justice movement with the passion, creativity, and Doing this work at a national scale challenges drive of today’s broader movement to organize our movement and systems to be intentional in and win the conditions needed for a regenera- building a leaderful movement that’s represen- tive economy in the next ten years, so that it is tative of who we are. [...] This fund is a movement the movement to influence foundations, individ- response to the Bezos Earth Fund announcement uals, and corporations to give to the grassroots in 2020 that it was moving $10 billion to address 12 Resisting a Return to Normal by Building a Just Transition Now climate change, subsequently followed by out- sized commitments to we. [...] to appear in print and publicly in front of a wide Through these efforts, mainstream, philanthropic range of audiences to reframe critical political and climate and energy news, along with interna- narratives around what real solutions to the cli- tional outlets featured stories about CJA and our mate crisis look like and the dangers of false ones members. [...] The new law GNDN to center frontline priorities and incor- requires Portland General Electric and Pacific porate the vision of the Peoples Orientation into Power, the state’s two major power companies, to the THRIVE Agenda – a congressional resolution reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% from supported by over 85 members of congress and a baseline amount by 2030, 90% by 2035, and 250 diverse org. [...] The law also includes a ban on the In collaboration with the UFT and GNDN, we expansion or new construction of power plants took coordinated, strategic action to inform pol- that burn fossil fuels in addition to an allocation icy makers and advance frontline policy recom- of $50 million in grants for community-based mendations to the Build Back Better Agenda and energy projects.
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