Learn about INT 1117 and 1116 that I introduced alongside Your People at UPROSE 🌻 to advance GRID 2.0 and a community-led vision for climate action: (1/2)

I'm excited to champion these pieces of legislation, which will benefit waterfront communities in NYC. (2/2)

Thank you to all the Your People at UPROSE 🌻 supporters & Atmos for lifting this important #climatejustice win ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽💚 atmos.earth/your-2024-clim…

If superstorm sandy, hurricanes Katrina, Maria & more didnt activate you - are the devastating fires in California & snow in the south landing- this is climate change & its not passive- this is a #ClimateEmergency 🌻

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." – Martin Luther King Jr. This #MLKWeekend, honor his vision by recommitting to the fight for justice—for people & the planet. 🌍🌻

CJA member group Your People at UPROSE 🌻 is being featured in The New York Times for their work to make New York City’s first cooperatively-owned community solar project a reality! Sunset Park Solar is a 685-kilowatt solar project that will be built on the Brooklyn Army Terminal rooftop.

In protest of Governor Kathy Hochul’s inadequate climate plan, EJ leaders Eddie Bautista, Elizabeth Yeampierre & Rahwa Ghirmatzion resigned from NY’s Climate Justice Working Group. They represent CJA member groups @NYCEJAlliance, Your People at UPROSE 🌻 & @PushBuffalo.🔥 ny1.com/nyc/all-boroug…

“Our people have survived all kinds of things—our ancestors have, our parents have. We're going to be the people we've always been: creative, resourceful, solution oriented—and we are not going to be fearful.” - Elizabeth Yeampierre, Your People at UPROSE 🌻 time.com/7210631/elizab…

80+ orgs, businesses, faith groups & unions in NY just wrote to Governor Kathy Hochul to ask she release draft Cap-&-Invest regulations ASAP. Why? 👀Dep. Director Environmental Advocates NY & Dep. Director @NYCEJAlliance take to Capital Tonight to talk all that's at stake bit.ly/40TVCa7

Environmental justice advocates and champions are gathered outside City Hall to ahead of the hearing for my bills INT 0107 and 1130 to establish an indirect source rule in NYC.

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🌎 Happy Earth Day! The time to act for climate justice is now. In the midst of climate change denialism and efforts to roll back progress, we can never forget the people power that fuels us. Future generations, and frontline communities now, are counting on us. #EarthDay2025

If you're in the Brooklyn area, you're invited to join #SerendipityLit author/illustrator Patrick Dougher this Saturday, June 14th, at Your People at UPROSE 🌻 for a special Juneteenth event! RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/a-walk-throu… Out now from Little, Brown and Co.

Congratulations to the Class of 2025 and our District 38 Excellence in Leadership Award Recipients! Felicitaciones a todos los graduados de la clase de 2025 y a los ganadores de nuestro premio de liderazgo por demostrar excelencia académica! More awardees to follow!

I joined w/ NYS Senator Julia Salazar, 6 other electeds, & Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Action New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) Make the Road NY 🦋 NYC-DSA 🌹 + others to help guide people safely out of immigration court. ICE has continued to escalate their unlawful attacks within our court. We must keep paying attention to these violent attacks.

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“People are starting to realize that the solutions are hyper-local and that their relationships with each other are going to be central to us being able to survive the next big storm.” bit.ly/3TXWUy8

Catch the broadcast premiere of “Emergent City” on Monday, August 18 at 10PM on PBS (check local listings). #EmergentCityPBS #POVonPBS Your People at UPROSE 🌻 loom.ly/B28JX-g

In Brooklyn, NY, Your People at UPROSE 🌻, a CJA member group, is proving that community power can deliver real victories. We’re celebrating the construction kick-off of Sunset Park Solar—New York City’s first-ever community-led solar project—on the rooftop of the Brooklyn Army Terminal.