The Newsletter for the Movement for
Economic, Climate, and Racial Justice
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This month, a massive coalition of labor unions and community groups took to the streets of New York City and demanded an end to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s assault on essential services like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Chuck Schumer’s capitulation to the GOP was no help either, possibly fast tracking the decimation of crucial federal agencies and public services. If Democratic Party leaders have abandoned the working class, then we must strengthen the institutions and organizations that have the spine to fight for ordinary New Yorkers. And with those organizations, ALIGN is ready to build coalitions that cut across issues to build wider, stronger movements. They will try to take away healthcare, our education, and our housing, but no billionaire will be able to stop the renewed vigor we are seeing in the face of a rising oligarchy. Now is the time for troublemaking.
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Protecting our Neighborhoods
from Polluting Warehoueses
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Environmental Justice advocates rally at City Hall for Intro 1130
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For too long, warehouses and their delivery trucks have been polluting our neighborhoods and hurting workers, especially “last mile” warehouses, the final stop in the long delivery process before a package is in your mailbox. This past month, we joined the Environmental Justice advocates at City Hall to push for Intro 1130, championed by Councilmember Alexa Aviles, which will make New York’s warehouse and delivery industry more safe for workers and the environment. Last mile facilities are harmful to the surrounding neighborhood because of increased truck traffic, noise pollution, and emissions. Last mile delivery workers experience among the highest rates of serious injury. And labor standards in these facilities are abysmal, with low wages, poor hours, impossible quotas, inefficient and excessive truck routes, and unregulated subcontracting practices making last mile work unsustainable. We’re calling on the City Council to pass Intro 1130 with the strongest possible enforcement of labor and environmental protections for the last mile warehouses.
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A Step Toward Sustainable Campuses
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Capital Region leaders help UAlbany President Havidán Rodríguez unveil a new $30 million decarbonization project on the uptown campus.(Photo by Patrick Dodson)
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This month, we celebrate the groundbreaking of a new $30 million dollar project in the University of Albany to shift from polluting gas-fired boilers to cleaner heating and cooling systems powered by electric and geothermal energy. This is a major win for clean, sustainable campuses and green union jobs. SUNY institutions account for 40% of all state-owned properties in New York State, so projects like this are a blueprint not only for New York but for the entire country. This project is part of a large push to decarbonize its footprint across the state as New York strives to meet the ambitious goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), a 2019 law that requires an 85 percent reduction in New York’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Brick by brick, campus by campus, we are building a model for a sustainable future.
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Executive Director Theodore Moore joins Good Shepherd NYC for a panel on Black labor
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Faiza Azam speaks at the Preliminary Budget Hearing on Environmental Protection
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Thousands march in NYC to condemn Trump and Musk’s federal cuts to essential services
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