![]() ![]() “In the midst of mass unemployment and the pandemic, we need to pass the THRIVE agenda,” said Mitchell in a statement to Prism. National director of the Working Families Party Maurice Mitchell touted the agenda’s plan to put millions back to work and promote a clean, renewable energy economy. “Everything is connected, and we do ourselves a grave disservice by maintaining normality when momentum is on our side and the people are demanding more.” “We can’t address a pandemic that is ravaging Black and brown people without ensuring access to quality healthcare and the basic right of not living with or drinking toxic pollutants,” said Lewis. Speaking about the importance of the THRIVE agenda, national field director for the Movement for Black Lives Karissa Lewis called for a transformative system and challenged those looking to meet the current moment to move beyond short-term solutions. ![]() “Often Alaska and the Arctic are left on the sidelines or purposely excluded from legislation, so that they can be exploited, even in some of the most progressive policies,” Miller said. “I’ve been working for the past few months with Indigenous Environmental Network and a few of our other partners to help inform the policy writing of the THRIVE agenda to make sure that it is thoughtful and it’s careful about the specific language that advocates for Indigenous and environmental protections,” Miller said.Ī member of the Curyung Tribe, Miller was born and raised in Dgheyay Kaq’ (Anchorage, Alaska). Miller said the THRIVE agenda challenges people to reconsider what they consider realistic and actionable. The pillars include providing safe jobs and access to unions, giving workers resources to fight inequality, investing in Black, brown, and Indigenous communities to build power and counteract racial and gender injustice, strengthening the nation-to-nation relationship with sovereign Native nations, and combating environmental injustice and ensuring healthy lives for all. Titled “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to implement an agenda to Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy (THRIVE),” the THRIVE agenda contains eight pillars aimed at addressing the ongoing economic and climate crisis impacting communities across the country. “The THRIVE agenda is a complex, beautiful, and emergent document that reflects communities from across the country and occupied territories of the U.S.,” said Ruth Miller, the climate justice organizer for Native Movement. Demanding a bold economic agenda, members of Congress joined a grassroots coalition and labor unions in setting forth the THRIVE agenda in response to the current economic crisis. Introduced last week, the THRIVE agenda proposes a set of economic policy prescriptions that shift the American imagination of what is possible in legislation. ![]()
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