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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TRENTON, NJ - Environmental advocates with Climate Fast NJ engaged on a 14 days fast to call on New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to enact a moratorium on pipelines, power plants and all new fossil fuel expansion projects currently proposed in our communities and through our water sources. On November 7, 2018, beginning right after the November 6th election, a water-only fast was held outside the offices of Governor Phil Murphy at New Jersey State House in Trenton; in solidarity with front line communities opposing the dozen new dirty energy proposals in New Jersey. Two of the Fasters, Ted Glick, an advocate for Roseland Against the Compressor Station, and Owl, a member of the Ramapough Lenape Nation, are on the 13th day of a water-only fast. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The air and water pollution from our Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex is killing us,” says Owl, “I’ve seen men dying of black lung from coal mining begging for a breath of clean air and babies suffering in the hospital from bronchiolitis because the air, itself, is killing them. New Jersey has a critical role to play in solving this global problem. Governor Murphy can and must lead on climate by declaring a moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starting with a small circle of advocates seeking to protect clean air and water (see list of 22 endorsing organizations below), now individuals from close to 40 New Jersey towns, New York City, and Philadelphia (see list below), a sister fast in Asheville, NC, and as far away as England and Ireland have joined the Fast. "For the governor to call for a shift to 100% renewable energy and then allow his Department of Environmental Protection to approve key permits for new gas pipelines, new and expanded compressor stations, and new gas-fired power plants is totally inconsistent,” says Ted Glick. ”The first rule when you want to get out of a deep hole is to stop digging. The seriousness of the climate crisis demands that we do just that right now."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Climate Fasters have been outside the Governor’s office in Trenton, NJ every work day since November 7th and plan on being there every work day until the end of the Fast at noon on November 21st. Noontime gatherings at the State House Annex near the Governor’s Office on State Street with singers and theatrical art are planned for Monday 11/19 and Tuesday 11/20. “We are happy to enter into dialogue with the Governor’s office but I have not starved myself for a meeting. I have fasted for the children that cannot breathe and are getting sick and missing school because of the toxic air from fossil fuel pollution, and for the millions of displaced families and children from climate changed fueled droughts and extreme </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">storms,” says Jean-Marie Donohue, Assistant Director of WATERSPIRIT, “Enough is enough, every sane person agrees, including the Director of Princeton University Andlinger Center that hosted Governor Murphy for a keynote address on energy and the environment last week saying that we should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure in the State of NJ.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Those taking part in this action, whether for one day or 14 days, whether in Trenton or elsewhere, will be doing so in support of this call for an immediate moratorium. Governor Murphy needs to announce that the state of New Jersey will give leadership to the nation by declaring a moratorium on all new fossil fuel infrastructure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The world, our country and New Jersey are in a climate crisis. As this month’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasizes, the extreme weather and destructive climate events now unfolding and those already baked into the years ahead are a direct result of the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Climate Fast will end at noon on November 21st with the breaking of bread at the State House Annex. Speakers at the event include Robin Tanner of the Unitarian Summit Baptist Church and Rev. Ronald Tuff of GreenFaith.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Climate Fasters have met representatives of the Governor’s Office and are thankful for expressions of concern over the health of the Fasters. Climate Fasters and supporters will continue a dialogue with government and industry to stop our addiction to fossil fuels and fossil fuel infrastructure harming our children, elderly and ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - New York City was hit by the first snow of the season on November 15, 2018 around noon, bringing a hodge-podge wintry conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The city’s emergency management service advised New Yorkers to be aware of slippery conditions, also issued a travel advisory for Thursday particularly during the evening commute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The city is expected to receive between one to two inches of snow, which will turn into freezing rain as the evening progresses. The rain is only expected to let off sometime Friday afternoon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The National Weather Service has also issued winter weather and coastal flood advisories, and expects that the Bronx will get the most amount of snow in the city.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Queens, NY - Labor groups, community groups, residents and elected officials gathered together on November 14, 2018 at Gordan Triangle in Long Island City, to say NO to the billions of dollars in subsidies for Amazon to locate to NYC. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The richest Company in the world shouldn’t require over $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to come to New York - a city they need more than we need them – robbing state funding for our schools, transit and housing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While our city faces a crisis of affordability and a deteriorating transit system, the last thing we should be doing is giving away billions of dollars of tax payer money to one of the largest corporation in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Senator Michael Gianaris, Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, NY elected officials, The Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), ALIGN NY, Make the Road New York, New York Communities for Change, and other local groups will stand at the proposed site of the new Amazon HQ2 to speak out against the over $1 Billion in taxpayer subsided the richest corporation in the world will be receiving to set up shop in NYC, saying #NoAmazonNYC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“New York deserves better than the deal that was struck to lure Amazon here. Its hard to believe that we are giving as much as $1 billion dollars to one of the wealthiest and largest companies in history. This was an opportunity to create good jobs in a way that benefits the city and workers. We should be demanding that Amazon respects its workforce by allowing them to exercise their right to freely associate. We should be demanding that they give back to the community and not drain public resources. Instead we got played. Amazon can afford to come here without handouts. Its embarrassing to think that such a great city would need to beg them to come. They are coming here because they need to come here - because we offer so much. Tax payers shouldn’t be on the hook to help Amazon be profitable – it’s a massively profitable private business. New York, we can and should do better,” said Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Brooklyn, NY - Today, NYC Council Member Brad Lander, Assembly Member Robert Carroll, disability rights advocates, Park Slope seniors & families, and community members joined to call on the MTA to add the 7th Ave F/G subway station in Park Slope to the list of subway stations to be upgraded with elevators as a part of its Fast Forward plan, a list the MTA is expected to soon release.