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Coalition which won fossil fuel #divestment of #NewYork State pension fund & NYC pensions. Teachers' Retirement System is next! #DivestNY #divest

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Joined January 2020
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Thank you @alroker for explaining that #climatechange played a significant role in the flooding in Texas on @TheTodayShow this morning! #sayclimatechange #endclimatesilence #climateaction #climateactionnow @ClimateReality @NYRenews @DoctorVive
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Today, we re-launch our campaign to take on billionaires and the political status quo. Whether you live in the new TN-09, the old TN-09, or anywhere that our systems have failed you, I’m running for Congress for all of US. We are still here. And we’re going to WIN!
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We stopped a billion dollar company’s proposed oil pipeline from polluting our drinking water. Now, we’re fighting just as hard to stop the health impacts of Elon Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis. I’m taking that fight to Congress w/ the support of @AOC & @BernieSanders
Memphis is home to Elon Musk’s data center empire — and the polluting turbines xAI uses to power them appear to be making residents sick. Justin Pearson has been leading the fight against them, and is now running for Congress to elevate the fight to protect his community. Pearson is running in a district that Tennessee Republicans just gerrymandered, but in sticking to his progressive working class values, and channeling the rage at xAI's noise, pollution, and lawlessness, he could pull off a historic upset.
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NY Comptroller DiNapoli’s refused to divest from oil & gas. Now, facing strong candidates who favor that, he says he’s now considering divestment from one oil company. That’d be tiny stuff AND he’s promised divestment b4, only to balk.🙄 Vote @RajGoyle!!! renews.biz/111485/new-york-p…
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BREAKING: We are in Houston, where 8 Frontline Texans have just been arrested for blockading the entrance to CERA Week, the world's premier oil and gas conference. This building is full of the men torching and poisoning our communities for profit. We must resist.
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BREAKING: Young people arrested while protesting the nomination of Chris Wright. We all deserve a government that works for our future, not greedy CEOs and their profits, and our generation is going to keep showing up until we get it.
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Carbon capture has been used as a justification for new #oilandgas projects. It is no solution for a climate-constrained world. via @Robert_Hunziker hubs.li/Q02-MyP10
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Now we have to convince @NYSComptroller @TomDinapoli to stand up to fossil fuel companies and #DivestNY Common Retirement Fund. And we need the teachers (@NYSUT, @UFT) to push #NYSTRS to divest as well.
$285 billion in assets under management—today @NYCComptroller @bradlander says not a dime of future investments will go to private equity funds that put money into fossil fuel pipelines, refineries, LNG terminals or any other midstream or downstream fossil fuel infrastructure 💣
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Replying to @GovKathyHochul
@GovKathyHochul #ClimateCantWait. We need you to lead in the necessary transition to renewables. #RenewableHeatNow.
240+ orgs are joining together to demand @GovKathyHochul help New York households accelerate the transition to clean energy technology, which would improve air quality, lower bills, and reduce climate pollution. Read more: beepny.org/ #RenewableHeatNow #NYHEAT
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We were delighted to have @billmckibben join us today in calling out @TIAA for their massive $78B in fossil fuels and for their toxic industrial farming as well. #TIAADivest #ClimateWeekNYC
As long as we’re in New York we might as well remind the rogue investors at ⁦@TIAA⁩ that we know how much damage they’re doing to the planet and its people
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This pipeline is owned by Energy Transfer, the greedy company that raked in $2.4 billion during the Texas freeze blackouts. They donated over $5 million to Trump in 2024 and wrote Greg Abbott a $1 million check. Once again, it's profits over people.
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4 years ago @Citi reported that racism cost the US $16 trillion. Today we put out a report showcasing the environmental racism that @Citi furthers through its financing of polluting gas and plastics companies in Texas & Louisiana. ➡️ fossilfreeciti.org/2024/09/1… #ClimateWeekNYC
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BREAKING: At 9AM, 29 elders were arrested for blockading the HQ of @Citi, the world's largest funder of fossil fuel expansion since the Paris Agreement. At 1230PM, 40 more elders were arrested for blocking the doors of the same HQ. Now that's how to be an elder #SummerofHeat
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"The Summer of Heat on Wall Street" has climate activists demanding that "Wall Street to stop funding the oil, coal, and gas projects that are driving the climate crisis and the related widespread floods, wildfires, deadly air pollution, mass drought, and forced migration..."
BREAKING: Citibank staff punches peaceful climate activist in the face for taking video. He was taken to the hospital bleeding. @Citi keeps proving their violent business is rooted in violent people. This can't go on.
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"The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels. Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout." @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres | #ActOnClimate #climate #energy
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YES! Pressure is growing on @GovKathyHochul to pass the Climate Superfund Act. Seriously: the *Republican* Governor of Vermont let their bill go into law. Why is Hochul blocking it in New York? Whose side is she on? Let's #MakePollutersPay.
Today, dozens representing organizations across the climate movement protested outside of @GovKathyHochul’s office. As temperatures are boiling, the fossil fuel industry is taking in record profits— @GovKathyHochul must sign the #ClimateSuperfund Act and put people over big oil.
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It’s time for big business to pick a side: Citi and fossil fuels or climate activists and a livable future for us all. Tell Citi’s Largest Credit Card Clients: Drop Dirty Citi! #SummerofHeat Sign our petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
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Very pleased to join last night's Climate, Jobs, and Justice Town Hall in NYC. There is not a moment to lose in confronting the existential crisis of climate change, and setting New York on a path to a more affordable, prosperous, healthy, and stable future. 📷: @KenSchles
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