Organized by the Sunrise Movement, over 200 youth activists supported by then-representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took over House minority leader Nancy Pelosi's office the morning of November 13, 2018, lobbying Democrats to act decisively on climate change.  Pelosi's first address to the 116th session of Congress Thursday, January 3, 2019 stating that she would be "reinstituting the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis" was not sufficient to satisfy the demands of the Sunrise Movement. Varshini Prakash, founder of the Sunrise Movement, was quoted as saying, "[We are] feeling really disappointed that Nancy Pelosi had failed to follow the leadership of the 45 members of Congress, including some of the freshest faces of the Democratic Party – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Joe Neguse, so many more – in calling for a select committee for a Green New Deal." Mid-January, Alexandria...(Read Full Post)