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The 7th Ave F/G Station is situated just a few blocks from Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and the senior center Park Slope Center for Successful Aging, two populations that especially need accessible transit. The surrounding area contains a large number of families with young children & strollers as well as residents with mobility impairments who struggle to navigate a subway station without an accessible entrance. Currently, there are no stations with elevators between Jay Street MetroTech and Church Ave on the F/G line. The 7th Ave Station falls right in the middle of these stations, which adds to the call for an elevator at this location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to a study completed by The Guardian, only 20% of NYC subway stations are fully accessible. The Fast Forward plan’s Accelerate Accessibility portion calls for 50+ new accessible stations within 5 years, so all subway riders are no more than two stops from an accessible station. The list of stations to be upgraded will soon be released.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“We in Park Slope have been calling for an elevator to be added to the 7th Ave subway station for years, and now that we know that the MTA will soon be releasing their list of stations to be upgraded with elevators, it is more important than ever for our community to be heard,” said Council Member Brad Lander. “The state of accessibility of our subway system is a travesty. I’m glad to see Andy Byford prioritizing accessibility of stations in his Fast Forward plan, but the MTA must include the 7th Ave station in any plans for accessibility upgrades. Right now, patients of Brooklyn Methodist hospital have no accessible subway option. People with disabilities, seniors, and families with young children in Park Slope have no accessible subway option. This has got to change, which is why we urge the MTA to include the 7th Ave station in their plan for accessibility upgrades.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Installing an elevator at the 7th Avenue station on the F line is long overdue,” said Assembly Member Robert Carroll. “An elevator will ensure people with disabilities, seniors, and parents with children have easier access to our subways and better serve the thousands of people who utilize this station on a daily basis. It is unacceptable that the nearest accessible train station is three stops to the South at Church Avenue and the next closest is five stops to the North at Jay Street. While Andy Byford’s Fast Forward plan identifies the need for accessibility, it does not specify where and when stations will be upgraded. 7th Avenue is a critical hub in Brooklyn and deserves to be at the top of list for station accessibility improvements.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"As a wheelchair user working with other people with disabilities, we demand rapid, on-demand transportation to go work, to school, and to participate in social activities, just like what's available to other New Yorkers,” said Monica Bartley, community outreach organizer with Center for the Independence of the Disabled. “In order to make sure that we get what federal laws promise, we need to see a reasonable timeline for subway accessibility that includes a clear plan, enforceable budget, and a line of accountability so that we can be confident that these promises will finally be kept."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“New York City is currently home to nearly 1.5 million people over the age of 60 and nearly 30% of them live in Brooklyn,” said Judy Willig, Executive Director of Heights and Hills. “As Baby Boomers are aging, one in five New Yorkers will be over the age of 60 by 2040. If New York City truly wants to be an “age-friendly” city, we have to more aggressively address those environmental factors that are keeping older people from fully engaging with all that this City has to offer. Transportation accessibility is one of the biggest impediments to the independence of older residents. The Seventh Avenue subway station, in particular, is the access point to NYP Methodist Hospital, to the Park Slope Center for Successful Aging, to Prospect Park and all that it has to offer, and currently all of the steps that one has to climb makes it inaccessible to far too many people.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“The strong neighborhood support for accessibility at 7th Avenue shows not only real need for elevators here, but also how relentlessly frustrating the lack of subway accessibility is in Brooklyn and across the city,” said Colin Wright, advocacy associate at TransitCenter, a national transit research and advocacy foundation. “As New York City Transit chooses which stations to make accessible first under Fast Forward, ones that serve hospitals, schools, busy commercial strips, and even an amazing park are great places to start.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Any opportunity to press for another elevator in the widely inaccessible NYC subway system is a must. The Elevator Action Group is a coalition of concerned New Yorkers and activists moving to push wheelchair accessibility in the subways to the top of the MTA agenda. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">NEW YORK, NY — Thousands of New Yorkers joined a coalition of grassroots organizations in New York City in a massive demonstration on November 8, 2018 in Times Square to denounce new acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker may have a conflict of interest and must not oversee the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related crimes by Trump campaign officials and associates. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Trump’s decision to install a loyalist Attorney General Matthew Whitaker who has openly denigrated the Mueller investigation is a deliberate attempt to obstruct the Special Counsel’s investigation, which has already produced dozens of indictments and convictions in its effort to uncover whether there was coordination between the President and the Russian government during the 2016 election campaign. Trump’s attempt to obstruct the investigation represents a constitutional crisis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New Yorkers will gather at Times Square this evening to demand Congress hold the President accountable and remind President Trump that he is not above the law. The President may have fired the Attorney General, but he can’t fire the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Donald Trump may attempt to install cronies to interfere in the Mueller investigation and subvert the rule of law, but the Constitution is stronger than Donald Trump, democracy is stronger than Donald Trump, and the people are stronger than Donald Trump,” said Andy Ratto, a member of Rise and Resist, and one of the protest organizers. “We will be out in the streets fighting back until we stop him.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Activists gathered in Times Square, continued marching down 7th Avenue and 14th Street to Union Square, where speakers and musicians took stage from 6:45 till 8:00pm.