The Hollywood Resistance Thinks Local

Adds Natalie Tran, the executive director of the CAA Foundation: Well see more of a focus on state and local levels. Climate advocates can surmise that any action to increase community resilience to climate disasters or build more renewable energy infrastructure is absolutely going to fall to the states, to cities, to civil society, to industry leaders, religious organizations, nonprofit organizations and to everyday people, argues Sarah Shanley Hope, the managing director of narratives strategics at The Solutions Project. Though this year the Jane Fonda Climate PAC endorsed Kamala Harris and congressional candidates that it believed would effectively combat the fossil fuel industry, it primarily focused on supporting candidates in downballot races, says the organizations executive director, Sarah Lane. [...]Conover and comedian Brennan Lee Mulligan headlined an event for Jillian Burgos, who lost her bid to represent District 2 on the City Council.