We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.
As I get ready to head to Copenhagen this Saturday for the international climate negotiations, I'm thrilled to see the success of The Leadership Campaign and their efforts to have Massachusetts use 100% clean electricity by 2020.
On Monday, Representative William Brownsberger will file their bill, An Act to Re-power Massachusetts, in the Massachusetts House, calling on Gov. Deval Patrick to create a task force to formulate a plan to get Massachusetts to100% clean electricity by 2020.
I'm currently in Amherst (which I was told immediately when I landed that it's pronounced with no "h"), which along with Northampton is a great lefty town- campuses, excellent, highly interesting food, great progressive folks who are all very nice. And apparently it's only an hour and 15 or less from all the places up here where I have friends but don't get to as much- Brattleboro, VT, Albany, NY, Hartford, CT. Tonight I'll be hanging out at the local Drinking Liberally along with the great Bill Scher, who had me on LiberalOasis Radio a while back, and am looking forward to an excellent dinner at the place Hillary took Chelsea when they were looking at colleges, interestingly enough.
I want to let all the Boston-area folks know that tomorrow, Wednesday at 7 PM, Shai Sachs over at MyDD and Reading Liberally-Cambridge, along with ActBlue, will be hosting me for a discussion about my new book and opportunities for progressive change with the Obama Administration. It's at The Democracy Center at 45 Mt. Auburn Street near Harvard Square. Stop on by.
I'm headed up to the great commonwealth of Mass next week on the book tour. If you're around, please come on by, I'd love to meet some OpenLefters from up there. And if y'all would promote the events to your networks, it would really be great.
The reason I'm doing all this traveling is to build the progressive movement- not just in terms of the message of the book, but in terms of the fact that I'm giving all the proceeds from the sale of the Progressive Revolution into projects to build progressive infrastructure. If we work together to push hard enough, we'll be able to build the infrastructure tools we need to create the serious, lasting change we need right now.
Schedule below, hope to see y'all there. All are free and open, and some involve excellent food and drink.
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