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We demand that the independent investigation continue under the Special Counsel’s office;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We demand that the House Judiciary Committee immediately begin hearings into abuse of power and obstruction of justice by President Trump;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We demand that the Senate create a Watergate-type Select Committee to conduct a broad investigation of the Russia scandals and of Trump’s obstruction of the criminal investigation into these matters. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Somerset, NJ - The NJ Department of Environmental Protection announced their only public hearing so far on the NESE compressor station and gas pipeline proposal on November 5, 2018, giving the community an opportunity to express their concerns on the Raritan Bay pipeline and compressor station proposal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Prior to the hearing, in the cafeteria of Franklin High School a short rally was held with elected officials, impacted residents, and environmental groups to learn about the dangers posed to the health and safety of residents, visitors, wildlife, and the environment from emitted toxic gas, noise, potential fires, and explosion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Community efforts have helped delay the pipeline project by more than a year, and the demands for a public hearing on the pipeline proposal have been finally met. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Williams Transco is proposing to build a 32,000 Horsepower compressor station (gas engine) that could affect the air of South Brunswick, Franklin, and Princeton area residents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - New Yorkers took direct action outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York City office on November 2, 2018 sending a clear message: Be a real climate leader and stop the Williams NESE Pipeline. Dozens of activists rallied before dropping a 25-foot banner across the street, and delivering a letter opposing the pipeline signed by 211 New York organizations. </span></div>
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“If Cuomo is at all serious about addressing the growing climate crisis, he must reject the Williams fracked gas pipeline,” Alex Beauchamp, Northeast Region Director, Food & Water Watch. “Today, New Yorkers sent a strong signal to the governor – we’re sick of his empty rhetoric on climate change. It’s time for him to take bold action, and that starts by rejecting this dangerous pipeline.”</div>
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The Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline is proposed construction of a 23-mile pipeline extension from New Jersey, cutting through the waters of New York along the Staten Island coast, past Coney Island and into the Rockaways. </div>
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Participants of today’s action include representatives from New York Communities for Change, Sane Energy Project, Food & Water Watch, 350Brooklyn, Stop the Williams Pipeline Coalition, 350.org, Fossil Free, TK TK, and more.</div>
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“Six years after Superstorm Sandy hit, this fracked gas pipeline threatens the very communities most impacted and still recovering from that devastating storm,” said Kim Fraczek with Sane Energy Project. “With UN reports warning that we have just over a decade for meaningful action on climate, we need Governor Cuomo to be a real climate leader and stop fossil fuel projects like the Williams Pipeline.”</div>
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Over the last two months, a series of investigative reports published by WNYC and Capital & Main revealed potentially egregious conflicts of interest between high-level officials in Albany and the Williams Pipeline Company. One found that found that former CIO Vicki Fuller left her position at New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office in July, immediately assumed a director position with Williams Pipeline Company, and increased investments in the company by $80 million even as its stock dropped. </div>
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In September, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced his opposition to the Williams Pipeline, recognizing it as a “monumental step backwards.” Numerous elected officials are joining in a growing opposition letter. Across New York State, pressure is mounting for Governor Cuomo to make New York a model for a just transition to 100% renewable energy and ending all fossil fuel projects, especially fracked gas infrastructure. </div>
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In April, 2,000 people marched through Albany and 55 were arrested while sitting-in at the Governor’s office. In September, 3,000 people marched through Lower Manhattan for Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, and seven people were arrested the next day after blocking the intersection outside Governor Cuomo’s office demanding he “Rise to the Climate Crisis.”</div>
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“This is New York we’re talking about,” said Sara Gronim with 350Brooklyn. “With the Trump administration attacking our climate and communities, New Yorkers demand elected officials who will rise to the crisis, and put our health and safety ahead of fossil fuel interests.” </div>
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In addition, Andrew Cuomo appointed Maggie Moran, a lobbyist for Williams Co., as his gubernatorial re-election campaign full-time general consultant in charge of managing day-to-day operations and strategy. Moran has presented on the topic of “Natural Gas Infrastructure Advocacy” at a Williams Companies conference in May 2018.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - New York immigrant community and allies gathered to celebrate Día de los Muertos on November 1, 2018 in Washington Square Park followed by a procession to the ICE offices on Varick Street.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a call to unite during a day of remembrance and traditions that hold us together. We call on you to honor el Día de los Muertos by reminding everyone that life has no borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - The TYS Laundromat workers held a picket line on October 31, 2018 outside the laundromat at 215 E 116th St, East Harlem. Minimum wage, overtime pay and appropriate protective gear. These were the demands that workers at TYS Laundromat in East Harlem fought for and won. But now TYS is cutting workers' schedules as a retaliation against the workers rights to organize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For many years, the workers at TYS Laundromat have suffered from wage theft. For their work and dedication, they were regularly paid a sub-minimum wage without overtime pay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The TYS Laundromat workers are saying "No more". Their demands to TYS are simple:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Treat your workers with respect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Provide a safe work environment with appropriate safety gear and conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Pay a minimum wage with overtime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">* Come to the negotiation table in good faith for compensation of back wages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">TYS has met the workers' demands by paying the minimum wage and providing safety equipment. But now TYS is refusing