2020 Session #5 Imaging a Future Green New Deal

Session Six: Creating a Positive Future - The Green New Deal

Music: Bruce Springsteen, "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live." Link to video
            Chris Hadfield,"Space Oddity," Link to Video

Essential Questions:

• How can a society transform itself to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
• What historical precedents are there for transformative systemic change?
• What will it take to initiate the changes necessary to stabilize the climate?
• How important is the role of people power to create political change?
• What is the Green New Deal? Does it meet the requirements of a positive vision?

Gathering: "Imagine a positive attribute of a  future world that you would like your children to live in..."

Rick's Rap:
• Imaging exercise/Elise Boulding, need for a vision, Naomi klein/rachel carlson
Is it possible?/timeline exercise
Videos:


•"The Green New Deal explained", Vox video, June 12, 2019 link to video
•"Inside the Sunrise Movement: How Climate Activists Put the Green New Deal on the Map, NBC News, March 2019 Link to Video
• "The Story of Change,"Link to Video
•"Meet Naomi Klein ," Now This Future, link to Video
•Alexandra Ocasio-Cortes interview, Chris Hayes Show, MSNBC , 4/1/19 link to video
•"The Next System Project," link to video

Closing:  "Something that I learned today..."

Readings:  
 Bill McKibben, "We Literally Need to Declare War on Climate Change,"  New Republic, August 15, 2016 Link to article
• Rob Nixon, "Naomi Klein's This changes Everything," Sunday Book Review, NY Times, 11/6/14https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/books/review/naomi-klein-this-changes-everything-review.html?_r=0
• Kate Aronoff, "With a Green New Deal, Here's what the world could look like for the next generation," The Intercept, 12/5/18 Link to article
• Thomas Friedman, "The Green New Deal Rises Again," NYTimes, 1/8/19 Link to article
• Sunrise Movement students are arrested, Common Dreams, link to Article

Resources:

•David Brooks, "A Nation of Weavers," NYTimes,  2/18/19 Link to Article
•Sunrise Move Campaign Guide, Link to article
•"The Green New Deal with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez," Chris Hayes Show, MSNBC, 4/1/19   link to Video
• H.Res. 109, "Green New Deal," 116th Congress,  Link to article

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here

assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and of courage. This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms. Give me your help, not to win votes alone, but to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people.”

FDR, 1932

quoted in the Sunrise Movement National Handbook