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      Avi Lewis Hoping Canadians' Climate Concerns Deliver Electoral 'Upset of Epic Proportions'

      "We need to send Avi to Ottawa to shake up the entire political establishment, including his own party, and tip the scales in favor of people and the planet," said environmentalist David Suzuki.

      Brett Wilkins
      Sep 20, 2021

      As Canadians head to the polls Monday on the final day of federal elections, a journalist, documentary filmmaker, and climate activist in British Columbia is hoping his plan to take aggressive action to combat the climate emergency will resonate with enough voters to score an upset victory.

      "The entire political system is failing to confront the level of emergency that we have."
      --Avi Lewis,
      NDP candidate

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      'We Can Be Whatever We Have the Courage to See': New Video From AOC Envisions a #GreenNewDeal Future

      'We Can Be Whatever We Have the Courage to See': New Video From AOC Envisions a #GreenNewDeal Future

      "This beautiful film helps us imagine a different version of ourselves, and a future in which we decided to come together in the face of crisis, rather than surrender and fall apart."

      Eoin Higgins
      Apr 17, 2019

      "Before we can win a Green New Deal, we need to be able to close our eyes and imagine it. We can be whatever we have the courage to see."

      That was Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) expressing one of the messages behind an urgent video on climate change released Wednesday by The Intercept.

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      The Sanders Institute's Gathering Was About Saving the World, But It Was Not About Bernie Sanders

      The Sanders Institute's Gathering Was About Saving the World, But It Was Not About Bernie Sanders

      It was a small conference with big ideas and a deep sense of urgency. "We need to do it all," said one attendee. "We just simply need to do it all."

      Jon Queally
      Jake Johnson
      Julia Conley
      Dec 09, 2018

      It was a small and relatively intimate event--this small conference described as a "gathering of minds to envision the world we want"--that took place over three days as last month ended and December began in Burlington, Vermont.

      No, it wasn't a "hootenanny." The serious topics discussed in detail and with passion were poverty, inequality, human rights, the climate crisis, racism, war, peace, refugees, workers, healthcare, housing, civil rights, independent media, corporate power, criminal justice reform, international solidarity, civil rights, voting rights, the rights of women, the LGBTQ community, immigration, democracy, economics, politics, organizing, and ultimately about how all of these issues can never be adequately understood or addressed in isolation.

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