{"id":397728,"date":"2019-03-01T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-youth-led-climate-movement-use-labors-playbook\/"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:51:08","slug":"will-the-youth-led-climate-movement-use-labors-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/will-the-youth-led-climate-movement-use-labors-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Youth-led Climate Movement Use Labor’s Playbook?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You\u2019ve probably <\/span>seen the video<\/a> <\/span>in which young climate activists confronted Sen. Dianne Feinstein last Friday.<\/p>\n

Middle and high school student activists carrying a large handwritten letter to Feinstein urged her to sign on to the Green New Deal and take the dramatic action necessary to save the planet. Feinstein dismissed the young activists and told them that they could learn a thing or two by listening \u2014 and to run for office when they\u2019re old enough.<\/p>\n

When the students urged Feinstein to adopt the only kinds of radical transformations that will allow them to have a future on this planet, she said condescendingly: \u201cYou come in here, and you say it has to be my way or the highway. I don\u2019t respond to that. I\u2019ve gotten elected, I just ran. I was elected by a million vote plurality. And I know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Feinstein\u2019s attempts to silence and shame these young activists is disgusting, their responses are what is so important: they aren\u2019t quelled, but instead point out all the reasons that they can\u2019t \u201cwait and see.\u201d They challenge Feinstein, stating: \u201cWe have 12 years to turn this around.\u201d<\/p>\n

The socialist left should be paying attention to these answers. These young activists are radicalizing quickly, and they will gain a clearer understanding of the limitations of appealing to the Democrats for change. Where will they turn after that?<\/p>\n

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We often warn against \u201corienting on the Democrats\u201d as a strategy for change precisely because of politicians like Feinstein and House Speaker Nancy \u201cGreen dream or whatever they call it\u201d Pelosi.<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 most important initiatives \u2014 the ones they point to like <\/span>the original New Deal<\/a> <\/span>\u2014 came about not because of visionary party leaders, but instead as a response to levels of social unrest, including mass strike waves, so high that the politicians in Washington believed significant change was necessary.<\/p>\n

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You\u2019ve probably seen the video in which young climate activists confronted Sen. Dianne Feinstein last Friday. Middle and high school student activists carrying a large handwritten letter to Feinstein urged her to sign on to the Green New Deal and take the dramatic action necessary to save the planet. Feinstein dismissed the young activists and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}