Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Rock County Progressives Present an Educational Forum

 

 

Climate Change

and the

Green New Deal

 

Speakers:

• Alexandra Tempus
  • is associate editor of The Progressive Magazine.

   

  • has reported extensively on the ways climate change influences where and how we live at The Progressive, Orion, The Nation, Vice News, Verso books blog and elsewhere. She’s a 2016-2017 Climate and Environmental Justice Literary Fellow for migrant rights organization CultureStrike, and a 2018 Climate Solutions Fellow for the New Economy Coalition’s New Economies Reporting Project. Tempus served as a researcher at Rolling Stone, The Intercept, and BuzzFeed from 2014-2017. She was a lead researcher on Naomi Klein’s 2014 bestseller This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate. Follow her @tempus_flies.

   

  • Some of her recent articles include:

   

  • “In Search of the Good Guys. There are good guys under capitalism. They’re just the ones actively subverting it.”

   

  • “Looking for Trump Country in Green Bay With Wisconsin central to the 2020 race, the President descended on my hometown.”