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Next Meeting July 13th

Please join us at our JULY MONTHLY MEETING! Thursday, July 13th, 7:30pm Commons Café, 388 Atlantic Ave ECONOMIST & POLICY ANALYST CHARLES KOMANOFF will speak about what carbon taxes are, how they work, the challenges of implementing them, and the critical role they play in arresting runaway climate change. We’ll also discuss how you can […]

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Rally June 29th!

Join us on June 29 to tell Senator Hamilton and the IDC that New York can’t wait for climate justice. While Donald Trump and his fossil fuel cronies have been dismantling the EPA and abandoning the Paris Climate agreement, our state legislature took no action on climate change. Despite devastating threats to our air, water, […]

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Urgent: Help Bring Bill S. 6617 To A Vote!

BREAKING: The New York State Assembly passed the Climate and Community Protection Act last night!!! Click here for a detailed article BUT this year’s legislative session ends tomorrow, and we need the SENATE to bring the bill to a vote! **PLEASE CALL SENATOR TONY AVELLA TODAY AT (518-455-2210)** and urge him to bring the bill […]

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Climate and Community Protection Act

This morning members of #350BK Legislative Committee, Kari Dietrich and Ari Lieberman, hand-delivered 75 signed constituent letters to the office of Senator Jesse Hamilton, urging a vote on the Climate and Community Protection Act. Unfortunately while the IDC has endorsed the Climate and Community Protection Act, they’ve still yet to bring it to a vote. […]

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Keeping up Pressure for CCPA!

There’s only one week left of the legislative session this year, so it is crunch time. All eight members of the IDC, the rogue group of Democrats that often caucuses with the Republicans, are co-sponsoring the Climate and Community Protection Act (CCPA; S 6617). Now is the time to put the pressure on them to […]

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Trump to pull out of Paris: Rally!

350 Brooklyn supports Mayor de Blasio’s new executive order recommitting New York City to the Paris agreement. But it recognizes that the order is not enough to ensure a just and sustainable future for city residents. New York City already has a law on the books committing to 80% reductions in climate emissions by 2050, […]

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Next Meeting June 8th

350Brooklyn Next Meeting:  Thursday June 8th 7:30 Join us at Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, for our June  General Meeting. Always lively, informative, and geared towards taking action! At the next monthly meeting learn about some awesome Brooklyn organizations that work for Climate Justice.  On June 8th we will focus on Intersectionality and the connections […]

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We Marched!

On Saturday April 29th, members of 350Brooklyn joined over 300,000 citizens and activists in a demonstration of  unity for jobs, justice, and climate action! It was a powerful and uplifting day, despite the 90-degree temperatures (no surprise there!). Here are some images from the day:

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Next Meeting May 11th

350Brooklyn Next Meeting:  Thursday May 11th 7:30 Join us at Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, for our May  General Meeting.   May 5-13 is Global Divestment Week.  We welcome Beta Coronel, the US Reinvestment Coordinator for 350.org, as our May meeting speaker. We will focus on getting New York to divest its holdings in the industry […]

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Why Brooklyn Will Be Marching

Why Brooklyn Will Be Marching On April 29 hundreds, even thousands, of Brooklynites will join a march in Washington for “Jobs, Justice, and Climate.” They are marching because the current powers in Washington deny that climate change is real. Here are five dangers that Washington policies pose for Brooklyn: Heat waves: The accumulation of carbon […]

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Next Meeting April 13th

350Brooklyn Next Meeting:  April 13th 7:30 Join us at Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, for our April  General Meeting.  Always lively, informative, and geared towards taking action!

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People’s Climate March Planning Meeting 3/21

(Rescheduled from March 14th) People’s Climate March Planning Meeting March 21, 7:30pm 330 Wythe Street, apt 5K rsvp: Legislation@350Brooklyn Trump and his climate denying cabinet have proven they are a dangerous threat to the planet. This meeting is to organize, recruit, and build the important act of resistance that is the People’s Climate March in […]

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Call Cuomo Mondays: Stop the Pilgrim Pipelines!

