12 Facts About Sunrise Movement

Sunrise Movement is an American 501 political action organization that advocates political action on climate change.

Sunrise Movement organized a similar event in February 2019, bringing a group of young people to confront Senator Dianne Feinstein in her office.

Since the 2018 elections, the Sunrise Movement has focused on the climate change proposals collectively known as the Green New Deal, whose core principles have been described as "decarbonization, jobs, and justice".

Sunrise Movement planned a sit-in in Pelosi's office and asked Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to help them publicize the event, which she instead decided to join herself.

Sunrise Movement continued to campaign for House members to sign onto the plan to create a select committee for the Green New Deal, as opposed to simply resurrecting the old committee.

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The Sunrise Movement shared a video of the interaction, shortened so that it "focused on clips of the most tense moments" via social media and on its website.

Sunrise Movement later posted the longer, unedited video on Facebook, resulting in controversy over whether the short version emphasized scenes intended to make Feinstein appear less sympathetic to the viewer.

Senator Feinstein characterized the discussion as "spirited", while the executive director of the Sunrise movement said that Feinstein's treatment of the students was evidence that the Democratic Party required "fundamental change".

In early 2019, the Sunrise Movement defined one of its major goals as pressuring the Democratic National Committee to hold a single-issue presidential debate on climate change.

On June 26,2019, Sunrise Movement activists slept on the steps of the DNC office in Washington, DC, to protest the lack of focus of the Democratic primary debates on the climate crisis, and to call for a focused debate on climate change.

In late 2020, the Sunrise Movement began their Climate Mandate campaign by putting pressure on Joe Biden to pick a "climate cabinet" that would work towards Sunrise's goals such as the Green New Deal, and pushing for Biden to establish the "Office of Climate Mobilization".

Sunrise Movement is organized into decentralized "hubs" that operate in cities and towns across the United States.