On July 14th, Green Change announced the campaign for a Green New Deal, a 10-point program to create economic prosperity together with ecological sustainability.
Since then over 100 candidates for elected office at all levels have joined the Green New Deal Coalition.
The Green New Deal Coalition will cut military spending, create millions of green jobs, and revive the economy by protecting the planet we depend on.
Green Change is inviting all candidates, individuals and organizations that support a prosperous, sustainable future for America to endorse the Green New Deal.
Read the call for a Green New Deal and sign on today.
To date, 11 candidates for governor, 11 candidates for US Senate, and 33 candidates for US House of Representatives have joined the Green New Deal Coalition.
All agree on the need to cut military spending, fund green public works, ban corporate personhood, pass single-payer health care, restore progressive taxation, ban usury, enact a revenue-neutral carbon tax, legalize marijuana, institute tuition-free public higher education, change trade agreements to improve labor, environmental and safety standards, and pass sweeping electoral, campaign finance and anti-corruption reforms.
These candidates represent a clean break with the failed policies of the past that have led America down the road to economic and ecological disaster.
The Green New Deal promises a brighter tomorrow for America – one that combines the New Deal’s promise of freedom from economic hardship with decisive action to protect our planet.
You can help build the movement for real change by endorsing the Green New Deal today and asking candidates for elected office to join you.
Deficit hawks have been in full flutter mode. Pete Peterson and his friends have gotten together in recent days for one of their periodic teeth-gnashing, rending-of-clothes bacchanalias, and President Obama's deficit commission is having its first meeting today.
While progressives have done some good things in response to all this deficit hawk fervor- like repeatedly pointing out that if we cut deficits too fast, the economy will tank, and reminding people that some of the biggest deficit hawks (such as Greenspan and Rubin) are people who ignored the housing bubble or even benefited from it. I think it is incumbent on us, though, to have a sharper, less defensive message overall on the deficit. It is not politically tenable for us to ignore or downplay the big deficit numbers that are projected. We need a proactive deficit strategy of our own to push back on the conservative deficit hawks. Such a strategy should be built on two major messages, both of which are good economic policy as well as good politics.
