Neil Penn, Third Act Eugene: In terms of building power, it’s a two-step dance, both critiquing the illegitimacy and the corruption and simultaneously promoting the kind of inclusive society we wish to build.
Presenter: Neil Penn talks about the origin of the group Third Act, and why its Eugene members will be participating in the No Kings protest June 14 alongside 350 Eugene.
Neil Penn (Third Act, Eugene): Bill McKibben, who is probably the foremost environmentalist in the country, he started the organization 350.org; 350 is the flagship organization. And then after a while, Third Act was the carve-out.
[00:00:30] It made sense that persons 60 or over probably have more time on their hands so they could go to county commission meetings, lobbying days, and because a large component of both organizations is the ‘Move the Money’ campaigns, which is to say, most people, you know, they’re not aware that when they put money in certain financial institutions, it’s going to fund coal or petroleum…