As we wait for national legislation, let’s launch a Green New Deal from below | Jeremy Brecher

The Green New Deal is designed to protect the earth ’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice and eliminating poverty.

But there has emerged a little-noticed wave of initiatives from community groups, unions, city and state governments, Indigenous American tribes and other non-federal actors.

This framework is an approach to organizing that can form a significant means for resisting and overcoming the Trump agenda.

Jeremy Brecher is the author of the new book The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.

He says the impact of the Green New Deals from Below has been to “expand the sense of what is possible” in the Trump era.