Winning a Green New Deal for New England
Renew New England is
a new and growing coalition of leading grassroots organizers, labor unions, racial justice groups, frontline communities, environmental advocates, and more than two hundred candidates for state and local office.
We’ve come together to address our region’s overlapping crises: mass unemployment, racial injustice, the coronavirus pandemic, and climate change. We’re fighting for a region wide Jobs Guarantee, universal healthcare, affordable housing, racial justice, and bold climate action.
We need to build power. We need to build it deeply so that we can not only win the systemic changes we need, but sustain them through the inevitable, fierce backlash that will be unleashed in response to those changes; we need to build this power at scale.
We Are Building a Model for Power-Building
Renew aims to develop, execute and demonstrate a new model for deep power-building that can be scaled on the timeframe necessary to meet the crises we face. Our model builds power by integrating across four divides.
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Get Involved
Renew New England is a grassroots-powered movement – we need you to get involved near you!
Renew Champions
We need bold leaders who will fight for the people of New England, not corporate lobbyists or the super rich.
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In 2020, we worked with over two hundred candidates across the region, all of whom committed to support the Renew Policy Framework when elected and to refuse donations from the fossil fuel industry.
Our candidates won 66% of their races in state primaries this year (47 of 71).
Including a stunning 52% of primary challenges to sitting incumbents.
Bernie
Sanders
“New England has historically been a leader in the fight for progressive change from the first
days of our country. And I’m so glad to see organizations in all New England states coming
together in the fight for justice – in the fight for environmental justice and combating climate
change, in the fight for racial justice, in the fight for social justice, in the fight for economic
justice.”
Ayanna
Pressley
“Our present and our future will be defined by the success of our intersectional organizing work.
As our communities grapple with crises within crises, it is clear that we cannot simply return to
‘normal,’ because ‘normal’ left too many people behind. Renew New England brings together
organizations with a long track record of working in partnership with community to fight for
equity and justice; I'm glad to be a part of continuing to grow this movement, and centering the
voices of those most impacted to usher in a real power shift.”
Naomi
Klein
“Renew New England is a beacon, inviting us to build the future we all need, together. It is a
meeting place of visionary social movements and exciting electoral figures - both new and
longstanding. And it is committed to regional solutions that will actually solve the many crises
we face, weaving together economic, climate, and racial justice. Renew New England is
precisely the coalition this historic moment requires.”
Dr. Abdul
El-Sayed
“As a former health commissioner, I understand all too clearly how racial injustice, economic
injustice, climate change, and public health intertwine. And if we are going to take on these
interlocking challenges, it’s going to take a regional, if not national approach. I applaud and
support this critical work.”
Endorsements
On June 30, we launched Renew New England — a new, regionwide movement to win a Jobs Guarantee, universal healthcare, racial justice, and bold climate action. Tune in to our virtual kickoff rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep Ro Khanna, Rev Mariama White-Hammond & Varshini Prakash of Sunrise Movement!