Newt vs. green jobs: The showdown

We've been beating the drum pretty hard here around the Green Jobs Now day of action (hate to nag, but did you sign up yet?). But as David Sassoon at SolveClimate points out, Saturday is shaping up to be a showdown between Big Oil & Coal vs. a grassroots movement fighting for green jobs and a clean economy:

In one corner, weighing in with the blood and burden of 150 years of the fossil fuel era, wearing a business suit, is Newt Gingrich. And in the other corner, almost weightless with the audacity of hope, wearing work clothes and holding a caulk gun, is....Patrick!

Have a look at the video yourself.

The showdown reaches a head this Saturday, September 27th.

Gingrich's group - called American Solutions for Winning the Future -- is promoting a national day to broadcast more of the same old uber-macho approach to energy: Drill Here. Drill Now. Pay Less. -- even though the "pay less" part is a lie. His strategy relies on a communications strategy akin Chinese water torture. Repeat something often enough and people lose their minds.

The Green Jobs Now coalition -- Green For All, 1Sky and the WE campaign working together -- already has almost 600 events lined up in all 50 states to counter the fossil fuel machine and stop the torture.

It's worth pointing out that the funders behind ASWF are essentially the same crowd of billionaire businessmen (the poorest one of which is "only" worth $1 billion) who have funded the right wing and its "uber-macho approach to energy" for years. Their organization may have the word "future" in its name, but their approach to energy is definitely out of the past.

If you haven't already, sign up and join us (and Patrick!) on Saturday and help us show Newt and his friends what a real grassroots movement for change looks like.