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Newsletter for the Movement for Economic, Climate, and Racial Justice |
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One year after Superstorm Sandy, ALIGN joined the Alliance for a Just Rebuilding for the “Turn the Tide” rally, calling on the City to invest in a just and equitable rebuilding and relief program. Community members from all five boroughs took over City Hall holding wave-shaped signs that read “We Deserve Good Jobs” and “We Demand Affordable and Repaired Housing.” The premise was simple: climate justice is housing justice is economic justice. In order to recover and tackle the climate crisis, we couldn’t just rebuild the way the City used to be – nor could we treat “climate” as a discrete issue – we needed to shift the way our entire economy worked.
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ALIGN can’t do it alone. We need your support to sustain our movement and keep winning in 2024. Can you make a donation to fight for our vision for economic, climate, and racial justice? |
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Take Action |
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Help Defend NYC’s Strongest Climate Law: New York City’s strongest climate law is in danger. A new bill, Intro 772, has been introduced in the City Council which could weaken NYC’s Dirty Buildings Law. Take Action to say #NOto772! |
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New York’s leaders have a chance to make corporate polluters pay what they owe to fund climate justice statewide. Join NY Renews on Oct 28th at 6 pm for our mass call, The Next Chapter: Our Fight for Climate Justice in 2025, to discuss the state’s proposed program |
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Solar Power, Union Power |
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During climate week, Councilmember Sandy Nurse’s public solar bill passed with overwhelming support in the City Council. With over 70% of dirty emissions coming from buildings, this bill will move us toward a green economy, cut dirty emissions, and create green union jobs. The bill requires the City to install solar panels on city-owned buildings like schools, government offices, public housing, and more, by 2035. This is a huge win. Executive Director Theodore Moore spoke on the importance of the bill, “We see this as another tool that we can be using to not only lower emissions, but to continue to be the guiding light for the rest of the nation.” Major NYC unions attended to celebrate, including 32BJ, UFT, NYSNA, Local 79, and PSC-CUNY. Now that the goals have been set to build solar panels with this bill, we’ll need to keep fighting Green, Healthy Schools and the investments to make it happen. |
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Joy, Power, and Love at theMovement Builders Awards |
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Photo credit: Sean DiSerio |
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Big wins require big celebrations. Every year, we gather movement partners across labor, community, and climate for an annual celebration and fundraiser at our ALIGN Movement Builders Awards. Not only do we get to celebrate our own achievements, we also recognize leaders in economic and environmental justice who make New York a national model for progress. This year, we were proud to honor an all-star set of Movement Builders:
With more ambitious work on the horizon — fighting to win green and healthy schools, transforming the solid waste industry, securing safer workplaces, and raising the minimum wage — ALIGN is grateful to have all of our amazing partners at our side. We’ll need all the support that we can get. By making a donation or becoming a monthly sustainer, you can help us win a more just, equitable New York. |
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We Outside! |
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ALIGN rallies with Amazon Teamsters in Maspeth Queens to demand union recognition and a fair contract. |
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Executive Director Theodore Moore moderating a ‘Building Power: Climate Organizing in NYC’ panel at the 2nd annual Climate Justice Forum at MOMA PS1. |
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ALIGN with actor, writer, producer, and activist Kal Penn, who was honored at the Make the Road Gala! |
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Climate Works for All coalition tabling in Jackson Heights, Queens at the Streetworks Climate and Art festival! |
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ALIGN in the News |
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Times Union Op-ed: For warehouse workers, Amazon’s Prime Day isn’t such a great deal
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NY Daily News Op-ed: |
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