Nearly 150 Climate Activists Arrested in Mass Demonstration for Green New Deal

More than 1,000 young adults risked arrest Monday in Washington, D.C. by flooding the offices of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.). It’s the second time this winter that the Sunrise Movement has taken to the capitol in what Sunrise Movement co-founder Varshini Prakash referred to as part of a concentrated effort, “[to] build policy support and people power” around a Green New Deal.

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Christina Colón, a former Sojourners associate editor, is a teaching assistant at Boston University.

Kayla is a Video Producer at Sojourners.