to negotiate with its employees. They have cut their business hours and taken an additional day of work away from their employees, cutting workers' schedules by 13 hours a week. This is unacceptable. It is a clear retaliation against the workers, violating their rights to compensation and their rights to organize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Together we will demonstrate our community strength and let TYS Laundromat know that retaliation will not be tolerated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Hundreds of New Yorkers joined activist groups By the People and Baby Trump Tour at the Impeachment Parade organized on October 28, 2018 at Battery Park. The event featured the infamous 20-foot-high Baby Trump Balloon, which made Trump feel 'unwelcome' in the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This parade was organized to kick off mass campaign to mobilize millions of Americans to support impeachment and remove Trump's Administration from power and allow the people to build a country that works for all of us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Baby Trump Balloon, a 20-foot tall balloon depicting the president as a petulant child, wearing a diaper and holding a cell phone in his tiny hands, has been on a nationwide “Baby Trump Tour”. The tour has gone from Bedminster to Palm Beach (near Mar-a-Lago) alongside a rally for Power to Puerto Rico, to the Women’s March in Chicago, to Politicon in Los Angeles, and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The parade comes the weekend after a wave of attempted bombings targeted Trump’s top political opponents, just before the 2018 midterm election.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">America must defend the freedom and dignity of all those who call it home. But Donald Trump is separating families and children, promoting religious discrimination, encouraging white supremacists, obstructing justice, and working with a foreign dictator to undermine our democracy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Resisting this President and his administration is not a political action, it is one of survival. He has proven every day since elected that he is unfit to serve as our country’s leader. We must use every tool at our disposal to push back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cortlandt, New York - This week defense attorney David Dorfman made a compelling case that his clients Rebecca Berlin, David Publow and Janet González crawled into a segment of 42 inch diameter steel pipe in Cortlandt, New York in October 2016, halting construction of the Spectra/Enbridge AIM pipeline for 18 hours, in order to prevent a greater harm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Judge Kimberly Ragazzo is set to make a verdict on the case on January 8, 2019. In July, Ragazzo ruled the pipeline crawlers would be allowed to present the necessity defense, meaning their unlawful actions were necessary to prevent a greater, imminent harm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If Judge Ragazzo finds Berlin, Publow and González not guilty by reason of necessity, it will be the first time for a criminal trial employing a climate related necessity defense and could have implications for communities trying to stop fossil fuel pipelines across the country. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Spectra/Enbridge AIM pipeline transports fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The high pressure pipeline runs within 105 feet of critical safety infrastructure at the decaying Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, endangering 20 million people in the New York metropolitan area in the event of a rupture. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this week expert witnesses testified that in addition to its dangerous placement near Indian Point, the fracked gas pipeline already substantially contributes to climate change and exposes the local community to carcinogens and other toxic components of fracked gas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The defendants also took the stand this week testifying that they, along with the local community opposing the pipeline, exhausted all legal means before resorting to civil disobedience and were forced to take action when elected officials like Governor Cuomo and Senators Schumer and Gillibrand failed to exercise the full extent of their powers to stop the pipeline. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The local community and New Yorkers across the state are still calling on Governor Cuomo to be a true climate leader and shut off the gas in the pipeline. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is basically what Marilyn Oliva, one of its creators, told me early this summer when she asked if I would like to play one of the guardians of the sev7nth circle. We met in a direct action activist group after the 2018 presidential election. I said yes, of course! It’s hard to imagine what storytelling looks like on Instagram and the best way to “get it” is to follow the series through your Instagram account @sev7nthcirle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The creators of the Sev7nth Circle are Marilyn Oliva – an Affiliated Scholar at Fordham University and a freelance archivist, and Jan Libby – writer, designer, and producer of immersive and interactive stories. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our goal in creating this series was to recover the many women who have been whitewashed from </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">history in a compelling and unusual way. To do this we developed the idea of a limbo-like universe </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">where women from the Humanities, Arts and Sciences languish and wait to be released into the </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">public consciousness. We then created the @sev7nthcircle story about a young woman’s quest–to </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">discover the whereabouts of her mother–during which she discovers a secret society that fights for </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the return of the forgotten, lost, and erased women of history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Project: We wanted to tell the story of the women who have been whitewashed from history in a compelling and unusual way. To do this we developed the idea of a limbo-like universe where women from the Humanities, Arts and Sciences languish and wait to be released into the public consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We then created an Instagram series about two young women who go on a sort of personal quest–to discover the whereabouts of one of their mothers–and stumble on a secret society that both guards and seeks the return of these forgotten, lost, and erased women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instagram is the perfect platform to share the Sev7nth Circle story: it allows us to use a fun combination of content: still images, video, gifs, music, and text to tell our feminist sci-fi thriller and lets followers stay connected to the unfolding story whenever they check into Instagram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - The indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation, facilitated by Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), along with environmental organizations in NYC and national organization Rainforest Action Network stood together on O</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ctober 15,2018 to demand JPMorgan Chase divest from fossil fuels. Six women leaders, from the frontlines of pipeline battles across the nation, spoke out and disrupted Chase Bank’s Private Client offices in the landmarked 28 Liberty building downtown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today the Canadian company, Enbridge is seeking to renew its credit with Chase in order to complete the Line 3 expansion pipeline. Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement is dangerously similar to Keystone XL. They are both proposed 36” transborder pipelines which would carry heavy tar sands crude oil from Canada through the United States and across delicate water, land, and cultural resources, with some oil potentially bound for export. Despite harsh public backlash and environmental warnings from the disastrous KXL and DAPL fights, banks like JPMorgan Chase refuse to learn and continue funding outdated and dangerous pipelines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">JPMorgan Chase should prohibit all financing for companies with current or planned operations in the tar sands sector, in recognition of its environmental, social, and growing financial risks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This rallying cry from the fourth Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation launches their mission to New York City and Washington D.C. from October 15-17th, to take part in high-level meetings engaging the Equator Principle Association banks (EP banks) and the credit rating agency MSCI, regarding fossil fuel developments; Indigenous and human rights violations; dangers to increasing climate chaos; and demands for institutional action to change the harmful financing practices supporting extractive industries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The call from the Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation is for rights and environmental violations to be more thoroughly reflected in the rating scores given to fossil fuel extraction companies. Such shifts in rating agency procedures would act as as one tool to contribute to the continued divestment of funds from unjust and dangerous extractive corporations and projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">JPMorgan Chase, Wall Street’s worst offender when it comes to funding tar sands, and French bank Crédit Agricole are joint bookrunners and lead arrangers for the line of credit for Enbridge Energy Partners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">* The Mille Lacs, White Earth, and Red Lake tribes in Minnesota whose lands would be crossed by the pipeline are all strongly opposed to the pipeline due to its impact upon their territories, especially the culturally significant wild rice beds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Minnesota’s commerce department has concluded that the state does not need the project, and an Administrative Law Judge had ruled that the state’s Public Utility Commission should deny Enbridge its preferred route.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Enbridge has the only fully approved, fully funded major tar sands line in North America. It is a 1/3 owner in Dakota Access, and therefore a 1/3 owner in the brutality on unarmed people that took place in Standing Rock. Enbridge now plans to send almost one million barrels of oil per day through my people’s treaty territory, against the will of the tribes and people. Enbridge holds an A credit rating. No bank with even the most basic respect for human rights should be funding this company.” - Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation Anishinaabe, Tribal attorney, National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, and former advisor on Native American affairs to Bernie Sanders)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“Divestment from dirty fossil fuel extraction and infrastructure demonstrates a commitment to our collective future and the web of life. What is needed immediately from financial institutions, insurance companies and rating agencies, is a show of leadership and dedication to ecological sustainability, and human and Indigenous rights, as we face the unprecedented challenges of a world plunging into climate chaos. Indigenous women have long bore the brunt of extractive industries, and despite this, shine powerfully with solutions to the harms that come from these destructive practices. Financial institutions, businesses, and governments need to listen to Indigenous women and adhere to their demands, which are founded on requests for basic respect for obtaining free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous communities, as required under international law. WECAN International stands with representatives of the ongoing Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegations - and is calling for justice and accountability from institutions engaged in or enabling fossil fuel extraction. Business as usual cannot continue. Now is the time to move forward towards renewable, regenerative energy for all.” - Osprey Orielle Lake (Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network and Co-Director of the Divest, Invest, Protect campaign) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Activists from New York’s Indigenous and Black communities, along with decolonial advocates led the 3rd annual “Anti-Columbus Day Tour” at the American Museum of Natural History on October 8, 2018; the groups are demanding that Mayor de Blasio and members of the New York City Council join the growing list of cities in the U.S. that have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day and for the removal of Theodore Roosevelt’s statue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last year, more than a thousand people attended the Anti-Columbus Tour at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). In advance of this year’s gathering, organizers from New York’s Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities, along with decolonial advocates, issued a public letter demanding that New York join the growing list of cities in the U.S. that have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. New York City boasts the largest indigenous population in the country—more than one hundred thousand people—and it sits on the homeland of the Lenape, which is and always has been a place of Indigenous movement. In the letter, several grassroots groups (Decolonize This Place, American Indian Community House, NYC Stands with Standing Rock, Black Youth Project 100, and South Asia Solidarity Initiative) insist that the public holiday should honor the persistent presence of Indigenous Americans, and that it is no longer acceptable to commemorate Christopher Columbus, a figure widely associated with exploitation, enslavement, and conquest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The coalition demands that elected officials remove the equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt (outside the AMNH), which has often been cited as the most hated monument in New York City. The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African Americans and Indigenous Americans. “No truly reputable museum” observes Nitasha Dhillon from Decolonize This Place, “should allow such a racially inflammatory monument to guard its entrance.” The statue is city-owned, and sits on land managed by the Parks Department, so city officials have jurisdiction over its fate. Participating groups call on the AMNH leadership to decommission the museum’s “deeply flawed adoration” of Roosevelt, “a champion of male chauvinism and white supremacy,” which continues inside its walls in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The letter also calls attention to the Museum's discredited racial classification system that relegates colonized peoples to the domain of Nature and colonizers to the domain of Culture and Science. Even more bizarre, as Amrit Trewn, Black Youth Project 100 organizer points out, "there is no space in the museum where African and African-descended people are allowed to exist in modern time, they are frozen in the past.