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 ===== The Green New Deal: A Dossier =====
-//Prepared and maintained by NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group.\\
+//Prepared and maintained by NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group//
-Excerpts only: follow links for complete items. Updated 8/9/19//
-**[[https://theintercept.com/2019/04/17/green-new-deal-short-film-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|AOC's Message From the Future]]**
+In most cases, items below include excerpts only - follow links for full text. For older items, go to [[gnd-older|Archive]]. Updated 8/23/19.
-**[[https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPolitics/videos/1146252482222489/|Video Introdution]]**  |  [[gnd-older|Older Items]]
 ==== New and Recent ====
+  * Bernie Sanders, [[gndossier#bernie_sandersthe_green_new_deal|The Green New Deal]]
+  * Battistoni and Riofrancos, [[https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/bernie-sanders-climate-green-new-deal|”Bernie’s GND Is For the Many, Not the Few”]]
+  * Kate Aronoff, [[https://theintercept.com/2019/08/22/bernie-sanders-climate-policy/|”Bernie’s GND More Radical, More Likely to Succeed”]]
+  * Johanna Bozuwa, [[http://inthesetimes.com/article/22025/bernie-sanders-calls-to-seize-the-means-of-electricity-production-climate|
+“Bernie Sanders Calls To Seize the Means of Electricity Production”]]
   * Aviva Chomsky, [[http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176594/tomgram%3A_aviva_chomsky%2C_how_the_green_new_deal_is_changing_america/|"How the Green New Deal Is Changing America"]]
   * ARAC, [[gndossier#the_need_for_a_food_and_agriculture_platform_in_the_gnd|The Need for a Food and Agriculture Platform in the GND]]
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   * //Socialist Forum//, [[https://socialistforum.dsausa.org/issues/winter-2019/a-class-struggle-strategy-for-a-green-new-deal/|Class Struggle Strategy for a Green New Deal]]
   * Systemic Disorder, [[https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2019/08/21/green-new-deal-assessment/|"The realism and unrealism of the Green New Deals"]]
 ===== Proposals =====
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 **[[https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/ocasio-cortez.house.gov/files/Resolution%20on%20a%20Green%20New%20Deal.pdf|Full text]]** of the Green New Deal Resolution introduced on February 7 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA).
+==== Bernie Sanders: The Green New Deal ====
+[[https://berniesanders.com/issues/the-green-new-deal/|Full Text]] of Bernie's GND Program, issued August 22, 2019
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 ===== Critiques =====
+==== Report Card on Bernie Sanders's Green New Deal ====
+"A Hot Take from an Ecosocialist" by Max Ajl //Uneven Earth// 8/27/19\\
+http://unevenearth.org/2019/08/report-card-on-bernie-sanders-green-new-deal/
+I would like to clarify, before tendering my take on Bernie Sanders’s Green New Deal, that I am not and have never been a Bernie Bro. But history surprises us. We do not get to decide who moves us, nor where, nor when, nor how. Much like the UK’s Jeremy Corbyn, Bernie is the unexpected child of the 2008 financial crisis. They are amongst many Euro-American candidates who express, channel, personify, and maybe limit popular unease with contemporary capitalism....
+But it takes a lot of work to distil a political force from an atmosphere thick with anti-systemic feeling. And at the moment, the Bernie GND reflects the strengths and limits of the moment and the movement: what Bernie and Bernie’s advisers think can help craft a winning message for the primary and then general-body electorate, what they think will raise Bernie’s profile amongst the Black and working-class Latino communities which he needs to turn out to win, and what postures they hope won’t set off the alarm bells of the political-evaporation machines of the entire US capitalist class. They also are considering how some messaging might be hammer and chisel on seams within US capital, cleaving manufacturing sectors from the petroleum conglomerates—messaging which may also accommodate the capitalist-forged “way of life” which is actually a way of death for much of the planet....
+ I do not necessarily expect Bernie to adopt these reformulated planks. I do expect an autonomous and self-aware people’s movement to take them up on a mass scale and push them upon Bernie or whomever sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That would also require a political strategy to build autonomous power and not reduce critical intellectual work to cheerleading for the Bernie campaign, as heartening as his policies may be. Bernie manifestly has a role, given massive popular investment in electoral politics. He can go places many of us cannot. But that does not mean surrendering autonomy of vision or the hard work of politics and strategy which goes along with it. Because when the gale force of capitalist reaction comes, it will be such a movement which can resist the storm winds, and not Bernie himself.
 ==== The Need for a Food and Agriculture Platform in the GND ====

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