{"id":363601,"date":"2017-03-21T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grist.org\/?post_type=grist-50-profiles&amp;p=363601"},"modified":"2017-03-21T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T06:30:08","slug":"progressive-movements-are-too-divided-anthony-torres-is-building-a-united-multiracial-front","status":"publish","type":"grist-50-profiles","link":"https:\/\/grist.org\/grist-50\/profile\/progressive-movements-are-too-divided-anthony-torres-is-building-a-united-multiracial-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive movements are too divided. Anthony Torres is building a united, multiracial front."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"g50-profile__stats-block profile__stats-block--profile-363601 \">Campaign Representative, Sierra Club<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\nAge: 22<\/aside>\n<p>A lot of climate hawks spent late 2016 and early 2017 in reassessment or mourning. Meanwhile, Anthony Torres was busy channeling his fellow engaged millennials into direct action, including coordinated sit-ins at the offices of New York\u2019s Chuck Schumer, the new Senate Minority Leader, and Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware. The message: Do not play ball with the polluter-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p>[pullquote]\u201cFor folks who are looking for a better way in their local communities: Start the hard conversations. Resist often in the ways you know best, because you are from that community.\u201d [\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p>The son of a Nicaraguan immigrant father and a New Yorker mother, Torres grew up with sea-level rise on his Long Island doorstep, and he understands how inequality, climate, and other social challenges are all knitted together. He\u2019s proven especially adept at rallying peers to his side, both in an official capacity at the Sierra Club (where he helped coordinate communications and direct actions that aided in a defeat of the Trans-Pacific Partnership) and in extracurricular work with groups like #AllOfUs, a progressive collective aimed at organizing young people around threatened communities.<\/p>\n<p>His advice on connecting different constituencies: \u201cActivists need to create a story that is accessible to people who are not necessarily in our movements but who are in need of a bold and inspiring vision,\u201d Torres says. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s telling a story of America that intersects with race, gender, and class\u201d and turning what might seem like differences into \u201ca weapon in our arsenal that creates an America that never has happened before &#8212; a country for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This post has been updated.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This organizer is uniting millennials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57007830,"featured_media":490303,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-363601","grist-50-profiles","type-grist-50-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","grist-50-13","grist-50-justice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Progressive movements are too divided. 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