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Regarding the inappropriate display of artifacts, Crystal Migwans, from NYC Stands with Standing Rock, calls for respect for these "artifacts" as ancestral beings,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and for true collaboration with their descendants: "The AMNH sits atop a mountain of cultural wealth drained from our communities. The objects in those cases are our relatives, and their mistreatment here, in the heart of this American metropolis, reflects our own." The groups have insisted that the museum’s display plan be reviewed and re-conceived by curatorial representatives of the “exhibited” populations, and that human remains, sacred things, and objects of power be placed under the authority of their descendants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently, the AMNH leadership announced plans to renovate the Northwest Coast Hall, its first cultural gallery, largely untouched since it was built at the turn of the twentieth century. While this is a welcome initiative, it is long overdue and there is much more to be done to catch up with other museums much further down the path of decolonization. The groups have called for the immediate establishment of an independent Decolonization Commission to assess how the AMNH can transform the other halls, and for town hall meetings to be scheduled so that members of the public can testify openly about the impact of the racist stereotypes and demeaning representations on display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since hundreds of thousands of school children visit the museum annually, the letter highlights the harms perpetuated upon New York’s highly diverse youth. Currently, the AMNH, which receives $17m of taxpayer funding annually, and uses land and facilities managed by the city, is not held accountable for the damage done to these young minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">According to Tlingit artist Jackson Polys: “Real decolonization--a repatriation of all objects and land to Indigenous peoples--may seem beyond the reach of an institution that to its core acts to reinforce settler colonial mentalities.” In his view, “there's real opportunity here to begin dialogue, but can our voices truly be heard when framed--contained --by these constant justifications for a foundational violence that permeate every representation of non-European peoples?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On October 8th, the groups led an “Anti-Columbus Day Tour” at the American Museum of Natural History, beginning at 3pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Hundreds of new Yorkers took to the streets on October 6, 2018 after the Senate voted on Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, to express rage and refusal to consent to the rule of the illegitimate and undemocratic appointment to the Supreme Court. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Saturday, after the Senate confirmed a lying rapist in the face of this opposition, citizens organized to oppose this rulings. This unjust process has exposed what an undemocratic sham our so-called democracy actually is. We are angry, but we won’t go back. We will never be silent again. With this vote, these senators have betrayed survivors of sexual assault, women, LGBTQ people, poor people, and people of color for an entire generation. There is now another biased judge and sexual predator on the Supreme Court--one that lies as easily as the president.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While the Democrats asked us to trust the FBI, women and oppressed people took the streets around the country. Here in New York City, we marched on Monday and we walked out and marched on Thursday. In Washington, DC, thousands of protesters took over the Senate building. Survivors traveled from as far as Alaska to tell their stories, and protesters occupied Senators’ offices.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In Mitch McConnell’s words, Republicans intend to “plow through.” They’re putting their relentless pursuit of a Supreme Court controlled radical right-wingers ahead of the brave women who’ve spoken out against Kavanaugh and the mountain of evidence that proves he’s unfit to serve on the highest court in the land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kavanaugh clearly lied under oath. His lack of judicial temperament and sharp partisanship show us he isn’t fit to serve on the Supreme Court. The sham FBI investigation that the public can’t view was rushed and left out witnesses that could have further corroborated allegations against him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This action was organized by the ad-hoc coalition of groups that planned Monday's "No Justice, No Seat" march to the Yale Club and Thursday's walkouts and "Cancel Kavanaugh" protest at Trump Tower. Activists with: Democratic Socialists of America, International Socialist Organization, International Women's Strike, Left Voice, Black Women's Blueprint, National Women's Liberation,Socialist Alternative NYC for Abortion Rights, Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Red Bloom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Rise and Resist's Elevator Action Group , Brooklyn Center for the Independence of the Disabled (BCID), Center for Independence of the Disabled New York (CIDNY), TransitCenter, Transportation Alternatives, and The People’s MTA called on the MTA to make a binding legal agreement to make New York City’s subway system fully accessible at a rally outside the New York State Supreme Court, on October 5, 2018 prior to settlement hearing with Judge Schlomo Hagler. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At the rally calling on MTA to make the subways accessible for all New Yorkers, speakers talked about how elevators would allow them to use the city’s subways. It’s not public transit if only some people can ride. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Disability Rights Advocates represents several disability groups who have charged that the MTA violates New York City Human Rights law by denying access to the subways for people with disabilities and others who need elevators to ride freely throughout the city. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York City has the least accessible subway system of all major US cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Over a thousand New Yorkers joined members of DSA, ISO, IWS, Socialist Alternative, NYCFAR, NWL and Left Voice on a march organized on October 1, 2018 to voice their opposition to Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation. Participants gathered in Madison Square Park, marching to the Yale Club, and ending with a rally in Grand Central. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Women: cis, trans, black, immigrant, workers, survivors of sexual violence, and allies across the country are furious at the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. We will not stand for the confirmation of a man who is guilty of sexual assault and whose judicial record makes clear he cares only about the rights of elite white men like himself and the corporate and carceral power they wield. