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-===== The Green New Deal: A Dossier ​=====+===== The Green New Deal =====
  
-//Prepared ​and maintained by NYC DSA Ecosocialist Working Group.\\  +//A dossier prepared ​and maintained by the\\ [[mailto:​climate@socialists.nyc|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 1/16/20.
  
-**[[https://​www.facebook.com/​NowThisPolitics/videos/1146252482222489/​|Video ​Introdution]]**  ​| ​ [[gnd-older|Older Items]]+[[https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=d9uTH0iprVQ|Video:​ A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] 
 + 
 + 
 +==== A Planet to Win ==== 
 + 
 +  ​Aronoff, Battistoni, Cohen, & Riofrancos, //​[[https://​www.versobooks.com/​books/​3107-a-planet-to-win|A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal]]// 
 +  * Quinn Slobodian, [[https://​foreignpolicy.com/​2020/​01/​11/​green-new-deal-climate-planet-to-win-book-review/​|When the Green New Deal Goes Global]] - review of //A Planet to Win// 
 +  ​* [[https://​www.facebook.com/​jacobinmag/videos/2523377561215095/|Book Launch ​Video]] ​- //A Planet to Win// (starts at 34:50) 
 +  * [[https://​www.thedigradio.com/​podcast/​planet-to-win-with-thea-riofrancos-and-daniel-aldana-cohen/​|Podcast interview]] with //Planet to Win// authors Cohen and Riofrancos 
 +  [[https://​vimeo.com/​359778899|Video: Designing a Green New Deal]] (U. Penn, 9/13/19)
  
 ==== New and Recent ==== ==== New and Recent ====
  
-  * ARAC, [[gndossier#​the_need_for_a_food_and_agriculture_platform_in_the_gnd|The Need for a Food and Agriculture Platform in the GND]] +  * Naomi Klein//[[https://​www.simonandschuster.com/​books/​On-Fire/​Naomi-Klein/​9781982129910|On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal]]// 
-  * Bozuwa, ​[[gndossier#​the_politics_and_potential_of_the_green_new_deal|Politics and Potential of the GND]] +  * [[http://​feministgreennewdeal.com/​|Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal]] 
-  * Aldana Cohen et al., [[gndossier#​for_a_global_green_new_deal|For a Global ​Green New Deal]]  +  * Gareth Dale, [[https://​theecologist.org/​2019/​oct/​28/​degrowth-and-green-new-deal|Degrowth and the Green New Deal]] 
-  * Marine Biologists, ​[[gndossier#​the_big_blue_gap_in_the_green_new_deal|The Big Blue Gap in the Green New Deal]]+  * [[https://​report.gndforeurope.com/​|Green New Deal for Europe]]
   * Mann, [[https://​kpfa.org/​episode/​against-the-grain-june-12-2019/​|Keynes,​ Crisis and the GND]] (Podcast)   * Mann, [[https://​kpfa.org/​episode/​against-the-grain-june-12-2019/​|Keynes,​ Crisis and the GND]] (Podcast)
-  * Riofrancos, [[gndossier#​plan_mood_battlefieldreflections_on_the_gnd|Plan,​ Mood, Battlefield:​ Reflections on the GND]] 
-  * Patel and Goodman, [[gndossier#​a_green_new_deal_for_agriculture|A Green New Deal for Agriculture]] 
-  * The Red Nation, [[gndossier#​the_red_nationfour_principles_of_the_red_deal|Four Principles of the Red Deal]] 
   * //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]]   * //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]]
 ===== Proposals ===== ===== 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). **[[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
 +
 +See also:
 +
 +  * 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”]]
 +  * Max Ajl,\\ [[gndossier#​report_card_on_bernie_sanders_s_green_new_deal|"​Report Card on Bernie Sanders'​s Green New Deal"​]]
 +
 +==== The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth ====
 +
 +//The Red Nation// 6/19/19\\
 +https://​therednation.org/​2019/​06/​09/​call-to-action-the-red-deal-indigenous-action-to-save-our-earth-june-19-20/​
 +
 +We are drafting a skeleton outline of a comprehensive Red Deal platform that we will discuss and debate in the course of several community-wide meetings. This will not be a regional- or nation-specific document, but a document that will encompass the entirety of Indigenous America, which includes our non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live here. This is a document so that our planet may live....
 +
 +It’s not the “Red New Deal” because it’s the same “Old Deal” — the fulfillment of treaty rights, land restoration,​ sovereignty,​ self-determination,​ decolonization,​ and liberation. Ours is the oldest class struggle in the Americas; centuries-long resistance for a world in which many worlds fit. Indigenous peoples are best suited to lead this important movement. But it must come from the ground-up.
 +
 +The Red Deal is not a counter program of the GND. It’s a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. It’s a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land—an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives.
 +
 +The Red Deal is not a “deal” or “bargain” with the elite and powerful. It’s a deal with the humble people of the earth; a pact that we shall strive for peace and justice and that movements for justice must come from below and to the left. We do not speak truth to the powerful. Our shared truth makes us powerful. And this people’s truth includes those excluded from the realms of power and policy-making....
 +
 +See also Nick Estes, [[https://​jacobinmag.com/​2019/​08/​red-deal-green-new-deal-ecosocialism-decolonization-indigenous-resistance-environment|"​A Red Deal"​]]
 +
 +==== Green New Deal for Europe ====
 +
 +https://​report.gndforeurope.com/​
  
