Latest Sunrise movement Podcast Episodes
The Life (And Death?) of 'Build Back Better'
Generation Green New Deal - February 10, 2022 15:06 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this episode we examine the life (and death?) of President Biden’s centerpiece legislation: the “Build Back Better” plan. We’ve been getting the inside scoop from Lauren Maunus, Sunrise Movement’s Advocacy Director over the last six months as she’s lobbied congress to help push for what would...
"What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better"
Generation Green New Deal - October 13, 2021 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsRead Jacobin's "What Sunrise Movement Can Do Better" article: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/08/sunrise-movement-green-new-deal-left-politics-local-organizing Support GenGND & Get Extended Bonus Pods on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/generationgnd Subscribe to GenGND's newsletter: http...
Maine's Green New Deal Champion
Generation Green New Deal - September 28, 2021 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsOn this VERY special crossover episode of Generation Green New Deal & INHERITED, we're taking you on a trip up to Maine to meet an inspiring young leader, striving for change, who is leading the fight for a Green New Deal, and equitable climate solutions in her neck of the woods. Maine State Sen...
Stop Line 3! with Winona LaDuke
Generation Green New Deal - August 19, 2021 06:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsGeneration GND speaks with Winona LaDuke, founder of Honor the Earth & Indigenous Water Protector & an important leader of the #StopLine3 movement, about the criminality of the Canadian multinational, Enbridge, that owns the pipeline, the story of the Anishinaabe people who call Northern Minneso...
Stop Line 3! With Jackie Fielder and Alec Connon
Generation Green New Deal - July 19, 2021 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsJackie Fielder and Alec Connon of Stop the Money Pipeline join producer Nate Birnbaum to discuss the fight against construction of the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota, and how pressure on banks and financial institutions from movements can be used to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Join Stop the...
GenGND Conversation with Kaniela Ing
Generation Green New Deal - June 24, 2021 15:44 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this conversation our host, Sam Eilertsen, speaks with climate-organizer Kaniela Ing. Kaniela is a Native Hawaiian, a former State Legislator in Hawaii, and the current Climate Justice Campaigns Director at People's Action. Kaniela and Sam discuss Kaniela's conservative upbringing in rural Ha...
Green New NEWS
Generation Green New Deal - May 13, 2021 15:14 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsThere's been A LOT of Green New Deal news over the last month. From the reintroduction of the Green New Deal Resolution itself, to the introduction of the THRIVE Act, the debates swirling around President Biden's Infrastructure plan, the Green New Deal for Cities, the Green New Deal for Schools...
Storytelling and the Green New Deal at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival
Generation Green New Deal - March 31, 2021 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this special conversation with Generation Green New Deal host Sam Eilertsen and writer, activist and newest member of the GenGND creative team Nikayla Jefferson, recorded live at the 2021 D.C. Environmental Film Festival. Sam and Nikayla discuss how climate storytelling has shifted in recent ...
S1 Ep 10 | The Decade of the Green New Deal Has Begun
Generation Green New Deal - February 16, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this season one finale of Generation Green New Deal, host Sam Eilertsen reflects on how far the climate movement has come over the past few years, and what the coming years might look like with best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein, Sunrise Movement Co-Founder and Executive Director Var...
S1 Ep 10 | The Decade of the Green New Deal Has Begun
Generation Green New Deal - February 16, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this season one finale of Generation Green New Deal, host Sam Eilertsen reflects on how far the climate movement has come over the past few years, and what the coming years might look like with best-selling author and activist Naomi Klein, Sunrise Movement Co-Founder and Executive Director Va...
S1 Ep9 | Charles Booker for Kentucky
Generation Green New Deal - January 26, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn 2019 Charles Booker, a 35-year-old Kentucky state representative decided to challenge Mitch McConnell, the most powerful Republican Senator, by running for Senate on a Green New Deal. But the Democratic establishment already had a preferred candidate, Amy McGrath. As the campaign got underway...
Patreon Preview: Ed Markey Full Interview
Generation Green New Deal - January 19, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsGenGND host Sam Eilertsen's full interview with Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, from December of 2020. This is a preview of the type of bonus content we'll be releasing for our Patreon subscribers, for more exclusive interviews, subscribe now at Patreon.com/GenerationGND. Support GenGND: ht...
S1 Ep8 | Markeyverse, unite!
Generation Green New Deal - January 12, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsWhen 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, a...
S1 | GenGND Conversation, Part 2 w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua
Generation Green New Deal - January 05, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this conversation (the second of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimagini...
S1| GenGND Conversation, Part 2 w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua
Generation Green New Deal - January 05, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this conversation (the second of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimaginin...
S1 | GenGND Conversation (w/ Brianna Fruean & Thelma Young-Lutunatabua)
Generation Green New Deal - December 29, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this conversation (the first of two parts) oral historian, filmmaker, and GenGND story consultant Maggie Lemere speaks with Samoan youth climate activist Brianna Fruean and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua of 350.org. Brianna and Thelma launched a newsletter and online space called Radical Reimaginin...