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of ongoing protests and the courage of survivors to speak out, Republicans were forced to delay a vote. This only happened because of organized protest and he will only be stopped if we keep organizing. Kavanaugh should have to answer for his crimes, not given a lifetime appointment where he will do on the bench what he has done in his personal life: attack women’s bodily autonomy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Brazilian women, individuals of all genders, sex orientation, immigrants, minorities, people of all religions, age, races and ethnicities gathered in Union Square on September 29, 2018 to support women in Brazil currently standing against the presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, over allegations of racism, misogyny, homophobia and xenophobia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Brazilians reaffirm their request for justice for Marielle Franco, a Rio councilwoman brutally murdered over six months ago, protesting against misogyny, racism, class prejudice and against any kind of intolerance, against the alt-right presidential candidate, the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, who represents a setback for minorities and for all citizens of the world who respect human rights and who want a more fair and peaceful society.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That he have 4 sons and on the 5th time he got weak and had a daughter</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He said to another politician that she is too ugly to be raped</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That if the parents were more disciplinarians their kids wouldn't turn up to be gay</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A good criminal is a dead criminal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He also compared the black communities directly descendants from slaves who rebelled and organized themselves against slavery (Quilombolas) with cattle, and said they are not worth it, not even for "procriation".</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On top of everything he is ex-military and he is in favor of the military dictatorship. We were in a military dictatorship from 64 to 85 and hundreds of people disappeared (we still don't have bodies or records of what happened to them). During this time torture was a thing when questioning "criminals" and there was this specially cruel torturer called Brilhante Ustra that one of the things he liked to do was to insert alive rats on women vaginas. Former president Dilma Rousseff meet him when she was a prisoner (she was part of the youth movement against the dictatorship). When she was facing the impeachment and Bolsonaro when there to say his vote he said "in honor of Ustra, the terror of Dilma Rousseff". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are multiple demonstrations organized this weekend all over Brazil and the world by females against Jair Bolsonaro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY — Nearly a year after the expiration of their union contract, hundreds of CUNY faculty and staff marched through the Financial District on September 27, 2018 to demand public investment in The City University of New York and raises for underpaid faculty and staff. Led by a brass band and carrying lighted signs, hundreds of union members picketed outside the NY Stock Exchange before chanting their way to the investment banking firm of William C. Thompson, chairperson of the CUNY Board of Trustees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Full-time salaries at CUNY lag thousands of dollars behind those at comparable institutions such as Rutgers and University of Connecticut. Adjuncts who work at CUNY earn a near-poverty wage despite their PhDs or other advanced degrees. Nearly a year after the expiration of their last contract, CUNY faculty and staff are marching through the Financial District to protest the inequality that leaves CUNY starved of funding while Wall Street profits soar. They will end the march at the investment banking office of William C. Thompson, Jr. (the CUNY Board of Trustees Chair) to demand funding for a contract that offers competitive salaries and ensures academic quality</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“CUNY needs investment and an administration willing to demand it. Wall Street is awash in profits, yet public institutions like CUNY are starved of funds. It’s time for Wall Street to pay its share and time for the CUNY trustees, led by Bill Thompson, to demand public funding for quality CUNY education and a fully funded contract for CUNY faculty and staff,” said Professor Barbara Bowen, president of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union of CUNY faculty and professional staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After years of declining per-student investment by New York State in the CUNY senior colleges, the faculty, student advisors and other professionals at CUNY are underpaid and expected to work in conditions that undermine student success. Much of CUNY’s infrastructure is crumbling. Full-time salaries at CUNY lag thousands of dollars behind those at comparable institutions such as Rutgers and University of Connecticut. The 12,000 adjunct faculty who work at CUNY now teach the majority of courses, but are paid a near-poverty wage despite having PhDs or other advanced degrees. The union has called for an increase in adjunct pay to $7,000 a course, to bring pay at CUNY in line with adjunct pay at Fordham, Penn State and Rutgers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The professors also protested the inequality that leaves their public university starved of funds while Wall Street profits soar. Wall Street posted $25 billion in profits in 2017. Traders this year are earning record salaries. The industry is swollen with cash, thanks to federal tax cuts. Meanwhile, CUNY’s collective bargaining costs are not fully funded by New York State and CUNY colleges have been forced to cut their already reduced budgets for academic programs and student support.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson is a leading executive at the investment banking firm Siebert Cisneros Shank & Co., L.L.C. He was appointed by Governor Cuomo in 2016 to head the CUNY Board of Trustees, the body that approves both the University’s budget requests and its collective bargaining agreements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The union is demanding State and City funding to back up the next union contract so that CUNY will not have to cannibalize academic programs or continue to raise tuition to find the necessary funds. The PSC’s 30,000 members are ready to fight for the raises and investment needed to ensure an intellectually rich college education for CUNY students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">“By failing to invest adequately in CUNY,” said Bowen, “New York is making a policy decision not to invest in the future of hundreds of thousands of working-class, poor and middle-class students. This rich city in this rich state must do better. CUNY needs competitive salaries that would allow the University to keep the talented, committed faculty and staff students need. And CUNY’s underpaid adjuncts need wage justice. The 30,000 members of the PSC are united in the demand for a fair and fully funded contract that enables us to serve the people of New York.