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The Vast Majority: Winning a Radical Green New Deal with Alyssa Battistoni, Carlos Rosa and Sean Estelle

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a new book out: ‘A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal,’ by Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Kate Aronoff, and Thea Riofrancos. Alyssa was recently in Chicago, so we held a book launch party and panel discussion featuring Carlos Rosa, socialist and Chicago city council member; Sean Estelle, elected member of the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America; and Micah, your humble host and Jacobin editor.

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jacobin Managing Editor Micah Utrich

0:09.8

recording an intro for this podcast from a very noisy room in the Jackbinn Chicago office

0:16.1

after a panel discussion on a Green New Deal and the new book A Planet to Win

0:21.3

Why We Need a Green New Deal.

0:23.3

It's out now from Versailles as part of the Jacobin series.

0:26.8

On the panel we have Alyssa Battestoni, who's an editorial board member of

0:31.0

Jacobin, as well as a co-author of the book, 35th Ward. board National Ecosocialist Working Group as well as a member of the National

0:43.8

Political Committee of the Democratic Socialist of America, Sean Estelle.

0:48.1

Here's our discussion.

0:50.0

Thanks everybody for coming out on a Saturday night here at in these times. My name is

0:57.2

Micah Utrich. I'm the managing editor of Jacobin magazine. I'm very grateful that we're joined by somebody who is a

1:05.9

non-Chicagawan, one non-chicagwin on this on this panel, A

1:08.7

A

1:10.1

A Planet to Win

1:12.6

Why We Need a Green New Deal.

1:14.6

And let me just introduce Alyssa and everyone else

1:16.4

who's on the panel.

1:17.7

Alyssa Baddestoni is a postdoctoral fellow

1:20.7

at Harvard's Center for the Environment, co-author of this book, a member of the

1:25.1

editorial board of Jacobin, author of many great articles for us about the

1:31.1

environment and many other topics.

1:33.3

And one of the four authors of the book

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