not sure how to get one. After going to the Midwest Regional Summit, I’m ready to build that hub myself from the ground up. John, Two weeks ago, I was at home in Springfield, Missouri,…

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  Victoria Fernandez, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 5, 2019 at 3:32 PM

Most important election of our lives

We need to seize this chance. Our survival depends on it. And that’s gonna start with the work that our new fellows will be doing this fall. John, In the past three weeks, over 130 young people applied to go full-time with us this fall in our next cohort of Sunrise fellows. T…

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  Sean Craft, Sunrise · [email protected]

August 4, 2019 at 1:15 PM

This is your moment

I want my 5 year old son to have a livable future with a safe and secure home. That’s why I’m one of the hundreds of people from 30+ states who have already signed up to attend one of Sunrise’s Regional Summits in the coming months. John, My name is Sean, I’m 33 years old fro…

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  Victoria Fernandez · [email protected]

August 3, 2019 at 3:39 AM

Your role in the movement

We’re thrilled that you’ve chosen to walk this path with us. Hi John! We’re thrilled that you’ve chosen to walk this path with us. At Sunrise, we’re guided by core principles -- and one of my favorite is “we take initiative.” So I wanted to help you get more involved. I invite…

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  Varshini Prakash · [email protected]

July 31, 2019 at 11:38 PM

Welcome to Sunrise!

Let me be the first to thank you for joining Sunrise, the youth-led movement to halt climate change and creating millions of good jobs in the process. Hey John, Let me be the first to thank you for joining Sunrise, the youth-led movement to halt climate change and create milli…

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  Victoria, Sunrise · [email protected]

July 30, 2019 at 7:31 PM

Thanks for signing up!

John, Thanks for joining Sunrise. Now, can you spread the word to keep up our momentum? Click here to share this form on Facebook. Click here to share this form on Twitter. Or you can send your friends this link: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/join-us-112?source=dir…

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