 ==== Sunrise Movement: What is the Green New Deal? ==== ==== Sunrise Movement: What is the Green New Deal? ====
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 Typical green development funding models rely on a mix of public and private investment, with a heavy emphasis on the latter. Our proposal, in contrast, does not think it safe to rely on private businesses and benevolent philanthropists to get us through this emergency, which is why we have proceeded on the assumption that the public sector should cover the entire cost. Typical green development funding models rely on a mix of public and private investment, with a heavy emphasis on the latter. Our proposal, in contrast, does not think it safe to rely on private businesses and benevolent philanthropists to get us through this emergency, which is why we have proceeded on the assumption that the public sector should cover the entire cost.
  
-==== The Red Nation: Four Principles of the Red Deal ==== 
  
-https://​therednation.org/​2019/​06/​25/​four-principles-of-the-red-deal/​\\ 
-What Creates Crisis Cannot Solve It\\ 
-Change From Below And to The Left\\ 
-Politicians Can’t Do What Only Mass Movements Do\\ 
-From Theory to Action 
 ==== New Consensus: The Green New Deal ==== ==== New Consensus: The Green New Deal ====
  
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 These are real obstacles, real constraints,​ and real concerns. I argue, however, that a politics of pure negation—a politics that, in light of both the power of our enemies, and the limitations of the Green New Deal as currently conceived, positions itself primarily in opposition to the Green New Deal—is neither empirically sound nor politically strategic…. These are real obstacles, real constraints,​ and real concerns. I argue, however, that a politics of pure negation—a politics that, in light of both the power of our enemies, and the limitations of the Green New Deal as currently conceived, positions itself primarily in opposition to the Green New Deal—is neither empirically sound nor politically strategic….
  
