Comments on: Our Window of Opportunity: How FDR and LBJ would have tackled the Climate Crisis

By: How Senate Democrats Will Determine Our Future « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:31:21 +0000

[...] in many posts on itsgettinghot by the Obama administration’s behavior and decisions in the First 100 Days. There are many tools available to the President to make change immediately, from budget proposals [...]

By: Engage the Nation, Educate Congress: The National Teach-In on Global Warming. February 5th, 2009. « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:02:20 +0000

[...] advocates must set our sights on the next step: Bird-dogging Obama and Congress throughout the First 100 Days of his administration. In order to achieve the wide array of solutions that we need to stabilize the climate, re-imagine [...]

By: R Margolis

R Margolis — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:03:39 +0000

Also in history movements often join together to gain the necessary numbers (e.g. sufferage and temperance). The recent call for “green jobs” may be an opportunity to bring enough folks together to pressure the politicians during this time of financial turmoil.

By: The Wave « It’s Getting Hot In Here

The Wave « It’s Getting Hot In Here — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:39:44 +0000

[...] Morgan, October 25th, 2008 Government , United States I was inspired by the recent post on the first 100 days of LBJ and FDR. In case you missed it, both used a strong majority and strong vision to quickly legislate a series [...]

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:06:12 +0000

Here, here.

This is an excellent post, and one that more of us should read as the election nears and we find time to start thinking beyond.

We know we need to be bold in addressing climate change, but how bold? We know we need to radically change the country, and I hope that we haven’t gotten so used to things being the way they are that we can imagine the sweeping change that these two presidents enacted.

When the labor movement approached FDR in the early part of his presidency, they asked for certain things and he said he didn’t have the political pull to make them happen, and they needed to go out and organize and force him to do it. They did, and the political will they exerted on him led to some of the stronger and longer lasting pieces of the new deal. There is no doubt that a progressive majority or super-majority in this country will demand a huge amount of organizing. Delicate, strategic and hard organizing, but we’ll need to organize against coal, organize against waste and organize for people.