Monday, April 13, Midtown @ 11:15am: Cuomo Rally! Governor Cuomo is coming to town for the first time since we saw him outside his office on December

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Governor Cuomo is coming to town for the first time since we saw him outside his office on December 17th! Join us to say thanks for the ban and ask the governor to do the right thing one more time! Assemble in front of the Harvard Club, 27 west 44th street 11:15am-1pm: Take Our Message Straight To Cuomo: VETO PORT AMBROSE! RSVP here.

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This is the definition of insane energy: Just four years after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear power is being promoted as a "clean, green" solution to climate change; the number of nuclear power plants is expected to double globally over the next 20 years.

And the United States has just announced that it will “upgrade” its nuclear arsenal of 7,500 weapons to the tune of $1 trillion. Russia and the other seven nuclear states are following suit. When attention should be focused on halting climate change, building a sustainable world, and ending racial and economic injustice, we appear to be building for war instead.

Sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace/Climate Action and the Brooklyn Friends/Peace and Social Action Committee

Speakers: Marilyn Elie, co-founder, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition; Joseph Gerson, AFSC, author of Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World

7pm, Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse
110 Schermerhorn St (at Boerum Place near Borough Hall), Downtown Brooklyn (Map).

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Surfrider Foundation Central Long Island Youth and All Our Energy will say "Stop Port Ambrose" with an Art Build - Love, Long Beach!

Gather and make "hands-on" art to use as a banner, and learn more about the Port Ambrose project.

Long Beach Magnolia Center (Upstairs…next to Rec Center)
650 Magnolia Blvd, Long Beach, New York 11561

Action Alert: Who You Gonna Call?

We're making great progress on Reso 549, but we still need 12 more signers!
The City Council hearing last week was held jointly by the Environmental Committee with the Waterfront Committee. Waterfronts Chair Deborah Rose and Councilmembers Garodnick and Johnson attended the hearing, but so far, only Councilmember Johnson has signed on. Let's make sure that the entire Waterfront committee supports this reso! That means this week's goal is to contact these 4 committee members (just email or call using the sample letter here.

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Chair, Deborah Rose

 
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Chaim Deutsch

 
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Dan Garodnick

 
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Paul Vallone

Deborah Rose DRose@Council.nyc.gov or 212-788-6972
Rep from Staten Island's North Shore, an environmental justice community long burdened with polluted flood waters, multiple industrial hazards and the Spectra pipeline.
Chair of the Committee on Waterfronts, Member of the Progressive Caucus

Chaim Deutsch cdeutsch@council.nyc.gov or 212-788-7360
Rep from Brooklyn coastal district (Brighton and Manhattan Beach, Sheepshead Bay, Midwood)
Also a member of the Committees on Public Safety

Daniel Garodnick DGarodnick@council.nyc.gov or 212-788-7393
Rep from Manhattan's East Side
Also the Chair of the Committee on Economic Development (More jobs from wind than LNG!)

Paul Vallone district19@council.nyc.gov or 212-788-7250
Rep from Northern Queens flood-prone waterfront district (Whitestone to Flushing)

(Corey Johnson, the remaining member of the Waterfronts Committee, was one of the first cosigners on the reso. Please say thanks: District3@council.nyc.gov)

Here's a complete running count of who's signed and who hasn't.

Next Week is Earth Week

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Sunday, April 19th: Earth Week is always a busy time for us and this year will be no exception. Look for our red tent in Union Square, 11am-4pm (where there'll be all kinds of food, music and activism!) Can you spare an hour to volunteer? We'd love your company gathering petition signatures, helping people write postcards against Port Ambrose, and generally having a good time!

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April 20th marks the fifth year since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 people and dumped more than one hundred million gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Gulf South Rising is calling for action, and Rising Tide is amplifying that call - join us for an 8:00 AM procession in Manhattan in solidarity with the people of the gulf whose communities and lives have been destroyed to make the wealthy even richer. BP lies and says this is over. It’s not over. We haven’t forgotten.

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April 21st Rising Tide is teaming with Sane Energy Project to call for creative direct action against the Port Ambrose, in solidarity with New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities who are fighting the Constitution Pipeline, the AIM Pipeline, oil trains, pipelines and barges along the Hudson River, and too many other destructive projects. Governor Cuomo has the power to stop Port Ambrose, and we call on you to gather at his office: 633 Third Avenue (at 41st street) at 5:00 PM – and demand that New York stops building new fossil fuel infrastructure.

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April 22nd marks the release of PlaNYC (New York's official climate action plan). Join us to demand a new way forward for our energy system and economy. We must change, and justice demands that workers, low income communities and communities of color, who have disproportionately suffered under the old system, be at the forefront of that change.

Save the date: April 29th Hearing on "Lights Out"

Please attend the City Council hearing on the "Lights Out" bill (Int. 0578-2014) which will require businesses to turn off the lights after hours when they are not in use. If passed this bill will affect 40,000 buildings, reduce light pollution at night and save as much as 10% of the energy used in the City! This is the kind of no-brainer law we can all agree on--Paris has already done this. (If the City of Lights turns out its lights, so can we!) Obviously this initiative would reduce air pollution and move us quickly towards the goal of reducing greenhouse gases 80% by 2050. More importantly it would remind New Yorkers that conserving energy is the easiest way to reduce energy use. (The cheapest energy is the energy never used.) Not only that, our many avian-loving friends will applaud its effect on reducing bird kills. Historic buildings that are part of our iconic skyline would be exempted. 1pm on April 29th, in the Committee Room of City Hall.

Help us stop Port Ambrose!

Want to make sure Sane Energy Project has the resources we need to keep at it? Please help our efforts to build an on-the-ground grassroots movement with our Long Island, NYC and Upstate allies, with your tax-deductible donation. Even a $15 donation is a big help, and larger donations make a huge difference in what we are able to accomplish. Thanks a ton!

-Kim, Patrick & Clare

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