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KELSEY WIRTH: Hi.

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Can you hear me?

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Great, Thanks.

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It's a pleasure to be here
with you all this morning

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and with Zeyneb, who
I have known now for,

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I don't know, 10 years
or something like that,

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through Mothers Out Front.

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So I want to talk to you
today about something that's

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maybe a little bit
different from what

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others will be talking to
you about over the course

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of the day.

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And that is power,
not the kind of power

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that you spend a lot of
the day talking about

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and we'll be talking more
about this afternoon,

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but people power.

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And I want to encourage you
to think about climate change

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as ultimately a problem
of political power.

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So when we take a
step back and we

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think about why it is that after
decades and decades of science

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and consensus in the
scientific community,

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that we are indeed
heating the Earth

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with catastrophic implications
for life on this planet

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as we know it.

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We have to think about what
it that is preventing us

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from making more progress.

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And we need to think
about the powers

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on the left-hand side of
the scale, which represent

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the fossil fuel industry,
the petrochemical

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industry, the banks and
investors that make money

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from the industry,
the politicians that

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are being heavily
influenced by the industry.

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I think the oil and gas industry
spent $230 million or so

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getting Trump elected,
probably more than that.

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And then, of course,
just status quo.

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People are resistant
to change in general,

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and we have an entire
economy based on,

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that's built on fossil fuels.

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So the question is, what
do we do about that?

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And what we do at
Mothers Out Front is

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we talk about
building power, and we

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engage in the process
of building power.

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So ultimately, the
question is, how do we

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drive transformational
change of the level

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that we need in order to shift
the scale so we can actually

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win campaigns and create
the conditions for network

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geothermal and other important
technologies to come in,

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et cetera, et cetera, and to
do so in an equitable manner.

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So as it turns out,
transformational change

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throughout American history
and around the world

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has really largely been possible
because of social movements.

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So it's large, large numbers
of people coming together

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out of a sense of shared
values and a sense of outrage

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at the disconnect between
the world people want

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and the world as it is,
and people coming together,

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learning how to organize
together and drive campaigns

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for change.

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So that has been the
case, whether it's

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the Civil Rights
Movement, women's rights,

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abolitionism before
that, LGBTQ rights,

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the early
environmental movement.

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And we're seeing bits of
it, and not enough of it

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yet, with what you
see of the climate

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movement across the country.

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So how does this relate
to Mothers Out Front?

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I'll tell you a little
bit about my story, which

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is I am the mother
of two daughters.

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And when they were
quite young, I

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had one of those moments
of absolute despair

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looking at the climate
crisis through the lens

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for the first time
of being a mom

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and thinking about
the kind of world

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that my children would be
growing up in, and thinking,

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well, I can't not try to do
something about this, but--

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I don't know if I can go back.

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Yeah, but I was the little
person on the right-hand side

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of the scale.

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I was one person, a mom,
not a scientist, not

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an elected official,
not a policy expert,

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wondering what
could I possibly do

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to affect this enormous,
overwhelming set of challenges?

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And around that time,
I had the opportunity

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to meet a man by the name
of Marshall Ganz, who

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teaches Organizing at the
Harvard Kennedy School.

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And I called him up, and I said,
will you please meet with me?

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And he graciously said yes.

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He had no idea who I was.

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And in about half an
hour of meeting Marshall,

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he explained to me the power
of social movement building,

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its role in American
history, and importantly,

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that organizing to
build social movements

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is a practice that
anybody can learn.

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Any one of you can
become an organizer.

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And so I teamed up
with a couple of moms

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and we started getting
together with other moms.

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We had one-on-one meetings.

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We invited them
to house parties.

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And we started
forming teams of moms

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and providing a
structure that allowed

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them to come together,
think about what

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they wanted to work
on together and start

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implementing campaigns.

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So we were starting to build the
right-hand side of the scale.

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And Zeyneb and Anya,
who was supposed

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to be moderating the
session and, unfortunately,

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had to leave, were
both integral parts

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of the early days of Mothers Out
Front, as was Nathan Phillips.

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So we started organizing
about 12 years ago,

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and our downtown Boston team,
led by Anya, among others,

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was trying to figure out
what it is that they wanted

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to work on for their campaign.

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And lo and behold,
this article comes out

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in The Boston
Globe about a study

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that Nathan Phillips
was involved in,

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indicating the role of
gas leaks in killing trees

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and highlighting the
number of gas leaks

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all across the Boston area.

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And it was shocking.

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And that is when our downtown
Boston team of moms said,

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aha, this is what
we want to work on.

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It's a concrete thing.

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It's killing trees up and down
the blocks in our neighborhood.

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We want to take this on.

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And amazingly, this
little organization

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called HEET had created maps.

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They had taken the data--

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publicly available information,
input it into spreadsheets,

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and created maps of
different neighborhoods

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across Boston showing just
how many leaks there were.

