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S1 Ep8 | Markeyverse, unite!
Generation Green New Deal
English - January 12, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MB - ★★★★ - 416 ratingsGovernment News Politics climate sunrise movement activism green environment youth green new deal Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
When former Rep Joe Kennedy decided to launch a primary challenge against Senator Ed Markey, pundits began writing Markey’s political obituary. He was trailing badly in polls and a lot of his own constituents had never heard of him. But Markey is the co-author of the Green New Deal resolution, and the GND movement mobilized to his defense. Along the way the 74-year-old Senator acquired a large fanbase of Very Online Teenagers, and Markey’s victory helped convince Democrats that climate action is a winning issue.
GenGND looks at the story of Ed Markey with Senator Markey himself, Evan Weber and Alex O’Keefe of Sunrise Movement, and Shanaz Uddin of Students 4 Markey.
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