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Available and we'll get started in a moment Awesome Thank you so much. Yeah Well, welcome everybody. Thank you so much for being here on new and especially I'm slightly short notice my name is Josh I am one of the Co-founders of currently serving as the executive director for Sunrise and it is my distinct honor to be here today in my home state endorsing on behalf of Sunrise movement senator Marquee for election bid so And I have been you know a lifelong massachusetts' ban I grew up in act and I went to my family and it's just I feel really honored that both my senators are such incredible politicians and have been fighting so hard on the issues that matter to our generation the most so six years ago, I remember being actually a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Hammers when I first heard head marketing And I was voting for the first time in my life and I remember just doesn't organizes and students on my campus and across the state We're all supporting its effort to get it market into office statewide office as a senator because he was a candidate to stand with the indigenous communities with farmers and with young people and the people millions of people across America who are concerned about the Keystone Excel Pipeline Pipelines like it that reality series for our futures and futures of millions of people just like us and I remember him vowing to be the candidate that will stand up and fight for the future that we and I'm in in the past 10 months in particular that we have been working very closely with the senator Ed Marky has kept back comments He has become a critical champions New deal He stood with social movements and the young people thousands of people and call them fellow elected officials to rise to the occasion of this historic moment he's used to Cooper and his years of service in office to advance the movements for a regular cost not personal Because he ultimately believes mission and vision of what we're fighting for and I've also seen him take risks time and again during his tenure as ever to put the deal and policy like it front and Center in our politics begin the author and sponsor of the real deal resolution in the Senate Massachusetts residents and feels like what every single week I see Senator Markey different parts of the state but also across the country and earlier this year I was honored to be invited to gift at the state of the Union in January Meet with him in person for the first time you can really tell that this man who is emanates passion for the causes that we believe in and I asked him I was about it was a great opportunity to pick your brain about all these decades of working done I said, what was the difference between 2008 20 You're trying to cast to that name nine like what is so different about today and he said the name discount is that now we have an army of people outside the whole power Look joining us in this call for action and leading the way and now this army of people because he has stood with us. We are standing with him and we are thrilled and honored to be endorsing Ed Market for us The two Sarah who is one of our amazing sunrise Boston leaders to share if you burns on perspective organizing care Massachusetts Okay. Hi everybody It's actually was our meeting space and so back of my name is Sarah and I'm important our coordinator for the Sunrise Boston I wanna thank everybody for coming on such short notice The past few days have been an absolute whirlwind sure you can agree but we are extremely excited to be here tonight to officially endorse Senator Marky for the 2020 election I think he did a really amazing job of describing all the ways. The Center has been a champion over the years which has led to this endorsement but at the end of the day I think a lot of intimate boil down to this We can't imagine a future without leaders. Crew actually stand up for the health As young activists, we talked to politicians who made this promise to us all the time the Center markie has proven this you ask time and time again that he is really standing up for us and I wanna be really clear about what this endorsement means for sunrise yes Senator Markey sponsor new deal we're forever grateful but we still have an extremely stringent endorsement process that takes into account History on a number of key issues facing our generation that gets passed through a number of committees as waston and with the National Center Marquez shown his commitment to adjust future not only on climate change but on everything from defending reproductive rights to introducing the controller dislocation to standing up for the rights of families that is why we are endorsing him and I said babe I'm not only referring to the people in this room to tens of thousands of most passionate, strong forward looking young leaders in this country who are sick of being told that they don't have the power to change I would say they certainly do have the people power and we're getting with leaders like senator Market gives us political power that we need to actually make large scale change on a National level so that I wanna say Senator this is only beginning of a long partnership as we make our way closer and closer to the deadline but also together make sweeping change like this country hasn't seen we are going to continue to be accountable as I do us but right now I want to say we got that Thank you Sarah so much and thank you for all of your leadership as a an organizer in the hub of the universe the solar system we are in into watch me she is like a one woman International public interest moving on I think you for everything that you do in organizing this movement across our country and being my guest at the state of the Union address this year each senator gets to pick one person to be our guest up Looking down at Donald Trump All people in Massachusetts I thought that she should be the person A witness to what the denier in chief is trying to do our country as he speaks for more than an hour does not mention climate science at all knowing that this issue is an existential threat to the plant into the lives of the most vulnerable people on the planet who those who are most adversely affected by inaction On the part of the United States of America the only accept the world's population but with the most important because when we lead others follow and if we don't need that allows for people not to take action This issue and this issue of climate is the National security economic health and moral issue of our time and if we do not take action now the consequences are going to be catastrophic for the entire plan We know that scientists are new side of this to say that if we do not take action that the planet will along like upwards Nine degrees Fahrenheit between now and 20 - 100. The difference between 70 - nine degrees at 80 -. Eight degrees is having a nice walk and I think I should go inside where there's air conditioning and so that's what's happening and we know the Greenland is White in the cross hairs of this warming and if that ice Berg that ice cube Long 300 miles wide and it is 10 to 20 Empire State buildings. My it would cause upwards, according to scientists 11 foot rise in Sea which would be catastrophic not just for Massachusetts but it would be catastrophic and again those most diversity if I can see those who are the most So we know that the Green new deal is not just a resolution The Green new deal is a revolution We Across this country and the sunrise movement is the tip of the spear in this battle to make sure that we have politics are engaged every single day between now in 2020 So I thank all of you for everything that you are doing You are the Armani demanding action on the ex essential threat of climate change This generation of young people is rising up to demand Tomorrow and National security and environmental issue and we all know that you will not be stopped by climate and I are all the possible period industry you you out of wet hunts The dreams of oil You will not be stopped by the denier in Chief Donald Trump You will not be stuck in your efforts in leaders act on climate and that they act now you are not agonizing you are organizing and you will not stop until we win Yeah Today to receive sunrise it's be a part of this grass roots jogging on finding of bold action on climate sunrise is my friend my inspiration my great partner in the effort to unreach a Green new deal of the airway greens So the jobs and employee us to the neighborhoods in which we live to our climate change to find out Existence this generation of young people is experiencing a climate that is straight from the record books If you were born after the year 2000 every year you've been alive has been one of the Earth 20 Wellness years on July was the hottest month ever recorded in history every month this year has been Top five hottest on record month in history If we don't have in the northeast, we could be facing catastrophic conditions Recently Greenland lost 12 point five billion tons of ice in just a single day doesn't not to cover Florida with almost five inches of water That's just one day with the Amazon The lungs of the planet is also on fire wildfires are consuming the Amazon at a rate of more than two football fields team mit we can and we must have a Green new deal for America that transforms our economy create millions of new jobs and lifts up and protects almost vulnerable communities which have won the front of our addiction to fossil fuels The Green new deal is about jobs small chest with a Green new deal. We can engage in massive job creation It wanted to say Of creation we have on this scale before and we must do it again We have the technology to do it We have the moral obligation to do We have economic courage to do it We just need the political will to do they yeah that he created in our country so that on the ballot next November every single congressman and senator knows they're going to be held accountable by Entire generation of Americans Yeah, Joe our our country has let them down that they allowed the catastrophic conditions to rise as a threat to them during their lifetimes So that's why this movement is so incredibly important This army of young people in this room and across the country will lead the movement that implements the solutions to end the climate crisis The Sun is On a dirty energy well, the past we are watching the Sun run new era of climate action so I thank you all for allowing me to be with you I'm flesh to continue value in the United States said every single day now is the time you other people Let's get to work on the Green new deal I will be your voice on the floor of the state Senate every single day Thank you Good Okay. 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