S1 Ep7.5 | Biden's Climate Team
Generation Green New Deal - December 22, 2020 10:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn this **SPECIAL** holiday-bonus pod, we run through the nominees rolled out last weekend, including the ground-breaking Rep. Deb Haaland for Secretary of Interior, and Gina McCarthy who will hold the new office of National Climate Advisor at the newly formed Office of Domestic Climate Policy, ...
S1 Ep7 | Now What?? Climate in the Biden Administration
Generation Green New Deal - December 15, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsWe’re now more than a month removed from the 2020 elections, and a little more than a month away from President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris officially taking office...So, what do we know about their plans for tackling the climate crisis? What’s been happening on that f...
S1 | Gen GND Conversation with Jamie Margolin
Generation Green New Deal - December 08, 2020 12:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsJamie Margolin is a climate organizer from Seattle and freshman in college. As a 14 year old high school student, she co-founded the youth climate activist group Zero Hour and went on to help organize and lead the massive Youth Climate Strike in the fall of 2019. Jamie was a surrogate for Bernie...
S1 | Gen GND Conversation with Eric Holthaus
Generation Green New Deal - December 01, 2020 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsMeteorologist-turned-climate-writer Eric Holthaus is an outspoken advocate for climate justice. He’s also the first parent we’ve had on GenGND Conversations, raising his two young children in Minnesota, one of the fastest-warming states in the U.S. In our interview with Eric, we’ll hear about h...
Special Episode: Political Climate on Biden's Climate Mandate
Generation Green New Deal - November 17, 2020 15:04 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsYoung Americans voted in record numbers during the 2020 election and played a key role in tipping the scales to Joe Biden. The Sunrise Movement and other environmental groups mounted extensive campaigns to register and mobilize voters to oppose President Trump and vote climate champions into off...
S1 | GenGND Conversation with Leah Stokes
Generation Green New Deal - November 10, 2020 13:55 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsUniversity of California at Santa Barbara Political Science professor Leah Stokes is a renowned expert on U.S. energy & climate Policy—and she’s also a young person, living through climate change in California. Hear about Leah’s journey to becoming one of America’s most outspoken climate-acade...
S1 Ep6 | Joe Biden and The Green New Deal
Generation Green New Deal - October 27, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsThe 2020 Presidential Election Campaign has been unprecedented in a number of ways -- including how much it has been driven by the climate crisis. A look at how the Green New Deal has shaped this election and how the climate movement has pushed Joe Biden, who is running as a pragmatist, to adopt...
S1 Ep6 | Joe Biden and The Green New Deal
Generation Green New Deal - October 27, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsThe 2020 Presidential Election Campaign has been unprecedented in a number of ways -- including how much it has been driven by the climate crisis. A look at how the Green New Deal has shaped this election and how the climate movement has pushed Joe Biden, who is running as a pragmatist, to adopt ...
S1 Ep5 | Detroit, Engine of the Green New Deal
Generation Green New Deal - October 20, 2020 10:52 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsDetroit is a microcosm of many of the issues the Green New Deal is trying to solve: it’s faced flooding and extreme weather and has suffered severe consequences of pollution, environmental racism, deindustrialization, and austerity. In the Green New Deal, many community activists in Detroit saw ...
S1 Ep4 | Where Have the Adults Been?
Generation Green New Deal - October 13, 2020 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsAmy Westervelt of the DrillIed podcast co-hosts this episode as we delve into the question of why it's taken so much time, and a movement led by teenagers and 20-somethings, to push politicians to get serious about climate action. Featuring bestselling authors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben. Su...
S1 | GenGND Conversation with Nikayla Jefferson
Generation Green New Deal - October 06, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsWhat is it like to spend your whole life in California, only to have the state you love more deeply than anything turn into a hellscape of wildfire? Meet 23-year-old Sunrise Movement activist and writer Nikayla Jefferson. In this episode, she describes her life growing up in San Diego, experien...
S1| GenGND Conversation with Nikayla Jefferson
Generation Green New Deal - October 06, 2020 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsWhat is it like to spend your whole life in California, only to have the state you love more deeply than anything turn into a hellscape of wildfire? Meet 23-year-old Sunrise Movement activist and writer Nikayla Jefferson. In this episode, she describes her life growing up in San Diego, experienci...
S1 Ep3 | The AOC Effect
Generation Green New Deal - September 29, 2020 14:16 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsIn 2018, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, and the Green New Deal became her signature policy. But how did a bartender end up defeating a powerful incumbent? Meet the group of former Bernie Sanders campaign volunteers who decided to shake up Congress, a...
S1 Ep2 | Why Join a Movement?
Generation Green New Deal - September 22, 2020 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 416 ratingsWhat motivates young people to dedicate their lives to climate activism? Fear of the future under climate change is one motivation… Another is the opportunity to build a better future under the Green New Deal. Featuring Varshini Prakash and Alex O’Keefe of Sunrise Movement, and three of the yo...
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