TONIGHT, April 18, 5:30 – Lower Manhattan
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New York, NY — This evening, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, water protectors, youth climate strikers, and community members will join the Stop the Williams Pipeline Coalition for a massive rally at City Hall before marching across the Brooklyn Bridge to demand Governor Andrew Cuomo stop the Williams “Northeast Supply Enhancement” (NESE) fracked gas pipeline before Earth Day and the May 16th DEC deadline.
The march comes a week after Donald Trump signed executive orders — which Cuomo deemed a “gross overreach” — attempting to expedite pipelines and block states’ decision-making power on such projects, including the Williams project. The New York City Council is expected to pass the monumental #ClimateMobilizationAct hours before tonight’s march.
New Yorkers testified against the pipeline at a City Council hearing on Monday, where utility executives with Con-Ed joined National Grid in threatening gas moratoriums if NESE isn’t built.
WHAT: Rally and march to stop the Williams fracked gas pipeline
WHEN: Thursday, April 18, 2019. 5:30pm: Rally and speakers begin; 6pm: March over Brooklyn Bridge kicks-off
WHERE: Rally at City Hall Park East (15 Centre Street), march over Brooklyn Bridge
WHO: Speakers include:
- Jumaane Williams, New York City Public Advocate
- Christine Nobiss, Plains Cree-Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada, Founder and Director of SHIFT
- LaDonna Brave Bull Allard (Ta Maka Waste Win-Her Good Earth Woman) Historian, Genealogist and Water Protector, enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Seeding Sovereignty Board member
- Alexandria Villasenor, 13 year old climate justice activist who co-organized the youth climate strike in New York City and has been striking from school at the UN every Friday for 18 weeks.
WHY: Williams is proposing a controversial “Northeast Supply Enhancement” (NESE) to send 24-miles of fracked gas pipeline from New Jersey into New York Harbor, passing a mile and a half from Staten Island and less than four miles from Rockaway Beach, the very communities most devastated and still recovering from Superstorm Sandy. This is in solidarity with communities across New Jersey urging Governor Phil Murphy to oppose the pipeline.
Opposition to the pipeline is widespread and growing, with over 60 elected officials, 16,000+ New Yorkers, and more than 250 organizations demanding Governor Cuomo commit to a Green New Deal and stop the Williams fracked gas pipeline.
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For more information, explore media pack and visit www.StopTheWilliamsPipeline.org
Organizing groups include: New York Communities for Change, Food & Water Watch, 350Brooklyn, 350.org, Surfrider NYC Chapter, Sane Energy Project, People’s Climate Movement NY, Seeding Sovereignty, Democratic Socialist of America Ecosocialist Working Group and more!
Contact: Lindsay Meiman, lindsay@350.org, +1 (347) 460-9082