(The Intercept) – Aída Chávez, Ryan Grim:
There is Twitter, and there is the real world. Occasionally, the two meet.
It started with a visit by a group of children and young climate activists to Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Bay Area office. Their exchange – about whether the California senator would vote for or co-sponsor the Green New Deal resolution authored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. – went viral. It led to a turbocharged debate about whether the video had been edited, but it also brought with it a tangible change in the halls of Congress. …
theintercept 2019/03/01 sunrise
Tags: Green New Deal, Sunrise Movement
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