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Apr 5 • 10 tweets • 8 min read

@EmilyAssembly

“These fossil fuel companies [lobbyisyts] are pouring lies into our representatives ears … we have an opportunity to build a new green economy.” That’s right! 🔥
-@EmilyAssembly leads off presser/rally for #GasFreeNY gas ban on new construction.

@NYSA_Majority

“As young people we know how important this is… this is an affordable, practical step to fight climate change, cut pollution and create good jobs.” Calls on @NYSA_Majority @GovKathyHochul @NYSenDems to enact #GasFreeNY
-Maraki from @NYPIRG

@LizAGMoran

Our emcee @LizAGMoran emphasizes we’re running out of time as the UN IPCC report released yesterday drives home.

Now 73 people on the call on a few hours notice. People want to see this enacted!

@weact4ej

“Our leaders cannot allow fossil fuel interests to steamroll the state on the all-electric building act.”
-Annie from @weact4ej

@BurdickAD93

.@BurdickAD93 drives home “this makes perfect sense. This makes the greatest sense from the perspective of saving the planet and saving in our pocketbook.” 🎯💯👍🏽exactly right! He is asking @NYSA_Majority @CarlHeastie to make this a priority for passage.

Our member Rachel explains what it’s like to be a survivor of a climate disaster who lost everything to the storm.
“We ran out into the night with nothing but what we had on… to this day me and my daughter suffer from PTSD from the storm.”
She calls for #GasFreeNY to pass NOW

Kevin an drilling & installing contractor who works in WNY and CNY explains that going fossil free technology works everywhere.

“New construction is the ideal spot to start weaning away from the fossil fuel industry.” 🎯

@agreenewyork

Avni from @agreenewyork
“We need to stop delaying common sense solutions.” Calls on @GovKathyHochul assembly and senate to move the bill in the budget.

@HeatSmartTmpkns

“Upstate NY is the perfect place to install heat pumps.”
-Lisa from @HeatSmartTmpkns
Explains how someone went from 7k per year in costs to a few hundred dollars by going off fossil fuels and onto a geothermal heat pump. Saves money!

@CarlHeastie

“The UN report [exposes] the power of the fossil fuel industry holding us back… in NY this comes as no surprise… it’s time for NYers like @CarlHeastie @NYSA_Majority to stand with people or the fossil fuel industry.”
-.@AlexAtFWW with @foodandwater
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
We agree 💯

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Apr 6

EMERGENCY: New York lawmakers are about to pass a budget that undermines everything they say they believe in and doubles down on the racist criminalization of poverty. Thread. 1/

After months of talking about the need to address the troubling increase in gun violence, NY leaders are trying to push a bill that targets victimless, low-level crimes of poverty like jumping the turnstile or mothers who can’t afford diapers for dangerous pre-trial jailing. /2

This plan will do nothing to address gun violence. It will only worsen mental health, substance use disorder, and poverty. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to matter. /3

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@nychange

Feb 10

@NBCnewyork

Here's @NBCnewyork misinforming its audience on #bailreform with a claim that Mayor Adams wants judges to have discretion to hold “gun criminals” in jail. It's false and misleading on many levels – and a distraction from what's really needed to improve community safety. 🧵/1

Putting aside the dehumanizing and inaccurate “gun criminal” label, NBC is attempting to cover the fight over bail reform, which impacts people who are presumed innocent and convicted of nothing. /2

In fact, gun charges, including possession, are “bail-eligible”, meaning judges can set bail or remand someone to jail without a trial under current law. /3

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@nychange

Nov 6, 2020

There have been a lot of bad takes about New York State Senate races, so we’re setting the record straight.

1) THERE ARE NO FINAL COUNTS. A record number of people voted by mail, and none of these votes have been counted yet. #CountEveryVote

2) For now, it seems the Democrats will maintain a significant majority in the NY Senate, overcoming deeply gerrymandered districts DESIGNED to elect Republicans, and yet Republicans are trying to spin this as their victory. Check out the district map of SD 22:

3) In fact, while the mail-in votes still need to be counted, it appears that Democrats in the NY Senate will have at least the second-largest ever majority in modern history.

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@nychange

Feb 17, 2020

As an organization that fights for poor people in NYC we’ve seen the violence that Wall Street policies do to our communities first hand. For that reason we’ve taken it on ourselves to highlight the influence New York’s billionaire elite have wielded in the Democratic Primary.

We push the envelope to confront politicians on stances that hurt our families. In doing so, we went too far in our protest of Vice President Biden. Our anger over his previous votes should not have clouded our judgment. We apologize to Vice President Biden.

Our protest is now being used in a disinformation campaign by Mike Bloomberg. He is spending hundreds of millions to buy the presidency and falsely claiming that we are in support of any presidential candidate.

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