Dear friends,
“When hurricanes hit, we leave our homes and families behind and are asked to shelter in place with our clients. Home care workers are often the first responders in a climate emergency, and yet, we rarely get the recognition or resources we deserve for our labor and efforts. As we experienced this past year with COVID, it is care workers who hold up the economy in a crisis.”
Join Caring Majority’s call in day today to demand fair pay for home care. A script is provided.
If you can meet me at Brooklyn Borough Hall at 3:45 today, you can join a rapid response team to bring Governor Hochul on board for Fair Pay AND you can rally with Planned Parenthood to defend reproductive rights.
There’s a push in Congress to secure reproductive rights by passing the Women's Health Protection Act (WHPA). The bill is designed to expand federal protections, effectively guaranteeing a pregnant person's right to access abortion — and the right of an abortion provider to deliver these abortion services — free from medically unnecessary restrictions.
Write your legislators to let them know that you support the Health Protection Act. This is a ready-made action.
One of my various duties when I was a full-time teacher was to remind my colleagues to post assignments in a weekly document that every academic coach (all of us were also in this role) could refer to when students believed they didn’t have anything they should be working on.
It occurred to me this morning that I used to send out the reminder on Thursdays and that I am replicating that pattern here! We’ve got unfinished assignments and I’m reminding you — so that we can remind elected officials — about some work that may have been neglected.
There are some frontline communities in northern Minnesota that he has forgotten; work on the Line 3 tar sands pipeline is nearing completion. Building fossil fuel infrastructure in violation of Anishinaabe treaty rights is never going to be okay.
Call the president and tell him to stop Line 3!
Some extremely sobering new research, published in Nature, analyzed a complex model of global energy use and determined that we have to keep 90% of coal and 60% of oil and gas reserves in the ground if we are to have coin-toss odds of preventing warming above 1.5C.
The study highlighted — among other things — the need to keep 83 percent of Canada’s oil, including its tar sands in the ground. We’re talking about Line 3.
We have just four more days to comment on the Astoria power plant. There are lots of political leaders speaking out against the permits for the plant; it’s important to add our voices.
“Given the severity of the climate crisis, no new fossil fuel plants should be getting built, period,” state Senate Deputy Majority Leader Mike Giannaris (D-Astoria) said in his statement. “I urge DEC to reject these permit applications and stop this destructive plant from being built. I will continue working with my community to fight against this ill-conceived project until it is finally dead.”
Tell Governor Hochul and the DEC: the Astoria NRG fracked gas power does not align with our climate goals or serve our needs! Here’s a ready-made message. There’s a new comment if you’ve sent the other three!
NYS legislators have proposed a moratorium on energy-intensive crypto-currencies. This is critically important legislation that will enable the state to meet emissions reduction targets. The Senate bill passed in June and we need to convince the Assembly to get the bill passed.
Producing one bitcoin requires
9 year’s worth [of household electricity]. (Put in terms of a typical home electricity bill: about $12,500.) Value of one Bitcoin today: about $50,000.
Legislators may not be in Albany right now, but we can fill their inboxes so that their agenda is clear when they are back in session. Staffers read and count our emails.
Contact your representative to get their support for a crypto-mining moratorium. Here’s a ready-made message.
Last week, workers were occupying land along the railroad tracks, and unionized rail workers refused to make a delivery, honoring the picket.
Portland police officers told strikers they had to vacate their post alongside the railroad tracks within two hours.
That’s because, strikers say, Mondelez hired a land survey company to confirm that the small grassy patch of land the strikers occupied was company property.
Mondelez International saw climbing sales and net income exceeding $1 billion in the last quarter. The company is threatening legal action against the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union.
Sign the petition calling on Mondelez International to meet the demands of Nabisco’s workers.
with love,
L