The Pilgrim Pipelines would carry explosive fracked oil along the New York Thruway and through six counties, from Albany to New Jersey, and return the refined products back north.  If constructed, the Pilgrim Pipelines would threaten the drinking water for millions of New Yorkers, risk the safety of dozens of communities, and promote fracking and […]

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Next Meeting: March 9

350Brooklyn Next Meeting: March 9 7:30 Join us at Brooklyn Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue, for our March General Meeting.  Always lively, informative, and geared towards taking action!

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April 29 People’s Climate March 2017: Get on the Bus!

350Brooklyn will be joining hundreds of thousands of other Americans in Washington, DC, in a march for Climate, Jobs, and Justice.  Busses will leave from Grand Army Plaza.  The faster we fill these busses, the more busses we’ll be able to schedule.  So buy your ticket now! Go to newyork.peoplesclimate.org and click on the Transportation […]

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Next Meeting February 9

Next Meeting, February 9, 7:30 pm Beginning in February, 350Brooklyn will move the monthly meeting to a new day, the second Thursday of the month.  And we will be meeting in a new place:  Brooklyn Commons.  Brooklyn Commons is located at 388 Atlantic Avenue between Bond and Hoyt Streets, close to many subway lines.  There […]

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Women’s March in NYC 1/21

March with Women for Climate Justice at the Women’s March in NYC Saturday, January 21, 2017, 12:00 PM Ralph Bunche Park 43rd St / 1st Ave. New York, NY Meetup Time for the Women for Climate Justice Contingent is 1pm. Join us as we walk to Trump Tower to deliver a powerful message to Trump […]

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#DayAgainstDenial

Step it up Chuck!  More than 300 turn out to join in the 350.org National Day Against Denial in front of Senator Charles Schumer’s Brooklyn home on on January 9th. Speakers including 350BK, Union local DC37, Food & Water Watch and Resist Spectra called on the Senate Minority Leader to block the nomination of   to […]

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Next Meeting January 17

January 17, 7:30: Monthly Meeting, 350Brooklyn.org Park Slope United Methodist Church 410 6th Avenue, Brooklyn Join us for our January meeting.  Our featured speaker will be Patrick Robbins from SANE Energy Project who will update us on the current state of play regarding building Offshore Wind in New York.  After the general meeting, committees will […]

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The End of the Line (Movie Screening)

January 13, 7:30: Film  “The End of the Line” Park Slope United Methodist Church 410 6th Ave, Brooklyn All are invited to this free screening of The End of the Line, the true story of a coalition of farmers, activists, constitutional conservatives and religious orders, who joined together and defeated the controversial Bluegrass Pipeline. Doors […]

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Day Against Denial

January 9, 7 pm:  Rally—Chuck, Step It Up! 9 Prospect Park West Rally to tell Senator Charles Schumer that we want him to ensure that Trump’s climate-denying nominees are denied confirmation.  Trump’s climate change deniers  include the CEO of Exxon, Rex Tillerson, who has spent his career sowing climate change doubt and raiding the future […]

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Divest New York City from Fossil Fuels!

New York City should immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuels and divest from direct ownership in any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds within 5 years. This is so crucial — it’s time to divest from destruction. Please sign! Read more…

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Dec 15 #DivestNY Action Recap

New Yorkers brave cold to turn up the heat on New York to divest from fossil fuels We <3 New York. That’s why, earlier today myself and 50 committed New Yorkers braved frigid December morning temperatures rallying outside the Manhattan Municipal Building representing pensioners, retirees, teachers, students, faith, and climate-impacted communities. We were there to […]

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Dec. 20th Bus from NYC: Tell LIPA it’s time for Offshore Wind!

Get on the bus! Tell the Long Island Power Authority: It’s time to decide! After many delays, LIPA is poised to vote on Tuesday, December 20th to purchase power from the South Fork wind area. This vote is the green light for the project to proceed — and, paired with the 5,000 MW commitment from […]

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NY Renews: the NYC Town Hall

Thursday, December 8, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM Friends Meeting House, 15 Rutherford Place , New York, NY 10003 Organizations from across NYC are coming together to transform New York: good jobs, climate justice, and 100% clean, renewable energy. Come make history with us! ***WE ARE IN A MOMENT OF CRISIS ON CLIMATE RIGHT NOW. […]

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