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Sunrise Movement

Sunrise is a movement of young people uniting to stop the climate crisis. We call ourselves Sunrise because we know this dark hour in America, when fossil fuel executives and climate deniers run our government, cannot last. We have a 4-year plan to build a movement strong enough to make climate action an urgent priority in every corner of the country, expose the fossil fuel executives who have purchased politicians and blocked progress, and elect a people's government to pass an agenda for our health, home, and future.www.sunrisemovement.org

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Oct 9, 2026

Ezra LevinHOST
32:15
It includes name, birth date, full address, IP address and location, cell phone number, email address, uh, just a whole bunch of bad information, uh, your district and your ballot included." A- and so Mark asks, "What is Indivisible doing to sound the alarm and warn people to steer clear?" Y'all might have seen some of the viral moments from the event that I did this past weekend.
Ezra LevinHOST
32:38
Uh, it was in New York with, uh, Mark Ruffalo and with, um, uh, uh, Black Voters Matter and with We Stand United and with Sunrise Movement and with...
Ezra LevinHOST
32:49
Oh, Robert De Niro.
Ezra LevinHOST
32:50
How is he fifth on the list? I don't know.
Jamie KirchickGUEST
60:47
I think there's a lot of, you know, American activists, left-wingers who believe this and believe it should be inserted into every issue.
Jamie KirchickGUEST
60:55
But what you see in a lot of these situations, these stories is, you know, there'll, there'll be, um, an organization that stands for the environment, right? Like the Sunrise Movement, which was like an environmental group.
Jamie KirchickGUEST
61:08
And all it takes really is a small core, and there's a term for this actually, it's called entryism, and it's basically what the DSA is trying to do in the Democratic Party.
Jamie KirchickGUEST
61:19
It's when a small core of, like, committed ideological leftists will enter a left-wing organization, say the Democratic Party or an environmental organization, and then they will use sort of underhanded tactics to take over that organization.
Yotam MaromGUEST
6:14
Um, okay, so yeah, as a facilitator, so, you know, I work as a, basically as a group facilitator for a lot of movement organizations, and it's a combination of supporting them, you know, to work through their strategy and, and to work through their group dynamics, figuring that those two things are often related, and we have to build strong, healthy groups to be able to execute a good strategy.
Yotam MaromGUEST
6:32
Um, and the kinds of groups I work with are, you know, organizations like the Sunrise Movement that brought us the Green New Deal, uh, [laughs] uh, you know, If Not Now and Uncommitted, uh, you know, we would like to work with, um, [laughs] work at Stop the Jail.
Chenjerai KumanyikaHOST
6:47
We're gonna do that for every group, man.
Yotam MaromGUEST
6:48
I'm sorry.

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Yotam MaromGUEST
71:48
Um, and-
Chenjerai KumanyikaHOST
71:49
Can you think of any off the top?
Yotam MaromGUEST
71:50
Yeah, I mean, I think like, uh, some successful organizations like, uh, the Sunrise Movement, for example.
Yotam MaromGUEST
71:57
Like this is an organization that like understood the role of the staff as being able to build something that was distributed so that lots and lots of everyday people could be part of the movement, and then as a result, they were able to scale and like win some things, you know? Uh, you know, the, lots of examples like that, I think.
Comfortably SmugHOST
10:47
Come on.
Josh HolmesHOST
10:48
"That's why we're teaming up with the Sunrise Movement for a rally on climate injustice and the fight for the Green New Deal.
Josh HolmesHOST
10:55
Speakers include Rashida Tlaib and Abdul El-Sayed, and our very own," uh, whoever the F that is.
Josh HolmesHOST
11:02
Uh, i- i- if you could s-
Comfortably SmugHOST
11:03
From March 2019, and that's the thing.
Comfortably SmugHOST
11:05
So first off, if you don't know, folks, Sunrise Movement is one of the most insidious left-wing dark money groups out there.
Comfortably SmugHOST
11:11
If there's any Looney Tunes batshit policy that can harm America and, like, hobble American energy, hobble American businesses, Sunrise Movement is always there at the front of it.
Comfortably SmugHOST
11:22
And for Detroit DSA to be like, "Hey, guys, we're having the big communist move- uh, like, uh, get together.
Sam SederHOST
58:43
Um, the, uh...
Sam SederHOST
58:45
You've got a lot of endorsements, Justice Democrats, California Working Families Party, Courage California, California Labor Federation, National Union of Healthcare Workers, UAW Region 6, National Hearse, uh, Nurses, uh, United, CARE, Sacramento Democratic Socialists of America, uh, the DSA there, the Sunrise Movement, the ACC Action, Wellstone Democrats, Women Democrats of Sacramento County.
Sam SederHOST
59:14
Uh, I can't keep reading all of them, frankly.
Mai VangGUEST
59:17
[laughs]
Shalini RanderiaHOST
43:50
Please join me in November when my guest will be Lorraine Manos, a young American activist who was also a guest at the Democracy on the Brink meeting at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo.
Shalini RanderiaHOST
44:03
Lorraine began her career as a climate justice activist in the Sunrise Movement, then was political director of If Not Now, a movement opposing Israeli occupation of Gaza and West Banks, and is currently working with the Democracy Revival Center in Washington, D.C. We'll of course discuss in November the results of the U.S. midterm elections, which many of us around the world are watching with bated breath.
Shalini RanderiaHOST
44:33
But our conversation will focus largely on Lorraine's work of mobilization to bring about some fundamental changes in the American political and electoral system to make it truly democratic.
Shalini RanderiaHOST
44:48
Please go back and listen to any episode you might have missed and let your friends know about the podcast if you've enjoyed it.
Leah StokesGUEST
21:36
So that could be like electrifying your school or, you know, that your kid goes to, or it could be like getting your city government to get electric vehicles for their car fleet.
Leah StokesGUEST
21:46
And you're only going to be able to do those things with collective action, right? You have to join with others through, you know, like advocacy campaigns, right? Join like Third Act, for example, if you're older, or like the Sunrise Movement if you're younger, or Sierra Club, or start your own group with a bunch of friends.
Leah StokesGUEST
22:03
And that's what I'm trying to point people towards.
Leah StokesGUEST
22:06
You know, that's really what the story of the book then ends up being about.

