The Newsletter for the Movement for
Economic, Climate, and Racial Justice
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As ICE targets student activists protesting the genocide in Gaza, like Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi, our movement must build coalitions that fight across all issues. From the attack on immigrants to rampant militarism to the rising cost-of-living, we can no longer be a single issue movement because working class New Yorkers face multiple, overlapping crises. When Trump attacks offshore wind, he destroys union jobs and climate progress. When Trump attacks migrants, he attacks our right to protest and a vision for a multiracial democracy. We have no choice but to be intersectional in our response. This past weekend, thousands marched in the streets for Earth Week to say: ICE out of New York and New York out of fossil fuels. We are fighting for a world that works for all of us, not Big Tech, Big Pharma, or Big Oil who serve a racist, billionaire agenda. The people outnumber the CEOs. Working class solidarity is the way forward.
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Thousands of New Yorkers marching in the Protect Migrants, Protect the Planet rally and march
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Don’t Trash Our Neighborhoods
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This week, our Transform Don’t Trash (TDT) coalition rallied at City Hall to call for clean air, safe streets, and good jobs. We’re calling for the Department of Sanitation to stop delaying the reforms to the dangerous and unruly commercial waste industry now. After a four year fight, TDT won major reforms in the commercial waste industry in 2019 with the Commercial Waste Zones law that would increase worker protections, decrease dirty truck pollution, and make our streets safer. Unfortunately, more than 5 years after the law passed, just one commercial waste zone has been implemented — a pilot program introduced in Queens in January 2025. Delays mean more pollution, more serious and fatal crashes involving trucks, and more grueling night shifts and dangerous conditions for workers. Our communities deserve better.
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Governor Hochul's proposal for a mask ban in the NYS budget is an attack on our civil liberties, public health, and people with disabilities. The proposal is allegedly to protect New Yorkers from “harassment”, but we don’t buy this rhetoric. There is no coincidence that this proposal comes after a wave of legislators and universities across the country are proposing mask bans explicitly to silence activists protesting the war in Gaza. A mask ban will also be disastrous for public health. According to the CDC, over 450 New Yorkers died of COVID in 2025. Thousands of immunocompromised New Yorkers rely on masks to protect them for lifelong harm, and even death. In the height of the COVID pandemic, ALIGN led the fight to win PPE, infectious disease standards, and worker safety committees with the NY HERO Act. A mask ban would be a step back for public health and safety. You can read our statement on the mask ban here.
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Executive Director Theodore Moore with Activist Stacy Abrams at the launch of the Labor Institute of Advancing Black Strategists in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Jenille Scott, Climate Director, at the Just Transitions Summit at the Scontras Center.
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Climate and community organizations rally for climate justice and lower utility bills with the NY HEAT Act.
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Faiza Azam joins CUNY Hunter College Inaugural Sustainability Summit
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