FROM EIR DAILY ALERT
Young Jacobins Invade Congress, Demand Democrats Embrace ‘Green New Deal’ Fascism
Dec. 12, 2018 (EIRNS)—On Dec. 10, more than 1,000 young people of the rabidly environmentalist “Sunrise Movement” descended on Capitol Hill, and staged sit-ins at the offices of Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Steney Hoyer (D-MD), and Jim McGovern (D-MA), to demand that the Democratic leadership embrace the genocidal Green New Deal espoused by freshman New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to eliminate all fossil fuels in the U.S. in ten years.
Among the demands of what the “grassroots” Sunrise Movement calls its “rapid, massive wartime mobilization to combat climate change,” is the creation of a select Congressional committee before year’s end, empowered to draft a climate change bill by 2020 requiring 100% of electricity generation to come from renewable sources within the decade, the Washington Examiner reported today. Ocasio-Cortez is the ringleader and idol of this group and was in the middle of the sit-in at Pelosi’s office, as young people around her chanted, “We gonna rise up, rise up, ’til it’s won!” Police arrested 138 protesters.
The Sunrise Movement is backed by the 350.org organization, which has tax-exempt charity status, and a political committee, 350 Action, run by environmentalist wacko Bill McKibben. McKibben’s “350 Action” and Sunrise often deploy together. McKibben’s 350.org outfit is generously funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and various anonymous donors with deep pockets, who also appear to be supporting the Sunrise Movement. Its website has no information about its financing, aside from the fact that it began with a “small” grant from the Sierra Club. Sunrise appears modeled on the Resistance Movement, and takes credit for the fact that since its first sit-in last month, 22 Democrats have now endorsed the Green New Deal, the latest of whom is Jim McGovern who is slated to become the new chairman of the House Rules Committee.
Pelosi, Hoyer and McGovern all praised the “passion” of the young protesters, but made no firm commitments on reinstating the select committee. Sen. John Barroso (R-WY), head of the Senate Republican Policy Committee who also chairs the Environmental and Public Works Committee, issued a policy paper warning that the Green New Deal would be both technically impossible and very expensive. It would cost trillions, he said, according to the Washington Examiner.
