Zoom panel on "How police and vigilantes operate..."

Friday, Dec 4 from 7 to 8:15 pm ET 

Zoom panel on "How police and vigilantes operate

to attack and undermine minority groups and progressive movements in the U.S. and Palestine.”

Speakers will explore how we can support local and national movements in overcoming racism and political repression to achieve basic human rights for all. The panel will include a Kingston, NY BLM activist (Anne Ames), the editor of mondoweiss.net (Philip Weiss), and a radical feminist, revolutionary member of Black Alliance for Peace (Asantewaa Nkrumah-Ture). 

To register in advance for

this Zoom meeting go to: 

https://mideastcrisis.org

"Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Borders Around the World."

Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Todd Miller, independent journalist and writer whose articles have appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, In These Times and Al Jazeera, talks about his most recent book, "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Borders Around the World.

http://www.toddmillerwriter.com/empire-of-borders/

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

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Thanks to Robert Connors

 Last week we generated 163 calls about the PSC gas proceeding. Great work! (Feel free to forward)

Sample Email for this week’s call-in effort is below! (written by Laura Shindell F&WW & F&WA)

 

This week we will be focusing our efforts again on calling on Governor Cuomo to stop the proposed Danskammer fracked gas power plant in Newburgh, NY.  This plant if approved, would lock the region into 20-30 years more of fossil fuel dependency and put our climate and regional health at risk! 

 

It has been a few months since our last Danskammer focused Call Cuomo Monday & a lot has happened.  Most significantly, because of the tremendous effort of activists, the application has again been delayed!  The Public Service Commission wants particular clarity from Danskammer on how this proposal will comply with the efficiency standards set by the CLCPA.  So far, this bodes well for our campaign, but the fight is not over yet.  Ultimately this decision could set a huge precedent for future fracked gas infrastructure fights in the future.  That is why we are so fortunate to be part of this statewide network of fracktivists, all of our fights are so interconnected!

 

Much of our current momentum can be credited to the immense organizing pressure and input the state has received from the thousands of individual community members who have spoken out.  

Thanks for sharing this week's Call Cuomo Monday with your networks & lending your voice to our local fight here in the Hudson Valley!  If you'd like to learn more about this particular campaign, visit stoptheplant.org where you will find beautiful graphics and educational materials.

 

Sample email:

Call Cuomo Monday: Stop the Proposed Danskammer fracked gas power plant expansion in Newburgh, NY

877-235-6537

Attendees Needed at Fishkill Town Board Meeting - Oct. 21, 2020 at 7PM to Oppose Danskammer

Subject: Attendees Needed at Fishkill Town Board Meeting - Oct. 21, 2020 at 7PM to Oppose Danskammer Dear Allies,   We are reaching out to those who might be Fishkill residents and also other like-minded people to attend the Fishkill Town Board Meeting this coming Wed., Oct. 21  (yes, it is an in person meeting) at the Fishkill Town Hall at 7PM. Masks required.  Here is the Facebook event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1054641914957262/ Danskammer representatives will present their recommendation for the plant and Hayley Carlock, Esq. of Scenic Hudson will oppose Danskammer in her presentation.  She needs our support by your presence there. We need people to come out and speak in the public comment section called Privilege of the Floor at the beginning of the meeting and show support of a Resolution to be issued by the Town Board of Fishkill OPPOSING the Danskammer proposed project. Those who are not residents of the town are also encouraged to come, have a sign, and perhaps speak too, in order to show the board the large support for opposition.  PLEASE consider doing this. We NEED your help and participation.  If you can’t attend, please write (sample letter below) or send emails to the Fishkill Town Board quickly and easily via the Food and Water Watch website.  Takes 2 minutes! Food & Water Watch: Say No to Danskammer Here is a video with facts/background about Danskammer:  Here is an example letter, but please personalize your communication to the Fishkill Town Board in your own words, even if it is two sentences. Send it via email to Town Supervisor Ozzy Albra:     https://www.fishkill-ny.gov/elected-officials.html Thank you for any action you can take to help further a Resolution against the Danskammer project issued by the Town of Fishkill. It is a matter of health and your future as a resident of the Hudson Valley.  Sincerely, Mothers Out Front Dutchess County

Danskammer Plant Proposal - PLEASE READ & BECOME AWARE

Friends, 

I have been working with various groups, Scenic Hudson, Mothers Out Front, Dutchess Progressive Action Alliance, 

Climate Reality and concerned local citizens about getting local municipalities to issue Resolutions to Governor Cuomo and  to publicize the growing opposition to this project. It is of vital significance to our health and general way of life in the Hudson Valley that this proposal to re-build this fracked gas-fired power plant, currently a “peaker plant” (operating only at peak demand times during the year), exits in the Town of Newburgh and juts out into the Hudson River. It was built in the 1950’s and then had to be repaired when seriously flooded by Super Storm Sandy in 2012. It is inefficient and a toxic polluter at present. 

