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Ocasio-Cortez: Fighting climate change will be the Civil Rights movement of our generation
By Miranda Green - 12/03/18 08:48 PM EST
Speaking at a televised town-hall Monday, Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the governments next steps towards fighting climate change need to be as momentous as the Civil Rights movement or NASA's push to put a man on the moon.
This is going to be the Great Society, the Moon Shot, the Civil Rights Movement of our generation. That is the scale of the ambition that this movement is going to require, the New York Democrat said.
Sitting on a panel during the "Climate Change Town Hall" organized by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ocasio-Cortez challenged the Trump administration's scaled-back approach to fighting global warming and called for more aggression from Congress once she joins the House in January.
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elleng
(130,156 posts)PoorMonger
(844 posts)But Civil Rights still need to be fought for too. Now that these assholes gutted the voting rights act we have to bring it back in legislation all over again. We have to do it all and never let shit slip by.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)fighting billionaires that buy our politicians -- fighting wealth concentration -- will be our Civil Rights movement.
If you beat the billionaires, you get to fix climate change, too.
JI7
(89,180 posts)who help them get favorable policies.
EndGOPPropaganda
(1,117 posts)Rightwing propaganda media outlet and their billionaire owners/funders:
Fox, WSJ, NY Post (Murdoch)
Breitbart (Mercer)
Daily Caller, Reason, National Review (Koches)
Wash Examiner (Anschutz)
Sinclair TV (Sinclair Smith family)
Daily Wire, Prager "U" (Wilks brothers)
Right wing propaganda media is destroying our country - and it's funded by billionaires to get votes from suckers.