Jessica Corbett is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
'Now is the time to go for the jugular. Now is the time to kill the fossil fuel industry, because we don't have another chance at survival after this.' That's what Jamie Minden, senior director of global organizing for the youth-led group Zero Hour , told the audience Saturday during The Sanders Institute Gathering, in Burlington, Vermont.
While touring the Hanwha Qcells solar facility in Dalton, Jealous asked about a wall of drawings and paintings. He learned that they were created for Earth Day last year by children of the employees, who were asked to portray 'how they see their parents working at this factory.' 'In maybe the most, arguably the most conservative congressional district in America,' workers' children 'portrayed their parents as heroes saving the planet,' he said.
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