A Green New Deal

Trump’s message was: “All is hell.” Clinton answered: “All is well.” But it’s not well – far from it. | Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein whom I appreciate very much since I read her book "No Logo" and whose thoughts out of her latest book "This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. The Climate" were accompanying me and Sesto on our pilgrimage to the Word Climate Conference in Paris in 2015, recently wrote an article in The Guardian, where she postulates to go "out of shock as fast as we can and build the kind of radical movement that has a genuine answer to the hate and fear represented by the Trumps of this world. Let’s set aside whatever is keeping us apart and start right now".

Enable peoples readiness to go into action

In fact Naomi Klein and many others have started already. Understanding, that "people have a right to be angry, and a powerful, intersectional left agenda can direct that anger where it belongs, while fighting for holistic solutions that will bring a frayed society together"Naomi Klein showed that such a coalition is possible. "In Canada, we have begun to cobble it together under the banner of a people’s agenda called The Leap Manifesto, endorsed by more than 220 organisations from Greenpeace Canada to Black Lives Matter Toronto, and some of our largest trade unions.
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Sesto and me know an amazing number of people and organisations through our international network since we were hosting the WSF World Spirit Forum in Arosa next to Davos, which was meant to paralell the WEF World Economic Forum. We encountered so many people doing a great job or shining their lights for such holistic solustions that we are far away from fear these days.

​What happened in America is part of a greater clearing that will enable peoples readiness to go into action finally.

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​here you find the whole article in The Guardian | find out more about Naomi Klein