This is a long email about our movement’s fight for decisive climate action, where we’ve been, and where we’re going from here. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to read it, and then if you can, make your next $10 contribution to stand with our movement today.
I wanted to take a moment to look back and reflect on where our climate movement has come from:
In 2009, when I was in the House of Representatives, we passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act — also known as Waxman-Markey — the only comprehensive climate legislation to ever pass a chamber of Congress.
Thanks to the big oil and gas companies and their powerful lobbyists, that bill died in the Senate. It never even got a vote. But rather than agonize, the people organized.
In the years that followed, as the science continued to become even more undeniable, the climate action movement grew, mobilizing and organizing from coast-to-coast and around the world. And in 2019, three years ago this week, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I officially introduced the Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal centers justice in all its forms — environmental, racial, social, economic — and has shown people what is possible when we engage on a transformative agenda to save our planet.
In 2020, we proved that the Green New Deal and climate justice were winning issues at the voting booth, electing a new generation of strong progressive allies, up and down the ballot and all across the country.
In 2021, these progressive victories gave us the institutional weight and power to unite, stand up for our values, and say: “No climate, no deal.”
And in 2022, we need to stand together once again, on this issue especially. We cannot allow this moment — with the climate and equity provisions of the Build Back Better agenda hanging in the balance — to be a rerun of 2009.
We need to go into this November’s midterm elections having delivered tangible, meaningful results for the working class of this country, and outline a clear vision for the future. We must remember where we’ve been, and know where we’re going.
Our fight is not about one single election, one campaign cycle, one policy, or one bill. This movement is about building the progressive power that we need if we’re going to take on the entrenched, well-funded special interests who want to see us fail, and address the needs of working people in our country.
Now is not the time for despair or to lose hope. Our democracy and our future simply cannot afford for us to give up. We are on the verge of delivering real results on climate, not just for the people of this country, but for people all over our planet. And we’re going to continue that fight until we win.
But here’s the truth: Nobody — not Ed Markey or anyone else — can do it alone. That’s why I need you to join the thousands of people from our grassroots, people-powered movement and say you’re in, especially today.
Make your next contribution — of $10 or anything you can — to support our movement’s fight for a Green New Deal and our bold progressive agenda for climate justice. This is important.
We have a responsibility to keep organizing and deliver on our promise of a just and livable future for all people. Thank you, as always, for being with me in the fight.
In solidarity,
Ed Markey
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