New Environmental Group Is Taking Bernie Sanders Revolution To Your City Council
[font color="firebrick"font size="3"]Lead Locally is recruiting candidates for local government who will take a hard line against fossil fuel[/font]
04/04/2017
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A new environmental group was launched Tuesday with the goal of recruiting and electing staunch progressives to run for local government.
Lead Locally, founded by veteran climate organizer Whit Jones, aims to counter President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel-friendly agenda by helping hard-core clean-energy advocates win in city halls and county commissions across the country. The organization will hold a training session for potential candidates on April 30 in Washington, the day after the capital hosts a massive climate march.
“Traditionally, the environmental movement has not engaged deeply in local elections,” said Jones, a former campaign director at the advocacy group Energy Action Coalition. “We need to channel the energy that the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign has created and inject it into local elections.”
Lead Locally is not just any liberal-leaning nonprofit. It is firmly in the ideological mold of Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.) and the staunchly progressive brand of grassroots activism energized by his presidential run last year.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lead-locally-bernie-sanders_us_58e41260e4b03a26a36738c7
