Democratic State Assembly Nominee for the 57th District Phara Souffrant Forrest

This week on 2 Degrees, we talk with Phara Souffrant Forrest, the Democratic State Assembly Nominee for the 57th District. We talk about her activist background, what inspired her to run for Assembly, and her priorities for the 2021 legislative session.

In this episode of 2 Degrees, we welcome 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben onto our podcast to talk about how he got his start in the climate movement. We delve into 350.org’s international divestment campaign, the impacts climate change has on the Global South as well as how the climate movement has grown over the past decades.

This week on 2 Degrees, we talk with Jabari Brisport, the Democratic State Senate Nominee for the 25th District. We discuss his background and how he got into electoral politics in the first place along with his priorities for the upcoming legislative session in 2021.

In this episode of 2 Degrees, we talk to Pete Sikora and Gustavo Gordillo from the Movement for a Green New Deal Coalition about what their mission and demands are for combating the climate crisis in New York State. We discuss the coalition’s recent events and delve into an important development in their campaign for public power.

In this episode of 2 Degrees, we explore the provisions of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) with Bob Cohen of Citizen Action. The CLCPA is a nation-leading piece of climate legislation that was signed into law in July of 2019 and sets ambitious goals to fight climate change in New York State.

In this episode of 2 Degrees, we talk to Mark Dunlea and Jordan Dale of the Divest NY Coalition about divestment in New York State and a bill currently in the state legislature: the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act. We discuss the importance of divestment and announce a big development in the #DivestNY campaign.

Welcome to this episode of 2 degrees, a podcast created by the New York Youth Climate Leaders! New York Youth Climate Leaders (NY2CL) is an organization of youth dedicated to advocating for the solutions to combat the existential threat of climate change. NY2CL was founded by just 3 high-schoolers, and has grown in less than a year to become a coalition of over 60 youth organizations across New York State. Learn about how this came to be and what this coalition does by listening to the insight from the 3 founders themselves.