During the coldest winter in a generation, ConEd left New Yorkers in the dark and then denied them reimbursements.
Nothing shows the failures of capitalism like an energy monopoly that serves shareholders at the expense of working people.
It’s time to take our power back.
“There is no liberation for the working class on an uninhabitable planet.”
@claireforny.bsky.social’s platform shows the kind of future we need: global cooperation to protect our people and planet, not endless wars that destroy them. 🌎🕊️🌹
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🌎 EARTH MONTH IS HERE 🌏
We're celebrating the best planet in the solar system all month long. Join us for game nights, parties, and eco-socials — and learn how you can plug into the fight for a Green New York.
Hit the link in bio to sign up 🔗
I've heard of Earth Day... but Earth Night?!
Come party for a great cause on 4/22
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Instead of imperialist warmongering, skyrocketing bills, and climate chaos, we can build a world where every living thing thrives.
Public renewables are how we fight the fossil fuel death spiral. We need champions like Darializa in power to bring it to a national scale! ⚡️
CALL RELAY TODAY ☎️⚡️
New Yorkers won’t let @governor.ny.gov Hochul do Trump’s dirty work and destroy our climate laws. Fossil fuels are the affordability crisis, public renewables are the answer.
Tell Hochul: don’t touch our climate laws, build public renewables! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Call relay for public renewables! The State Assembly called for public power. Now, the only people standing in the way are Governor Hochul and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. This Thursday we’re keeping their phones ringing non-stop to demand $200 million for public renewables in this year’s final budget.
Why now? The budget is coming The final budget comes down to three people: Hochul, Stewart-Cousins, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. They're negotiating right now. This is our window to apply pressure before the deal is done. Governor Hochul’s Office: (518) 474-8390 Leader Stewart-Cousins’s Office: (518) 455-2585
![The Script
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I live in [Neighborhood]. I'm calling on [Governor Hochul / Leader Stewart-Cousins] to include $200 million in this year's budget for the New York Power Authority, and to fight for it at the negotiating table.
We need this funding to build renewable energy projects that lower utility bills, advance our climate goals, and create family-sustaining union jobs. Renewable energy projects like solar and battery storage are the cheapest and easiest ways to meet our energy needs.
Every project NYPA builds will create new revenues for the REACH program to provide direct utility bill credits to ratepayers who are currently struggling with spiking heating and electricity prices.
Public renewables are the only way to solve critical underlying problems with our grid and provide immediate affordability.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dx7xfcbtkmkerk72yxqwdo55/bafkreicg5re2cmi3o5u2h5ydea44civwciot2qyxnrbyk42lm2rrvkkwya)
The Script Hi, my name is [NAME] and I live in [Neighborhood]. I'm calling on [Governor Hochul / Leader Stewart-Cousins] to include $200 million in this year's budget for the New York Power Authority, and to fight for it at the negotiating table. We need this funding to build renewable energy projects that lower utility bills, advance our climate goals, and create family-sustaining union jobs. Renewable energy projects like solar and battery storage are the cheapest and easiest ways to meet our energy needs. Every project NYPA builds will create new revenues for the REACH program to provide direct utility bill credits to ratepayers who are currently struggling with spiking heating and electricity prices. Public renewables are the only way to solve critical underlying problems with our grid and provide immediate affordability.
Why a call relay? A single call is easy to ignore. Nonstop calls all day are impossible to ignore. Just like a relay race, each runner carries the baton and passes it on. Together we go the distance. It only takes 5 minutes. But we need everyone to keep the chain going.
TOMORROW: Join the call relay for public power! ☎️⚡️
This is our last chance to win the public renewables funding we need in the budget. We need you to keep the pressure on @governor.ny.gov by keeping her phone ringing off the hook.
It's Build or Burn. So let's turn up the heat.
All hands on deck to elect a public power champion!
We’re hitting the streets this Saturday 3/21 from 1-4 pm to send @conradforharlem.bsky.social to Albany and help New Yorkers win lower bills, good union jobs, and clean air.
Let's bring power back to the people of Harlem! ⚡️💪
Tired of sky-high utility bills? So are your neighbors. Hit the streets (and phones) with us next week to send a public power champion to Albany. ⚡️
📞 Phone Bank
⏰ Monday, March 16 6-8 PM
🚪 Canvass
⏰ Saturday, March 21 1-4PM
📍 Morningside Park
🔗 Sign up @ link in bio!
PRESSURE WORKS. We just secured $200M for public renewables in the Assembly's One-House budget 💪
Now the only thing standing in the way of affordable, union-built, clean energy is @governor.ny.gov. Demand the funding we need in the final budget: bit.ly/200MillionOrBust
No war on Iran
No war on Venezuela
No war on Cuba
No war but the climate class war
Public renewable energy means affordable energy, clean air, and a healthy future for all New Yorkers.
Instead, Hochul is doubling down on the broken, dirty, greedy system pushing New York into crisis.