Danskammer made a proposal made to the New York State Siting Board in Dec. 2019 to re-build the plant and have it operate at 70-100% of the time. This is a gross mistake and counter productive to The Climate and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) adopted in July 2019. 

Twenty-five local municipalities from various counties in the Hudson Valley have issued Resolutions coming out against this proposal. I am currently working with many advocates to encourage the Town of Fishkill to do the same. 

The Town of Wappingers must also be made more aware of this project and its negative impact to all life in this region. 

In Danskammer’s pro-material they site a need for additional power. This has been issued to be false by the findings of the NYISO (New York Independent System Operator) in their 2018 assessment. Danskammer only reports a previous 2016 report saying there is a need. There is none. The added jobs, for construction, are short-lived and overall permanent jobs only total about thirty. Here is an article just out today  from USA TODAY NETWORK summarizing the issue:  https://www.lohud.com/story/opinion/2020/10/14/danskammer-ny-leaving-dirty-energy-behind/3640022001/

Please take the time to visit www.StopthePlant.org to see supporting materials on how harmful an additional 70% operating fracked gas-fired power plant would be. Health analysis and  toxic pollutants that would be emitted in gross amounts is layed out plainly there. Asmatha rates would increase dramatically along with suseptbility to exposure to Covid-19. Symptoms such as headaches, rashes, fatigue, and the list goes on and on, would surface due to the environmental impact of additional toxins to the environment. 

If you don’t know about this project proposal I urge you to at least see www.StopthePlant.org so you can be aware and educated and hopefully motivated to join the movement to defeat this proposal. The NYS Siting Board, appointed by Governor Cuomo, has the final ruling on acceptance or denial. You can see their mission, list of current proposals being considered (7 out of 8 are solar and/or wind power projects!) and Danskammer stands out as the only fracked gas-fired proposal they are considering. The process is long (about 2 years) and currently the Siting Board has not given the nod to Danskammer that the proposal is complete. Danskammer must provide more supporting data but once that is done, then the Board begins their review process. That could take another year. 

However, public reaction and input to the Board and the growing sentiment of the population that would be effected by this re-build can only make the Board aware of the lack of need and public opposition to this project. 

We don’t need another fracked gas-fired power plant that would only create more fracking and leakage harm to those who live need fracking and commission sites mainly in Pennsylvania. And the toxins emitted by an operating gas-fired plant, no matter what Danskammer says about using a “clean energy” source, perhaps hydrogen in the future, is counter to all renewable goals of NY State and going in the wrong direction for our and the planet’s future. 

Please see STOPTHEPLANT.org and become aware and involved. 

Thanks for your attention and activitism. 

N. Sorvino

Save the Green Party in New York State

I’m not going to sugar-coat it. We have less than three weeks to save the Green Party in New York State. Gov. Cuomo and the Democrats changed the law this year so that if we don’t get at least 150,000 votes, the Green Party will disappear from the ballot. That means your vote for Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker is necessary to save your Green Party’s ballot line! Joe Biden is up by 32 points in New York and is going to win the Electoral College vote. But your vote will matter this November when you vote Green to keep the party alive! You know that Howie Hawkins and the Green Party were the first to run on a platform of an Eco-Socialist Green New Deal, and that Howie’s success running for Governor helped ban fracking in New York. The Green Party has long championed the things that Trump and Biden run away from: Medicare-for-All, public living-wage jobs under a Green New Deal, legalization of marijuana, electoral reform, and an end to the imperial wars abroad. Saving the Green Party means saving the ballot line so we can run amazing candidates at the local, state, and federal levels. Vote to change this broken system.  Vote for candidates you can be proud of: Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker, and tell a friend to do the same! PS. Can you chip-in to our ballot-line defense fund? We need your help today to save the Green Party of New York! Green Party of New York http://www.gpny.org/

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Mike Monetta, National Director of Wolf-PAC

 Activist Radio has the following guest on this week:

GUEST: Mike Monetta, National Director of Wolf-PAC, an organization dedicated to working across the states to end corruption at the federal level and in Congress, talks about ways to end the wholesale buying of politicians by the major corporations.

https://wolf-pac.com

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