Dear friends,
Yesterday, I had the privilege of standing against the North Brooklyn Pipeline and LNG vaporizers behind one of Ken Schles’s giant portraits at Union Square.
Tell Governor Hochul and the DEC: Don’t Vaporize Brooklyn! This ready-made 15-second (!) action is from NoNBKPipeline.
As members of the public, we can shape the proposed scoping plan from New York State’s Climate Action Plan. NY Renews has created another new comment on land use and local government. The comment calls for community members to be involved in identifying the needs for pollution prevention, green infrastructure, open spaces, and other environmental improvements.
Submit a comment calling for a plan for diverse representation on Regional Economic Development Councils to make environmental improvements. This 15-second (!) action is from NY Renews.
Did you miss the previous comment, on agriculture and forestry? It’s not too late!
Call on NYS to create more farms, gardens, forests, urban greenery, and state parks for the good of public health. The ready-made comment is from NY Renews.
In 2013, City Hall heralded it as an innovation that would improve local air quality, reduce organic material sent to landfills and provide clean energy to gas customers, thereby reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
The waste-to-energy project, which involves purifying the biogas, is more than five years overdue, and the methane is still being burned off.
Call on city officials to get National Grid to keep their “clean energy promise.” This action is ready-made.
There’s still time to sign up for a trip to Albany for tomorrow’s day of action. The Climate Can’t Wait. The legislative session ends in June and there’s work to do.
Sign up for a seat on the bus!
We have not given up the fight for Fair Pay for Home Care. Care jobs are the greenest jobs. We will do our best to elect better state executives AND we can’t forget to thank our friends.
Send emails with this useful tool from NY Caring Majority to thank the legislators who supported the Fair Pay bill and included it in their budget.
According to a review of national data, police in the US have killed almost 600 people in traffic stops in the last five years. A group called Mapping Police Violence compiled the data.
The numbers add urgency to the growing push from advocates to prevent deadly stops and remove officers from traffic enforcement following the police killing of Patrick Lyoya, a Black Michigan man, earlier this month.
Join the Vera Institute of Justice to demand that police chiefs and prosecutors eliminate traffic stops for minor violations. This is a 15-second action.
A month ago, our mayor blamed lax traffic enforcement on the spike in violent crime.
On April 7, a police officer driving an NYPD van collided with Ronald Anthony Smith, who was killed while standing on a traffic median. The officer is now on “modified duty” while the case is investigated by Internal Affairs. Even if the driver had not run a red light at high speed, as has been alleged, it’s hard to find a reasonable explanation for the death of a pedestrian who was not on the roadway.
Contact the mayor and the council’s Public Safety Committee head to demand police accountability, effective traffic enforcement, and investments in street infrastructure. These actions are ready-made, updated, and will take only a minute.
I periodically rail against meaningless holidays, and while I am deeply connected to my identity as a mama, I’ve always found Mother’s Day to be particularly obnoxious. Moms Rising, one of my new favorite organizations, is planning a meaningful action in honor of the people who raise and care for children in this society.
Join the MOMibuster to call on Congress to build the care infrastructure our nation’s families, businesses and economy need to function!
Sign this ready-made 15-second (!) action from Moms Rising to call on Congress to extend the Child Care Tax Credit.
There’s lots of Earth Day action every day.
Join Saturday’s March for Science in NYC to call for equitable climate action! Find events in other places (and on other days) here.
I’m taking tomorrow off to see my own mama. Have a great weekend!
with love,
L