It's still Build or Burn. Which side are you on, @governor.ny.gov?
It’s still cold AF outside but leave it to ConEd to get your blood boiling. Thanks to corporate greed, New Yorkers are about to see even higher bills. 🤬
Staving off frostbite shouldn’t mean exploding your energy bill. We need power that works for people, not shareholders.
New York Times headline A Week Without Heat in New York City Across New York City, complaints of a lack of heat and hot water shot up to record highs this past year, and over the past two years, the number of city-issued violations for serious heat deficiencies was more than double the typical average.
“We are just left to freeze,” said George Sanchez, 25, a seasonal worker at the Bronx Zoo who lives in the building on Anderson Avenue. The Bronx, the poorest borough, may also be the city’s coldest, judging by the number of heat complaints in 2024, according to RentHop, a real estate site. In an interview on Jan. 6, Mr. Sanchez said it was the first day the heat had been on in about a week. During the lapse, the temperature outdoors had dropped to a bitter 19 degrees at night, making him fear for his pet turtles’ health. “We feel like prisoners in our own homes, just neglected,” he said.
Mercedes Escoto, 67, keeps a space heater in each room and a pot of water in her open oven for steam heat when the boiler fails. The cold has pushed her to become a tenant organizer with Community Action for Safe Apartments, a group participating in the long-running legal battle with the landlord. Ms. Escoto said she was hopeful about the professed tenant-first policies of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, including “rental rip-off” hearings for tenants to voice their housing problems. “I deserve to live well in an apartment that provides all the services I pay for,” Ms. Escoto said after a week without heat, her voice breaking. In her hand was the wool cap she wears on the days when she can see her breath in her apartment. “I don’t deserve this,” she said.
Energy Must Be A Human Right During bitter winters and sweltering summers, energy is a life-or-death necessity. But under our for-profit system, millions of New Yorkers are forced to choose which of their basic needs they can afford to skip. There’s only one way out of this crisis: an energy system that puts our needs first, not shareholders. We need public power.
During times like this, a warm home is a life-or-death necessity. But in our profit-fueled system, exploitative landlords and greedy energy companies extort us just to stay alive.
We need a public energy system that puts people first and cuts out the rent-seeking middle men.
this could be us 💔🥀 @governor.ny.gov
Great coverage of the fight for public power in AMNY, including
⚡ Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's support for 15 GW of public renewables
💡 The new Public Power Democracy Act
🏛️ The need to fund public renewables in the budget
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Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and naked oil grab prove what we already knew: anti-imperialism and ecosocialism are a shared struggle.
Join NYC-DSA Ecosocialists for a call Tuesday at 8pm ET and hear from DSA climate organizers about our role in the fight! bit.ly/VZecosocialism
Tomorrow: join CCI'ers @triofrancos.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social to learn more about the dangerous return of resource imperialims.
MASS CALL Venezuela, Resource Imperialism & Internationalist Climate Politics Featuring: Thea Riofrancos, Gabriel Hetland, Danny Valdes Moderated by: Batul Hassan Tuesday 1/13, 8pm ET bit.ly/VZecosocialism
Trump's Venezuela oil grab shows why oil imperialism is leading the world to the brink of disaster.
Join us Tuesday at 8pm ET for a mass call on what these events mean for Latin America, the planet, and the fight for anti-imperialist ecosocialism. RSVP: bit.ly/VZecosocialism
Join @dianaforqueens.com & @claireforqueens.bsky.social in demanding the public renewables we need for lower bills! 😤
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New from @claireforqueens.bsky.social & @dianaforqueens.com! 📰
@governor.ny.gov has a choice: Higher bills, blackouts & more pollution? Or lower costs, clean air, & good union jobs?
The solution is clear: commit $200M for public renewables in 2026 ⚡️
Tell Hochul: Fund Public Renewables Send a message before her State of the State address on Tuesday: fossil fuels aren't an affordability solution, public renewables are. Demand $200 million for public renewables in this year's budget! bit.ly/200millionorbust
Donald Trump is driving your bills up to make his Big Oil donors richer. @governor.ny.gov is doing his bidding — fast-tracking gas pipelines and pushing new fossil fuel plants in NYC. Tell her to invest in real affordability solutions: public renewables.
