Transformed Life in the Green New Deal
Illuminating stories that must become real
Anthony Mays
Returning Citizen | Disassembly Operator at the Deconstruction and Decommission Authority
2035
"...Like I said earlier, when I saw the position, it was a huge upgrade from anything I thought I could get, so I applied for the apprenticeship program right away. I was an apprentice for six months – with the same pay – and then became a full-fledged employee.
"I really didn’t know much about the energy system management prior to my experience with the DDA, but as it turns out, the Industrial Maintenance degree I was working towards was a great fit for the Disassembly Operator role..."
In a few more years, I hope to be a Co-Manager for the Convent facility in the Parish..."
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The Meaux Family
Regional Nurses with the Delta Regional Authority
2035
“We’re often driving to a Decommissioning Site providing on-site checkups, interviewing workers, and gathering other information on their general well-being and job satisfaction. While I’m really appreciative of what the Green New Deal has offered my family, my job challenges me to recognize that not everybody feels the same way...""
"I have one client that moved from an oil rig to installing renewable resources, and he’s always talking about the reduced pay, different type of co-workers, and other gripes he has with the job..."
Some of his opinions will never change, but he's taken a new perspective to how clean energy creates a better future for his grandchildren..."
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Angelina Hamilton
Indigenous Organizer | Director at the Rivers & Coasts Dept.
2040
...At the Rivers & Coasts Dept., I help to train to new cohorts of wetland repair coordinators employed through the Public Works Program. In 2030, the Environmental Protection Agency increased their investment in the existing State and Tribal Wetland Program Plans and opened or restored many programs that had lapsed or not been created yet, in addition to enhancing tribal control of funding streams and project management.
"As a result, I have a fairly autonomous position that requires little reporting and more on-the-ground management, leading to higher rates of wetland preservation...”
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A Renewed Delta Regional Authority
Regional governance for collectivism, regernation, and care.
A Renewed Delta Regional Authority (DRA)
The renewed Delta Regional Authority will expand from an underfunded economic development grantmaker into a body with the resources and leadership structure needed to implement ambitious projects across its three main departments:
These departments will spearhead 8 different programs, of which 3 will be presented today. Leading the DRA will be a powerful board composed of state governors - as is currently the case - alongside tribal leaders, environmental justice and federal government representatives.
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Future Events
Recreational activities that bring consciousness to progress
Lake Charles Town Reunion
Feb 10-12, 2040 | Downtown Jonesboro, AR
Now in its fifth year, the Town Reunion is a 3-day festival of food, music, dancing, and community. With events for all ages, the fete brings together families from across the Delta region to commemorate the strong communal bonds and Cajun culture that persists despite geographical dispersion.
After migrating to Jonesboro, Arkansas from Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2035, the Meaux family helped organize a Lake Charles Town Reunion, which has since turned into an annual affair of celebration and remembrance of their hometown.
2024 IDAR Deconstruction Celebration
Sep 27, 2024 | Angola Memorial Justice Center
Now in its fifth year, the Town Reunion is a 3-day festival of food, music, dancing, and community. With events for all ages, the fete brings together families from across the Delta region to commemorate the strong communal bonds and Cajun culture that persists despite geographical dispersion.
After migrating to Jonesboro, Arkansas from Lake Charles, Louisiana in 2035, the Meaux family helped organize a Lake Charles Town Reunion, which has since turned into an annual affair of celebration and remembrance of their hometown.
Free the Mississippi Levee Work Camp Memorial Wetland Walk and Natural Foods Forage
March 21, June 21, and Sep 21, 2038 | Levee Work Camp Memorial Wetland
National Water Cooperative Service's Public Outreach and Engagement local team have collaborated with the Choctaw Nation Tribal Wetland Program Coordinator to bring together local communities, tribal elders, and their families on a series of knowledge-sharing walks in the new memorial marshes, roughly one walk per season.
Walkers are encouraged to reflect on their experience and record their impressions and memories about the wetlands and levees. Elders or their family members will be passing along knowledge about using the wetland's plants: foraging for spring onions to make an omelets, making river cane fishing spears, and demonstrating the harvest and steeping of Yaupon leaves for a ceremonial drink.