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Green Corps organizer John Stewart organized a Green Jobs Day of Action event in Madison, WI on September 27th, 2008. |
When 1Sky, a new collaborative campaign for bold federal action to stop global warming, wanted to expand their base of support and raise the visibility of global warming in the presidential debates, they called Green Corps.
Green Corps organizers are working with 1Sky to bring together diverse constituencies in support of bold solutions to global warming: the creation of 5 million green jobs and pathways out of poverty by investing in a new energy economy; the reduction of global warming at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 percent by 2050; and a moratorium on new coal plants that emit global warming pollution.
Green Corps organizers are working in Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Dakota, and Ohio to raise the profile and visibility of global warming as an issue in the media and directly with the presidential candidates or the campaigns in key battleground states. They are working with economic justice activists, labor unions, faith leaders, business people, young people, and many others to organize coordinated national actions to demonstrate broad support from the public for bold action on global warming. Working in partnership with Green for All and the We Campaign, Green Corps organizers coordinated events for the “Green Jobs Day of Action” on September 27th, mobilizing thousands of citizen activists and garnering dozens of news stories.
Green Corps organizers have been attending presidential candidate events with volunteers to get the candidates on record concerning their global warming policy. Green Corps organizer Carolyn Auwaeter attended a Joe Biden campaign event in Maumee, OH and questioned him about his stance on "clean coal." She posted a video of the interaction on Youtube, which got picked up by numerous political blogs and news outlets, generating responses from both the McCain and Obama campaigns.
