Tom Weis
Tom Weis is the president of Climate Crisis Solutions in Boulder, Colorado.
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Views Saturday, February 01, 2020 DNC Showing Its True Colors (Again) On Friday, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) showed it has learned nothing from the 2016 election disaster. The same DNC that recently complained it could not change the rules to allow the candidates to debate the gravest challenge facing humanity—the global climate emergency—has now rigged... Read more |
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Views Friday, November 15, 2019 DNC Dithers While the World Burns It wasn’t long ago that seemingly every green group in America was up in arms over the Democratic Party’s self-defeating refusal to sponsor a nationally televised presidential debate on the climate crisis. With moral clarity, climate campaigners loudly demanded that the Democratic National... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 19, 2019 Another Open Letter to DNC Chair Tom Perez: How Are Democrats Going to Contain the Climate Worldfire If They Won’t Even Hold a Climate Debate? Dear Tom, Since the first open letter I wrote to you didn’t seem to get through, I’m trying again. You probably don’t remember me, but I remember you. You made a deep impression. We met (twice) in Washington, DC in the fall of 2013 when you visited a drafty #Fast4Families tent on the National Mall... Read more |
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Views Monday, May 02, 2016 Bernie, the Little Bird, and What May Be Our Last Best Chance to Get It Right Take heart , Sanders supporters. We’re down, but we’re not out . Bernie’s difficult path to the nomination just got a little rockier, but it’s still three months to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. If there’s anything I’ve learned from my years in presidential politics, it is to... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 21, 2016 The Revolution May Not Be Televised, But Bernie Sanders Is Going All The Way First the political powers that be tried to count Bernie Sanders out after Super Tuesday, only to watch him come roaring back with a Michigan miracle that shocked the political world. After being given a 1 in 100 chance by pollsters of winning the Wolverine State, Sanders knocked down the Clinton... Read more |
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Views Monday, March 07, 2016 Why Bernie Sanders Is the Democratic Party’s Best Hope to Win the White House in November What many expected to be a coronation for establishment candidate Hillary Clinton has morphed into a pitched battle for the soul of the Democratic Party. Despite all the corporate media hype to the contrary, the long slog to the Democratic nomination is just getting started . This is a marathon ,... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2016 Why Bernie Sanders Is Winning the Hearts and Minds of America If you’re lucky, once in your lifetime, maybe twice if you’re really lucky, you’ll get an opportunity to support a presidential candidate who speaks to your values on a very deep personal level. For me, that chance came the day Bernie Sanders announced his presidential campaign. My reason for... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 03, 2015 America’s Zero Emissions Imperative Last fall, we wrote an article explaining why zero has become the most important number for humanity. Since that time, zero emissions has been embraced as an idea that’s time has come by nearly 120 countries , leading European companies, high-profile CEOs, two Pontifical Academies, climate... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 06, 2014 A Zero Emissions Manifesto for the Climate Justice Movement “ Zero emissions is an ambitious but achievable goal. ” —UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Zero has become the most important number for humanity. Why? Any chance of stabilizing the climate hinges on transitioning to zero greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as humanly possible. Simply slowing the... Read more |
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Views Friday, August 01, 2014 As Keystone XL Dominoes Fall, Time to Arrest Tar Sands Industry We’ve got this. Thanks to the courageous and indefatigable efforts of pipeline fighters everywhere, the tide has finally turned on Keystone XL . As it becomes increasingly clear that Keystone XL’s northern leg is not going through, it is time to set our sights on ending all tar sands exploitation... Read more |