ALL HANDS ON DECK for DEC public hearings TOMORROW, JULY 20

From our friends at Stop the Algonquin Pipeline: Dear Friends, We need ALL HANDS ON DECK NOW to tell the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to strengthen their proposed oil and gas air emissions regulations for fossil fuel infrastructure in New York...

FIRST-EVER ANALYSIS SHOWS BANKS DRAINED $1.6 BILLION IN FEES FROM NEW YORKERS’ ACCOUNTS DURING PANDEMIC

GROUPS URGE ALBANY TO PASS “NY PUBLIC BANKING ACT” THIS SESSION

Westchester, NY – Today, racial and economic justice groups from the NYS Community Equity Agenda coalition released a new analysis estimating that banks have exacted more than $1.6 billion in fees from New Yorkers since New York declared a state of emergency last March, and nearly $50 million in Westchester County. They stressed that banks’ overdraft fees, in particular, target low-income and Black and brown New Yorkers and push people out of mainstream banking. Banks exacted $1 billion in overdraft fees alone statewide since the start of the pandemic, according to the groups’ analysis.

Call Our Electeds to Demand an End to the Killing!

1.  We need to ask our congressional representatives and New York Senators to urgently make a public statement urging the State Department and the Biden Administration to pressure the Israeli government to stop the bombing of Gaza and end the removal of families from...

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