WESPAC August 2024 Solidarity Newsletter
If you missed it in your inbox, here is this month’s newsletter: WESPAC August 2024 Solidarity Newsletter!US Corporations Pump Aquifers Dry as Police Kill Water Defenders
Excellent (and lengthy) article about the devastating environmental and human effect of NAFTA and neoliberal policies on a community in Mexico. Persisting even under AMLO and possibly Sheinbaum… US Corporations Pump Aquifers Dry as Police Kill Water Defenders in...WESPAC June 2024 Solidarity Newsletter
If you missed it over email, check out the June 2024 Solidarity Newsletter!Support University Students and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty!
WESPAC has had the pleasure of working with Sarah Lawrence College students over the last semester period. A couple of these students have created a community fridge in Yonkers for the Sarah Lawrence community. Learn more about it at the below links: Website:...Public Banking Act Support
This legislative session, New York has a historic opportunity to bring public banking to our state! After years of campaigning to pass the New York Public Banking Act we now have a chance to bring public banking to Rochester which would be the first public bank in the...WESPAC on Facebook
Join our Liberation Book Club this Wednesday (10/09) at 7 PM! We meet at the WESPAC Office, 77 Tarrytown Road on the upper level, Suite 2W in White Plains, NY 10607 across the hallway from the State Farm Insurance. Please email Ainsley at [email protected] if you are interested in joining us.
For high school students only! Link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHyp2vgDk8045ol4kk4Gx7YPlpgcbMQRlECKzgkyDAhV4ExA/viewform
Tonight at the WESPAC Office (77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W, White Plains, NY)! Please join us!
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT NOON:![]()
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A coalition of New Yorkers are rallying at the headquarters of the New York Power Authority, 123 MAIN ST, WHITE PLAINS to demand that Hochul build 15 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. More at the link below:![]()
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We're at the edge of climate disaster, & the burden of suffering will fall on the working class around the world. Meanwhile Kathy Hochul is set to roll back NYS carbon targets signed into law in 2019. ![]()
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The Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act of mandated carbon targets for NY State. The 2023 NY Build Public Renewables Act made it possible to bypass for-profit energy companies so that we can meet them. WE ALREADY HAVE THE LEGISLATION WE NEED TO MEET OUR CARBON TARGETS ![]()
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Kathy Hochul insists that private energy companies will take the lead in developing renewable energy production to meet our carbon targets. She also recently admitted that NYS WILL FAIL TO MEET THOSE TARGETS. But she's blocking enactment of the BPRA to protect her energy corp. donors from having to compete with cheap publicly produced renewable energy. Her solution is to roll back the targets.
Rally at NYPA for Public Renewables!
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Five years ago, New York State passed landmark climate legislation that would quickly transition us off of fossil fuels, calling for the state to get 70% of its energy from renewable resources by 2030...