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December 12, 2018

California: Activists Protest for Green New Deal at Pelosi's Office
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In San Francisco, 300 climate activists from the Sunrise Movement
demonstrated at the California office of congressmember and likely
incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, one day after over 1,000 activists
flooded Capitol Hill, calling for Congress to form a Green New Deal
Select Committee.

Zoë Cina-Sklar: "We're seeing the impacts of climate change. Just a few
weeks ago, the Camp Fires were making it hard to breathe in here and
took over 85 lives. And we need to be treating climate change like a
crisis, because it is a crisis. And as young people, we have a lot at
stake in this."

The number of congressmembers supporting the Green New Deal proposed by
incoming New York Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has jumped to
35-up from 22-since the start of organizing actions this week.


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