Introduction
In this podcast Movement Monitor Fellow Isabella Todd interviews Dan Sherrell, from the Australian Council of Trade Unions, and Desiree Cai, from the Tomorrow Movement. They discuss the lessons learnt from campaigning around a policy and legislation win, in the form of the 2024 founding of the Net Zero Authority. In particular they explore how this work brought together and strengthened relationships between unions, climate activists and others.
Isabella Todd carried this interview as part of the 2024 Movement Monitor Research Fellowship.
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Transcript coming soon.
The union movement and climate movement are two key pillars of that new alignment in the left and between progressives that we need in order to win change at the scale and speed that we need to solve the climate crisis, but also, all the other crises that we’re collectively feeling the brunt of right now. – Desiree Cai, Tomorrow Movement
Movement Monitor Fellows Project
This resource was produced as part of the Movement Monitor Fellows project. Three climate activists were given support to produce resources that promote knowledge and understanding of the Australian climate movement, its practices and its impacts.
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