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This is a perfect
organizing tool

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because it allowed us
at Mothers Out Front

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to take something that
was invisible to everybody

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and make it visible.

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And so what happened next was
that Anya and others took it

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upon themselves to go out and
reach out to other Mothers

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Out Front teams that we had
formed across the state by then.

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And they, all 16 of
our teams got involved.

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And Anya and others
made presentations

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saying you need to
know about gas leaks.

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This is why they're bad.

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Yes, they're killing trees.

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They're also bad for our health.

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And they're major drivers
of climate change.

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And that was the process
of engaging the other teams

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that we had done
the work of creating

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all across the state
of Massachusetts

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in this fight against
the gas leaks.

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So this was a very cold
January day, when a bunch of us

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got together under
Anya's direction.

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And equipped with the maps
of where the gas leaks were,

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we fanned out across Boston.

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And we tagged, physically tagged
every gas leak in the city.

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And this exercise of
physically tagging gas leaks

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was repeated in communities
across the Boston area,

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thereby, again, making
the invisible visible.

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And people, for the first time,
were making this connection

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between gas leaks killing
my trees that I sort of know

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about because I smell
them when I walk around

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and where they're located
and what we can actually

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do about it.

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So we called attention
on all the tags

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to the responsible company.

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And all the gas
companies started getting

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harassed by lots of
people very upset

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that there were these gas
leaks all over the place.

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So the people in orange,
in case you're wondering,

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they're supposed to be
gas leaks themselves.

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So anyway, we had a
little fun with it too.

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So there we are
tagging gas leaks.

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And in the process, while we
were also tagging gas leaks,

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it was part of a
broader campaign.

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It wasn't just about
tagging gas leaks.

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It was a whole strategy.

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So we met with elected officials
in various towns and cities

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across the state.

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We rallied right in
front of the state house.

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We rallied in front
of-- what's that?

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That's I think the
Cambridge state house.

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We spoke up and we testified.

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We testified at city meetings
in the city of Boston.

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You can see Zeyneb there.

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That's Anya on the far left,
who was supposed to be here.

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Nathan Phillips joined us for
a lot of these activities.

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And we collaborated.

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We teamed up with--

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we never work alone because
you cannot achieve your goals

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as a relatively
small organization.

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So we knew we needed allies.

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Of course, we had
HEET working with us

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because we used their maps.

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You can see Nathan
Phillips down here.

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And we created-- we
brought in as many allies

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as we possibly could,
and in the process

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even created a whole new
organization that then was

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called The Gas Leaks Allies and
is now called The Gas Transition

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Allies.

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And that is a group
of organizations

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that continues to meet
on a regular basis

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to talk about how we drive
important policy forward

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in the state.

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We also sought out
unlikely partners,

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and this is where
Geothermal Networks come in.

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So Zeyneb was part of-- and
the arrow is pointing to--

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what was her name, Mary?

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ZEYNEB MAGAVI: Marcy.

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KELSEY WIRTH: Marcy
Reed-- thank you--

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who was then the president of
National Grid in Massachusetts

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And this is actually
a funny story.

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So Marcy was refusing
to meet with us,

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and we all were tweeting
with her the day

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that we were tagging gas leaks
across the city of Boston.

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And by the end of the day,
she's like, OK, OK, OK.

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I'll meet with you.

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So it was very effective.

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But when we went in to meet
with the CEO of Eversource,

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it was Zeyneb and a few
others from Mothers Out Front

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and I think Audrey from HEET.

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And they went in,
and they sat down

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with Bill Ackley, who was
asked before the meeting

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if he thought he needed
security because they were

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so accustomed to the company
coming under pressure

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from advocacy groups.

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And he said, no, I don't
think I need security.

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It's a group of moms.

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And he sat down with
a group of moms.

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And Zeyneb and the
others in the room

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started by talking about
why they were there,

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which was for their children.

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And Zeyneb said, I
have three children.

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These are their ages.

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This is why I'm here.

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I'm worried for their future.

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And Ackley paused, and
he said, oh, well, I

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have three children too.

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And they formed this connection
around their shared concern

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about their children.

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He said, of course I'm
concerned for my children too.

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And it created an opening and an
opportunity for collaboration.

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And that was the
beginning of the reason

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why you're all here today to
learn about geothermal networks.

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So I think the
lesson in all of this

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is that building
power is absolutely

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essential for creating
the conditions we need

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for the level of
transformational change

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we need to create the
future that we all

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want for our children
and our grandchildren

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and future generations.

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And I think every time you
think about the climate crisis,

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I would encourage
you to always think

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about where does building
power fit into my thinking

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here because it's a
critically important piece,

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and we all have to
be thinking about it

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and hopefully be part
of building that power

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and implementing that power.

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So thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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