Aaron Regunberg is a former state legislator and a long-time progressive organizer. His writing can be found at The New Republic, Newsweek, The Boston Globe, Balls and Strikes, Dissent Magazine, Ecology Law Quarterly, and Harvard Environmental Law Review.
Last week, something exciting happened: The Biden Administration announced the official launch of the American Climate Corps .When a Climate Corps program was initially proposed by organizations like the Sunrise Movement and Congressional leaders like Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , I remember thinking to myself, “Well that’s a lovely idea . . . but yeah right.
Social movements can—and, indeed, must—shift the horizon of what’s possible. But you can’t accomplish that by retreating to your in-group lefty clubhouse, talking only to your small circle of current believers, and waiting for the world to magically change. It requires a disciplined focus on winning over persuadable people, growing our movement, engaging in coalition politics, and making once-radical propositions seem reasonable, even mundane. These are all things that AOC does incredibly well.
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