GUEST: Ed Haffmans, local peace and environmental activist

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Ed Haffmans, local peace and environmental activist who has spent decades living well without fossil fuels, talks about the growing consensus for renewable energy, and Michael Moore's new documentary, "Planet of the Humans."      https://oracle.newpaltz.edu/op-ed-by-ed-haffmans/

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Thanks,

Fred

Activist Radio

https://www.classwars.org

Help stop a new fracked gas power plant facility

Help stop a new fracked gas power plant facility:

"It’s Call Cuomo Monday again! We generated 211 calls last week about turning down National Grid’s fossil fuel scheme in favor of a “no infrastructure” option.

This week we’re highlighting the Gowanus fracked gas power plant proposal. Thank you to New York Communities for Change and their Sunset Park chapter for their work on this. 

Please share and call! 

And if you live in NYC, please come to the action outside the power plant this Wednesday, July 29^th! "(from Laura@F&WW & F&WA)

Call Cuomo Monday:
Stop the Gowanus Power Plant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn

877-235-6537

We need your help

Good news: the NYS State Legislature is convening the week of July 20 – providing the opportunity to nudge the fracking waste bill over the finish line. But we need your help calling for bringing the bill to a vote. In April, over 120 organizations sent a letter to the legislature urging passage of the bill, which would eliminate a loophole exempting oil and gas waste from being regulated as hazardous waste.

The legislation, S.. 3392 / A. 2655, was introduced in the Senate by Rachel May and in the Assembly by Steve Englebright.

Despite our ban on fracking, New York still accepts fracking waste from Pennsylvania, which is dumped into landfills, and oil and gas waste has even been used for de-icing or dust suppression on roads. This waste can be highly toxic and radioactive, containing cancer-causing chemicals such as benzene, toluene, and formaldehyde, along with heavy metals and radioactive materials. Read the horrifying details ( America's Radioactive Secret ).

We’re requesting you send a letter in support of the bill to legislative staff – cc’ing both me and our lobbyist, Stacie Orell (sorell@malkinross.com).

ASSEMBLY

• Steve Liss (Assembly Member Englebright's legislative counsel): lisss@nyassembly.gov
• Maria Hoffman (Assembly Member Englebright's chief of staff): hoffmanm@nyassembly.gov
• Michelle Milot (program analyst for the Environmental Conservation Committee): milotm@nyassembly.gov

SENATE

• Kristin Williams (Senator May's chief of staff): kmwillia@nysenate.gov
• Lonnie Threatte (assistant deputy director of counsel program): threatte@nysenate.gov

Please let me or my colleague Alex Beauchamp (abeauchamp@fwwatch.org) know if you have any questions or need more information.

Thank you.

-- Eric
Eric Weltman
Senior Organizer

Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action

Steve Greenfield For Congress

Greenfield Responds To Delgado’s Washington Post Op-Ed, And His Statement Denouncing Trump’s Use Of Force

Let me open by sharing, as I have in the past, my heartfelt sympathy to Congressman Delgado for the racist attacks he has endured, and will endure, and for the inequality that leaves large portions of our population, which includes me, with opportunities, access, and security that we did not earn. I do as much as I can individually, and through organizations, and civil disobedience, to expend my privilege in anti-racist efforts, always seeking to do better, and more. As a Jew, while I, too, have borne the brunt of bigotry throughout my life, it does not compare in scale or scope, although it does leave me with elevated empathy towards others, and with cultural DNA incorporating the acute awareness of the evil of white supremacy, and a mission to fight it, as befits our tragic history.

Read more at:

https://stevegreenfieldforcongress.com/nobody-cares/

GUEST: Kwame Holmes, PhD, Scholar in Residence, Human Rights Program, Bard College

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Kwame Holmes, PhD, Scholar in Residence, Human Rights Program, Bard College

Activist Radio is broadcast: Thursdays 5-6 pm from WVKR 91.3 FM at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY; Sundays 4-5 pm from WIOF 104.1 FM in Woodstock, NY; and Sundays 5-6 pm from the Progressive Radio Network at PRN.FM. It will also be posted on the ClassWars website for the next ten weeks. Simply click on the date to hear it.

Thanks,

Fred
Activist Radio
https://www.classwars.org

https://www.chronogram.com/author/kwame-holmes

Call Cuomo Monday: Stop National Grid’s North Brooklyn Pipeline

Activism works- the fossil fuel industry is wobbling, but still powerful- please share this updated email from Laura Shindell:

Call Cuomo Monday: Stop National Grid’s North Brooklyn Pipeline

877-235-6537

Call Cuomo Monday is back, and with a fierceness! As the COVID crisis escalated this spring, so did the volume of calls attempting to reach the Governor’s office. 
But now that NY has flattened the curve, Cuomo’s constituent services are accessible again-- and just in time because it’s critical we urge him to stop National Grid’s North Brooklyn Pipeline. 

In May, New Yorkers scored an enormous victory and defeated the Williams NESE pipeline that had been proposed for NY Harbor. Now, corporate utility National Grid is proposing a “backup plan” to the rejected Williams NESE pipeline, and their plan B is riddled with dirty fossil fuels. Part of their plan includes hastening construction of the Metropolitan Reliability Project, locals dubbed it the North Brooklyn Pipeline. 

The North Brooklyn fracked gas Pipeline is currently under construction in Brownsville and Bushwick, and is destined for Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It is being built through black and brown communities that were not consulted about the proposal. It’s dirty, dangerous, and commits New York to higher utility rates and decades of climate destroying fracked gas. 

Call Governor Cuomo at 877-235-6537 and tell him to stop the North Brooklyn Pipeline, and make National Grid opt for a “no infrastructure” energy option instead! 

Pipeline news from our friends at Sane Energy Project:

Dear Sane Energy Family, In the past 24 hours, we got the best one-two punch: Both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) were stopped. This is a major victory for our entire nation, and for our collective work toward a sustainable economy built on principles of environmental, racial, and economic justice.  We are still glowing from our defeat of the Williams NESE Pipeline slated for the NYC Harbor in May, and from our allies in Central NY who defeated the DeRuyter Pipeline. We know this is a testament that diverse, persistent, strategic work gets the goods! We are privileged to know and have worked with the countless people that were at the core of stopping these extractive, abusive pipelines.  Click pic for more info. Photo: Appalachian Voices Click pic for more info. Photo: Sacred Stone Camp Now, before you go party tonight, we need YOUR HELP to be a part of the next victory: HALT a massive fracked gas build-out for private profit in Brooklyn, NY. Help us get at least 1,000 comments on the record by filing your comment opposing more fracked gas.