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Cymene HoweHOST
32:26
And the carbon wave is going to be a part of that.
Cymene HoweHOST
32:28
But give us your hopeful read.
Leah StokesGUEST
32:30
Yeah, well, one of the reasons why I wrote this book was to try to attract and bring in more people to our movement, right? Because waves are bigger and more powerful when they are filled with more water, with more droplets, more people, right? And I think that was really the story of this time period, beginning in 2018 with the Green New Deal, the sit-in at Nancy Pelosi's office with a bunch of young activists in the Sunrise Movement and newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Leah StokesGUEST
32:57
You know, those people did this huge sit-in and then it catalyzed all this media coverage and activism and reports and ideas.
Leah C. StokesGUEST
24:40
It takes a lot of people both outside government to get ideas on the agenda.
Leah C. StokesGUEST
24:45
That's why I tell the story of the Sunrise Movement and the activists and the kids in the street.
Leah C. StokesGUEST
24:49
It takes people like Christy Goldfuss, who was really critical to rethinking how climate policy would get done and bringing labor in and bringing environmental justice in.
Leah C. StokesGUEST
24:58
And she hired a lot of key people and built organizations along with others to get us ready to do this in a different way.
Ali VelshiHOST
30:13
The Democratic Women's Caucus em- uh, endorsed the former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink.
Ali VelshiHOST
30:20
Senator Slotkin endorsed Matt Majchrzak, who is a Navy SEAL veteran, while Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed William Lawrence, a progressive and co-founder of the climate organization The Sunrise Movement.
Ali VelshiHOST
30:33
Lawrence emerged victorious.
Ali VelshiHOST
30:34
Among other things, Lawrence distinguished himself in the primary for campaigning hard against AI data center development.
Josh BarroHOST
33:14
Abdul El-Sayed pulled out that that primary victory in the Senate race.
Josh BarroHOST
33:19
There's a House district with this guy, Will Lawrence, who was one of the founders of the Sunrise Movement, who said a bunch of crazy shit about the nuclear family being, I don't know what it was, fascist or whatever.
Josh BarroHOST
33:32
But so a lot of establishment Democrats were looking very nervously in August at that Michigan Senate race.
Josh BarroHOST
33:40
But like, am I right to look at this as that, you know, it's a strong enough Democratic year and Abdul El-Sayed seems to be doing enough to mend fences on the Democratic side that basically he's not going to manage to lose that race?
Ben DreyfussHOST
36:52
My takeaway was that I was like, this guy is a moron.
Ben DreyfussHOST
36:56
And then I was looking at it, and I was like, oh, he found it.
Ben DreyfussHOST
36:58
Sunrise Movement, whoever gives a shit.
Ben DreyfussHOST
37:00
The dumbest group in the world.

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