This show will air at noon Friday September 13, 2019 on PhillyCAM’s radio station WPPM 106.5 LP FM in Philadelphia. Salim, 15, spends about five hours a day on electoral work including phone banking in Spanish for Mike Siegel, a Democrat running for Texas’ 10th Congressional District, mailing postcards encouraging youngsters to vote in swing states, and organizing a forthcoming Wide Awake action. “Climate change is already happening, it’s not a theory. Please enable and refresh the page. A lot of young people don’t love Biden, but it’s not just about the presidency,” she said. We're recruiting a volunteer army of thousands to shake up the 2020 elections. Philly’s Ready for 100 & a Green New Deal! “We need to to be ready if Trump tries to pull off a coup by mobilizing his supporters, especially white supremacist groups, to come to places like Philadelphia and do God-knows-what. Hear the audio afterwards as a podcast. Sunrise Movement activists rallied outside Senator Mitch McConnell’s office, advocating for the Green New Deal in February 2019. But they are mostly supporting local candidates like the anti-fracking advocate Danielle Friel Otten in Chester County, who is up for reelection to the state house. The teenagers were online with the Sunrise Movement, a nationwide youth-led climate justice collective, to learn about organizing Wide Awake actions — noisy night-time protests — to force lawmakers accused of ignoring the climate emergency and racial injustice to listen to their demands. 1.7K likes. The high school senior recently coordinated a Wide Awake action outside the home of the Republican senator Pat Toomey, a former Wall Street banker who has repeatedly voted against climate action measures. Grist's comments only work with JavaScript. The script is…, This show aired on Friday May 3, 2019 on PhillyCAM’s radio station WPPM 106.5 FM in Philadelphia. Lancaster is a diverse progressive city surrounded by rural conservative neighborhoods including large Mennonite and Amish communities. This show will air at noon Friday September 13, 2019 on PhillyCAM’s radio station WPPM 106.5 LP FM in Philadelphia. Hear the audio afterwards as a podcast. Troy Turner, 29, Sunrise’s electoral coordinator for Pennsylvania, said: “Biden is super unappealing to young people, he represents the old guard of politics favoring style over substance. If I do my part, I hope others will be empowered to fight for future generations too.”. 25. Tag: Sunrise Movement Philadelphia. Produced…, 21. This keeps me awake at night, but we really don’t have any choice.”. Philly Hears a Who…But What Can They Do? “Zero emissions by 2050 isn’t fast enough,” said Maddy King, 13. One of 200 town halls across the country is kicking off in Philadelphia- don’t miss our line-up of movement and Sunrise leaders talking about the Green New Deal and what it could mean for our … Abby Leedy, 19, a full-time organizer from Philadelphia, is training young hub leaders on how to mobilize large numbers of protesters in case Trump tries to steal the election. 32. Sunrise Movement is an American youth-led political movement coordinated by Sunrise, a 501(c)(4) political action organization that advocates political action on climate change.When first incorporated in 2017, the group's goal was to elect proponents of renewable energy in the 2018 midterm elections, first in the Democratic primaries and then in the general election. The script is below. Aurora Samperio / NurPhoto via Getty Images. Trump represents the apocalypse.”. Young people are policy voters, but we have to vote for Biden as he represents potential for a livable future. It’s our future on the line, not theirs,” said 17-year-old Abby DiNardo, a senior from Delaware County. We’re preparing people, but if his supporters start shooting or drive into the crowd there could be a massacre. Not up for debate: It’s time to ask Trump and Biden some serious questions on climate. Four years of climate change in eight minutes, With the world on fire, climate fiction no longer looks like fantasy. In the days following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sunrise activists woke up key Republican senators, including McConnell and Lindsey Graham, demanding that they delay the vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee until a new president is sworn in. While less than a third of young Biden voters said they were very enthusiastic about casting a ballot for the 77-year-old former vice president, voter turnout among the under-30s could be key: Sixty-three percent of respondents said they will “definitely be voting,” compared to just 47 percent in the same poll four years ago. On Thursday, middle school students gathered outside the Philadelphia constitution center during Joe Biden’s ABC town hall to demanded a better, bolder climate action plan from the Democratic presidential candidate. Sunrise members made about 200,000 calls to help Senator Ed Markey, a leading Green New Deal sponsor, win the Massachusetts Democratic primary election against Joe Kennedy, who was backed by the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi. [1] Now, in the run-up to one of the most momentous elections in modern history, a new generation of young Americans who say they are tired of asking nicely and being ignored, are naming and shaming U.S. politicians in an effort to get their concerns about the planet, police brutality, inequalities, and immigration heard. climate emergency… 21. © 1999-2020 Grist Magazine, Inc. All rights reserved. It has since evolved into an influential youth-led political movement, with more than 400 hubs nationwide that use rallies, sit-ins and old-fashioned voter outreach to help elect local, state and national candidates who back key progressive issues such as the Green New Deal and police and immigration reform.

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