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wall Street posted $25 billion in profits last year, while CUNY students got tuition hikes, underpaid professors and crumbling buildings. Hundreds of thousands of CUNY students depend on CUNY’s faculty and staff to provide the excellent education that allows CUNY to lead the nation in moving students out of poverty and into the middle class. But after years of declining per-student investment from the State, this work is underpaid and too often performed in conditions that undermine student success. Full-time salaries are uncompetitive. Twelve thousand faculty members are low-wage, part-time adjuncts. CUNY needs a raise—a raise that is funded with public dollars, not with tuition hikes and further cuts to academic programs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - Hundreds of protesters, including moms, kids, immigrants and allies, rallied outside JPMorgan Chase headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2018, to deliver hundreds of thousands of petitions and letters urging the bank to stop financing Geo Group and CoreCivic, two large for-profit prison corporations profiting from immigration detention centers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this year, Mariee, a 19-month old toddler, died shortly after being released from a CoreCivic-run immigration detention center in Dilley, TX - where there have been reported cases of negligence and abuse. A vigil for Mariee Juarez was held as part of the action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A similar action was also held at Wells Fargo headquarters in San Francisco today against the bankrolling of for-profit prison corporations that are profiting off the pain and separation of immigrant families. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The day of action was led by the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition, which has helped lead the fight against the Trump Administration’s cruel immigration policies since organizing the historic national day of action. The coalition is made up of more than 100 organizations representing tens of millions of members nationwide, including MomsRising, Presente.org, National Domestic Worker Alliance, the Center for Popular Democracy, MoveOn, Make the Road New York, Hand in Hand, In The Public Interest, Little Sis, AVAAZ, Enlace, Candide Group, CREDO, CMSM, Courage Campaign and more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In all 50 states, more than 7,000 people have committed to deliver letters urging local JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo branches to stop financing Geo Group and CoreCivic. Protesters will also deliver more than 400,000 signatures and letters to these companies, which they deem to be #BackersofHate, alongside symbolic items like stuffed animals and blankets to represent the children still detained and separated from their families. Just this week, the Trump Administration escalated its attacks on immigrants by pushing out a new “public charge” regulation proposal that, if adopted, would make immigration a pay-to-play game, putting the wealthy ahead of families who’ve waited years to be reunited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yaritza Mendez, Immigration & Civil Rights Coordinator at Make the Road NY, said, “We have stood outside Jamie Dimon’s house and played for him the cries of immigrant children. Now we stand outside his office because one of those children has died. JPMorgan Chase has refused to withdraw from financing private prisons and immigrant detention companies despite the horrors taking place at their facilities. Our loved ones and neighbors are being criminalized and put in cages, and it must end. We will continue to stand up to JPMorgan Chase and Jamie Dimon until they stop bankrolling oppression.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Approximately 71% of the average daily population in ICE custody are held in privately operated jails. Since ICE was created in 2003, 85 detention centers nationwide have reported a total of 176 deaths. CoreCivic and GEO Group depend on debt financing from banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, to conduct their day-to-day business operations, finance new facilities, and acquire smaller companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The millions of Americans represented by the #FamilesBelongTogether coalition, made up of more than 80 organizations, call on Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase to end this complicity and immediately stop their financial support for GEO Group and CoreCivic, private prisons that are profiting from mass incarceration and the criminalization of immigration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - DRAWDOWN: The most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming was presented at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on September 24, 2018.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lynne Twist, Co-founder of Pachamama Alliance.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Presentation by Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, senior writer, V.P of communication and engagement at Drawdown.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chad Frischmann, V.P and research director at Drawdown.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Karen Washington, urban farmer, food justice advocate and co-owner at Rise & Root Farm.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lauren Zullo, director of sustainability at Jonathan Rose Companies. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Project Drawdown describes when and how humanity can reach drawdown, the point in time when the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases begins to decline on a year-to-year basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. For each solution, we describe its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. The goal of the research that informs Drawdown is to determine if we can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years. All solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Close to one year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the Island remains in crisis owing to the lack of resources and empathy from its U.S. colonizer. It took more than six months for the death count to come even close to reality. Schools have closed. More than 100,000 left the Island. Many areas remain in the dark without electricity. Disease is climbing and the Island's debt continues in debate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year's event falls on the anniversary of one of the island's largest insurrections, "El Grito de Lares" uprising. Organizers, youth, seniors, clergy, and participants will dress in white as a symbol of hope bearing banners blasting "Memoriam for Lives Lost, USA Citizens, Surviving Trauma and Rebuilding Puerto Rico" and "Exempt P.R. from the Jones Act".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Participants walked 2.5 miles in unity, as one, in silence; from East Harlem to Trump Tower on 57th Street and Fifth Avenue remaining in peace for approximately 15 minutes before dispersing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Puerto Rico and California joined in solidarity with a Silent Procession on the same day at the same time in the town of Mayagüez, on the Island of Vieques and in the City of Los Angeles. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">New York, NY - On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, hundreds gathered in Union Square on September 20, 2018, demanding justice for Puerto Rico. Many Puerto Ricans are still struggling for survival and fighting to remain, reclaim, and rebuild.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The crisis unfolding in Puerto Rico continues to magnify as the United States government interferes within emergency aid and threatens to bury Puerto Rico in more debt. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is happening in Puerto Rico is a climate crisis fueled by a long legacy of colonization and extraction.</span></div>
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