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Every year, NYC’s dirtiest power plants poison our air, pollute our planet, and sicken our communities It’s time to free our lungs ⛓️‍💥🫁 & protect our future 🌎 On 9/15, help us tell Governor Kathy Hochul: Stop Blowing Smoke! #BuildPublicRenewables! bit.ly/STOPBLOWINGSMO…

"We are the people's university. And we have public power here, you know, we get our power from NY Power Authority. But we need to push NYPA to forge forward, and that's what this meeting is about...."

"And I think we here [The City University of New York] are incredibly fortunate to be at the forefront of that, really at the center of that struggle in this country" - Ashley Dawson distinguished professor The Graduate Center & College of Staten Island #DecarbonizeCUNY Public Power NY

A corn field has essentially zero pollinating insects A solar field with native plants between the rows has about 300x as many newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

Excited for this on Thursday! With the wonderful Progressive International feat. Brilliant guests like Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Isabella M. Weber, Adam Tooze, & more… join if you’re in NY!

How does the climate justice movement use art in its struggle to abolish fossil fuels? This Friday evening I'll be in dialogue with the great activist artist Oliver Ressler The Graduate Center Center for the Humanities at GC CUNY archive.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/…

This afternoon, join me at LaGuardia Community College in Western Queens for a Public Power NY town hall. Decarbonize CUNY!

Join me this Friday Follow us @Shop6pm! for a discussion with artist-activist Oliver Ressler about the role of creative work in the struggle for climate justice The Graduate Center Center for the Humanities at GC CUNY archive.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery/…

📢Unions declare: “Feminist Public Pathway Now!” A majority of 'gender inclusivity' discussions are stuck in a market-based approach to decarbonisation. Unions are developing a #PublicPathway alternative as a feminist approach to a #JustTransition 📰tinyurl.com/TUED-B151

Cool new resource from World BEYOND War to visualize overseas military bases- not just of the US, but of all overseas bases (mostly US allies)- and get visuals of the bases, along with the environmental and social problems associated with them. worldbeyondwar.org/military-empir…

“Economic liberation will not be granted. It must be seized.” Last night, the Progressive International kicked off the UN General Assembly with a presentation of its Program of Action on the Construction of a New International Economic Order — going live on 22 September 2024. Stay tuned.

I love CitiBike, but costs of e-bike rides have skyrocketed to up to $10 per ride. I’m introducing a bill to cap e-bike rides at the cost of a subway fare. Bike share is an essential part of transit in NYC. It needs to be affordable & accessible for all. buff.ly/3MLba9S

Tonight! 6pm. CUNY Grad Center

TOMORROW ⚡️ Tear down the smokestacks! #BuildPublicRenewables! Join the fight to shut down NYC’s dirtiest power plants and build a #GreenNewYork ✊ ⬇️

How we feel about polluting peaker plants 😤

IPK is hosting a panel discussion on the fifth anniversary of the Green New Deal on Monday, September 30 (5:30 PM), featuring Zohran Kwame Mamdani, Liza Featherstone, Ashley Dawson, and Alyssa Battistoni. RSVP: ipk.nyu.edu/events/panel-d…

Carbon markets are not climate finance. They allow polluters to keep polluting while claiming 'offsets' somewhere else. We need real action on climate change. #NoCarbonMarkets #NoOffsets #ClimateJusticeNow #NoArticle6

With the newly introduced Homes Act, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pushing legislation to create the next generation of decommodified, dignified homes, including public housing and co-ops. jacobin.com/2024/09/homes-…

Around the state elected officials like Sarahana Shrestha, environmental justice organizers, labor unions, and everyday New Yorkers are demanding that NY Power Authority step up and rescue our climate goals by building 15 GW of public renewable energy by 2030!

Fossil gas plants are booming in the US. Again. In the year 2024. For AI data centers. Energy addition, not transition. “In the first six months of the year alone, companies have announced plans to build more new gas power capacity across the US than they did in all of 2020”