 +==== Time Has Come to Nationalize the US Fossil Fuel Industry ====
  
 +By Carla Santos Skandier //ROAR Magazine// 8/15/19\\
 +https://​roarmag.org/​essays/​time-has-come-to-nationalize-the-us-fossil-fuel-industry/​
 +
 +It is well documented that in both World Wars the US government did not shy away from seizing the control of industries deemed crucial to the war efforts. This included the nationalization of the railroad system, telegraph, telephone and radio networks and manufacturers in World War I, in addition to coal mines, oil companies and refineries, and even a department store in World War II.
 +
 +But nationalization initiatives did not stop there. In fact, the US nationalized what it considered “enemy” companies — US subsidiaries of German and Japanese companies, such as Merck & Co. If we were to translate those actions to today’s fight to keep any global temperature increase within the 1.5 Celsius limit, that means gaining control over companies that continuously work against climate safety in the country. In other words, fossil fuel companies are the enemy, and we need to treat them as such....
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 +Time has come for people and the planet to stop paying the costs of the failed fossil fuel and financial systems. By nationalizing the fossil fuel industry — the core industry that keep fueling the extractive mentality and further promoting social and environmental inequalities — through the sovereign monetary power of the Fed, we will be able to unleash the potential for an economy where sustainability,​ equity and democracy are at its center.
 ==== The politics and potential of the Green New Deal ==== ==== The politics and potential of the Green New Deal ====
  
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 ===== Critiques ===== ===== Critiques =====
  
 +==== A Green New Deal Between Whom and For What? ====
 +
 +By Nicholas Beuret //Viewpoint Magazine// 10/24/19\\
 +https://​www.viewpointmag.com/​2019/​10/​24/​green-new-deal-for-what/​
 +
 +An important critique, although UK-centered. It brings out the pitfalls of organizing around specific versions of a GND that fail to come to grips with the range of problems and conundrums it details. Key paragraphs -
 +
 +“The hedging around the question of consumption,​ and the emphasis on the job creation aspect of the ‘jobs and climate measures’ part of the motion, tells us all we need to know about what the [Labour Party’s] Deal is. The Deal is to maintain – as much as possible – the current economic system we have, and the current lifestyles, while taking some action on climate change to minimize it as much as possible without compromising living standards. The Deal is that people outside of the Global North, who live in countries who do not have the geopolitical or economic power to compete for what are scarce resources, will be left out of the transition to a low-carbon economy and will, in effect, be sacrificed for the new mines, biofuel plantations,​ etc. that will enable the transition to renewable power for the new green economic system.”
 +
 +“insofar as the Green New Deal isn’t ‘the’ solution, it’s also not a stepping stone to one. Expanding and intensifying extractivism,​ deepening the exploitation of the Global South and implementing new forms of ‘green’ imperialism,​ further trashing the biosphere and continuing to emit carbon pollution – none of these can be understood as steps to a better future. Beyond the brutal political realism that would justify the further sacrifice of life and lives for a greened form of sustainable consumerism,​ the future promised by the Green New Deal isn’t one where climate change is arrested before becoming calamitous.
 +
 +“Even though the Green New Deal isn’t the solution, this doesn’t justify ignoring or opposing it. The Green New Deal is both a policy and a tendency. As a policy, it is a raft of measures that can be engaged with or fought against, in the interest of moving it in a more positive direction. As a tendency, it needs to be engaged with in order to shape what form it takes but also in order to create something else, something that takes us beyond the limitations of efforts to reform the system we have and build something that ensures a rich and abundant life for all of us and all life in general....
 +
 +“We need a radically egalitarian,​ communist degrowth. Recent years have thrown up numerous scientific papers all essentially calling for the end of capitalism. To some extent, science calls for nothing less than full communism. But not the communism of that part of the left that is only interested in communising consumerism instead of ending it, of redistributing the profits and spoils of extractivism without changing the economic system it supports. And while desire and the values attached to consumerism as a form of life must be interrogated and politically transformed,​ ultimately the foundations of consumerism are structural, and there is no shift to a sustainable form of life without looking to build out new infrastructures and environments that enable our autonomy from the capitalist market.
 +
 +“Degrowth as a way of producing a radical abundance must become a core part of left politics. We can start by returning to the critique of consumer capitalism that flourished during the 1960s and 70s, and by acknowledging that consumerism mostly benefits the wealthy few. For the vast majority of the world’s population degrowth can and will only mean a better life. It is not enough to try to cut emissions while keeping everything else the same – the only possible way forward is to radically change everything. It’s the only realistic proposal at this point.”
 +==== 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 ==== ==== The Need for a Food and Agriculture Platform in the GND ====
  
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