Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was nominated for an Emmy for her film project “Art of the Green New Deal.”
“So… while 2020 is highly unpredictable, I definitely did not expect to be nominated for an Emmy Award for our Green New Deal project with @theintercept, @mollycrabapple, @NaomiAKlein & others,” the New York Democrat wrote on Twitter. “Rather shocked & very grateful.”
The seven-minute film, which was a collaboration with The Intercept, is narrated by Ocasio-Cortez and illustrated by Molly Crabapple.
“Set a couple of decades from now, it’s a flat-out rejection of the idea that a dystopian future is a forgone conclusion,” The Intercept article introducing the video states. “Instead, it offers a thought experiment: What if we decided not to drive off the climate cliff? What if we chose to radically change course and save both our habitat and ourselves?”
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The film was nominated under the News & Documentary category, along with The Rachel Maddow Show for its segment “Tiller and Beyond: Abortion Wars in Kansas,” “Equal Play” from the 360aproko news, Real America with Jorge Ramos for its “Detained by a Dictator” segment, and CNN’s New Day Weekend for “‘Infested,’ He Says.”
The Green New Deal is a massive economic overhaul spearheaded by a new of progressive lawmakers, including liberal firebrand Ocasio-Cortez.
Modeled after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal package, the Green New Deal is designed to tackle climate change and income inequality, with an estimated cost of $7 trillion.
The Senate in April 2019 failed to begin debate on the nonbinding resolution after 42 Democrats and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., voted “present.” No senator voted to begin debate on the legislation, while 57 lawmakers voted against breaking the filibuster.
