#nextgen climate

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Tell your Senators: Reject Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State

The Senate must fight to protect American values by defeating this dangerous nomination. The world is watching.

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Aziz Ansari Makes a Meta Voting PSA That, at This Point, He Can’t Believe He Has to Make

This election year is ridiculous in a way that voting is more important than ever. Aziz Ansari hits this point home and adds that it’s unbelievable he has to use his celebrity to tell anyone to vote. 

Watch Aziz’s PSA here, then, of course, find your polling place here courtesy of NextGen Climate.

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NextGen Climate released a new video today starring Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman that urges millennials to exercise their vote on behalf of candidates who have concrete plans to address the climate crisis and transition our country to a clean energy economy.

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Animation I made with narration recorded by Natalie Portman!

[rjzimmerman]

NextGen Climate Action is heading to college campuses in seven states.

Excerpt:

The environmental super PAC NextGen Climate Action announced plans on Monday to engage young voters at 203 college campuses prior to November’s elections.

Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor behind NextGen, told reporters that the group will spend about $25 million to register young voters, educate them about presidential and senatorial candidates’ stances on climate and energy issues and motivate them to show up on election day.

NextGen will be holding events in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire, Nevada, Illinois and Colorado — seven battleground states where “millennial voters would make a difference,” said Heather Hargreaves, NextGen’s vice president. The group has already been active for the past six months in Iowa, New Hampshire and Ohio, at schools like Ohio State University and Drake University, she said.

[rjzimmerman]

Video highlighting Pope Francis’ climate change and environmental encyclical, Laudato Si’.

Description from EcoWatch:

Beginning this week, NextGen Climate will launch a robust national advertising campaign that will reach millions of Americans and amplify the Pope’s powerful message. The new television ad, “Dear World,” which will run in both English and Spanish, features excerpts from the Pope’s climate change encyclical in a powerful call to action. This ad will air in Washington, DC, Ohio, New Hampshire, Iowa, Florida and Pennsylvania and on national cable as part of a $2 million ad buy.

As part of the national campaign, next week NextGen Climate and Sojourners will publish a letter from national and state faith leaders calling on our political leaders to answer Pope Francis’ call to action on climate change. The letter will run as a full-page ad in the New York Times, Des Moines Register, Concord Monitor, Miami Herald and the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

NextGen Climate is also running digital ads on Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter and the websites of The New York Times and The Hill during the Pope’s visit to the U.S.

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TransCanada — the foreign oil company behind Keystone XL — is trying to use eminent domain to seize private property from American farmers and ranchers.

Help out the farmers and ranchers by opposing having an oil pipeline run through farmers’ private property.

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The “Hot Seat” is the new initiative of Tom Steyer’s NextGen Climate. Here’s an explanation of the initiative, and this video, from the NextGen web site:

America is at an energy crossroads, and there is nearly a billion dollars in money from the Koch brothers’ network standing in the way of real solutions that will move our country forward. But there’s good news: Republican presidential hopefuls’ willingness to deny basic science and put our country at risk in their pursuit of the Kochs’ campaign cash is a serious liability with voters.

NextGen Climate (NGC) is launching the Hot Seat—a high-tech war room that will track Koch-backed presidential candidates and put them in the Hot Seat for their science denial and support for policies that only serve the best interests of the Kochs.

Based in NGC’s San Francisco headquarters with satellite offices in D.C. and key states, the Hot Seat will turn the Koch money trail into a negative for Republicans. Whether they are shaking hands and kissing babies in Iowa or hosting a town hall in New Hampshire, we’ll be ready to strike when Republicans kowtow to the Koch brothers and deny basic science.