bit.ly/200millionorbust
possibly relevant:
Fossil fuel capitalism is killing the planet, our communities, and our wallets
We need to #BuildPublicRenewables to break out of the death spiral
Tell @governor.ny.gov to invest in *real* solutions, not disaster pipelines: bit.ly/200MillionOrBust
New York needs power BY the people, FOR the people
@sarahana.bsky.social & @sengonzalezny.bsky.social are making sure NYPA truly represents the people it needs to serve ✊
Ready to fight for affordable energy? Demand @governor.ny.gov commit $200M for public renewables in the 2026 budget 😤
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Canary Media headline: New York’s public utility approves plan to build 5.5GW of renewables The move nearly doubles NYPA’s initial renewables goal but still scales back from summer targets. The agency blames Trump’s tax-credit cuts and grid challenges. By Alexander Kaufman, for Canary Media
The New York Power Authority approved a plan Tuesday to nearly double the state-owned utility’s goal for solar, wind, and energy storage projects to 5.5 gigawatts. The new investments would boost clean power in the state as the private market fails to deploy renewable energy fast enough to meet New York’s lofty decarbonization goals. In a unanimous decision, the board of trustees voted to greenlight the utility’s new strategic plan for renewables. Though the 5.5 GW figure is an increase over the utility’s initial plan, released this January, it also represents a reduction from the 7 GW draft plan NYPA unveiled over the summer.
The utility blamed the slimmer target on private renewable-energy developers pulling out of 16 joint ventures. Activists, however, accused NYPA of dropping projects to boost plans for new fossil-fuel infrastructure recently approved by Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat. The 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act requires New York to generate 70% of its power from renewables by 2030 and the rest of its electricity from zero-carbon sources by 2040. It’s one of the most ambitious decarbonization goals in the country, but the state is lagging behind on meeting its legally mandated benchmarks in virtually every category of clean power except for distributed energy sources that include rooftop solar.
![The finalized plan drew sharp criticism from Public Power New York, a left-wing group that campaigned for the Build Public Renewables Act. Rather than cut back, the group said, NYPA should expand its target to 15 GW of solar, wind, and batteries. The organization helped marshal more than 10,000 public comments supporting the higher-end goal.
“This is unfortunately part of a pattern,” [Public Power NY co-chair] Paulson said. “Instead of using the tools to build a more affordable and better future, Hochul is pushing toxic fossil-fuel projects to enrich her utility donors and potentially even enrich her own family.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dx7xfcbtkmkerk72yxqwdo55/bafkreifdyaqcpczxega4g5dlflmpxkk6vhpyxjaqsx4o7xdui4gwsxt3bq)
The finalized plan drew sharp criticism from Public Power New York, a left-wing group that campaigned for the Build Public Renewables Act. Rather than cut back, the group said, NYPA should expand its target to 15 GW of solar, wind, and batteries. The organization helped marshal more than 10,000 public comments supporting the higher-end goal. “This is unfortunately part of a pattern,” [Public Power NY co-chair] Paulson said. “Instead of using the tools to build a more affordable and better future, Hochul is pushing toxic fossil-fuel projects to enrich her utility donors and potentially even enrich her own family.”
So @governor.ny.gov & her Republican NYPA CEO Justin Driscoll saw the affordable energy crisis and decided the best plan was for NYPA to build even LESS public renewables? 😵💫
Unacceptable. Public renewables are NY’s best tool for affordable energy - we need more, not less.
Albany Times Union headline Commentary: New York schools and campuses need clean-energy investment By Melinda Person, for the Times Union
New York’s students walk into school buildings every morning with big dreams. But too many of those buildings across every region of the state are simply not built for the realities of today — or the climate of tomorrow. If we’re serious about student health, academic success and meeting New York’s clean-energy goals, we need a statewide investment that matches the scope of the challenge. A Carbon Free and Healthy Schools Bond Act is that investment.
According to state facilities data, the average school building in New York was already over 50 years old as of 2005. Many were constructed in the 1950s through the 1970s, long before modern ventilation standards, reliable cooling or energy-efficient design. National data tells a similar story: The average U.S. instructional school building is now 49 years old, with 38% built before 1970. When buildings are this old, they weren’t designed for the electrical loads needed for solar power, clean-energy systems or modern filtration. We are asking mid-20th-century facilities to meet 21st-century climate and learning demands. It will not work without major capital investment.
Solar is especially powerful. Schools are among the most effective sites in New York for solar energy generation, dramatically reducing operating costs and freeing up local funds for classrooms and student support. Our public colleges face the same pressures. SUNY’s 2,800 buildings carry a deferred maintenance backlog of roughly $10 billion that is growing by $600 million to $700 million each year. A bond act that includes SUNY and CUNY recognizes that climate leadership and educational excellence are inseparable, and that New York’s higher education system cannot prepare the workforce of tomorrow in buildings built for the last century.
New York's teachers @nysut.bsky.social are right: our kids need upgraded schools — and the publicly-owned renewable energy to power them
Green schools can be the first step to a future we'll be proud to pass to the next generation
2023: Pass groundbreaking BPRA climate law with Zohran Mamdani ✅
2025: Elect him the first Ecosocialist mayor in NYC ✅✅
2026: Supercharge the movement for a Green New York ✅✅✅
It's baffling to see @governor.ny.gov work overtime to trash our climate law, poison our water and air, and raise our utility rates to line the pockets of fossil fuel barons--until you see how much money is flying around between big polluters, big lobbyists, and Hochul's campaign
