Ocasio-Cortez unveils Green New Deal art posters in New York district

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Friday unveiled a new art series for her district in the Bronx and Queens highlighting her Green New Deal proposal.

“These posters push us to imagine our future with a Green New Deal in two of our beloved NY-14 parks: Pelham Bay & Flushing Meadows,” the freshman congresswoman wrote on Twitter.

The first posters, made in the U.S. and printed at union shops, will be given out to constituents during a Family Nature Day at the Pelham Bay Park on Saturday. They will soon be available to purchase, she wrote.

These posters push us to imagine our future with a Green New Deal in two of our beloved NY-14 parks: Pelham Bay & Flushing Meadows.

All our #GND posters are made in the US, union-printed & will be available for purchase soon, but available at organizing events now.

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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez said in a subsequent tweet that the posters are inspired by the New Deal, a series of programs and public works projects instituted under former President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s.

Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.

During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America’s future.

Left, #TeamAOC; right, original US New Deal pic.twitter.com/l3PZzlEhzw

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 30, 2019

While the images currently highlight her hometown, the New York progressive said the posters will soon expand to represent local communities across the country.{mosads}

Ocasio-Cortez also hinted that a line of Green New Deal-inspired reusable products is in the works.

The first-term lawmaker teamed up with Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to introduce the Green New Deal resolution earlier this year, an ambitious climate policy proposal that has sparked widespread debate among Democrats. The proposal, titled “Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal,” has a goal of creating millions of “good, high-wage jobs” by striving for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.

Republicans have lambasted the proposal, attempting to use it to paint Democrats as too radical on climate policy.