Assembly Member @sarahana.bsky.social is a fierce advocate for the Nepali community and a champion for working people across New York State.
I'm honored to have her endorsement and ready to work with her in Albany towards the affordable New York that workers deserve.
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Great article from Benjy Sachs on the fight for public power and the strategy from below in Hudson Valley with @sarahana.bsky.social representing @mhvdsa.bsky.social and her community in the legislature!
Features @lucyhoch.bsky.social of @publicgrids.org & Winston Yau of @cplusc.bsky.social!
The assault on Iran, and the CIA-backed coup of 1953, are fronts for a permanent war economy.
✅ Every nation has the right to self-determination
❌ No country has the right to bomb children
❌ Wars & sanctions are not tools of democracy
Full statement: bit.ly/iran-103
The murder of Renee Good at the hands of a masked ICE agent isn't an exceptional occurrence, it is the perfect culmination of an organization designed to inflict violence and institutionalize hatred. Our task at hand is to build a movement that can break this culture and institutionalize solidarity!
Central Hudson was on Radio Kingston last week claiming that a public takeover would increase the bills by 36%. Here's my response, and release your study!
Watch the full interview in Spanish and English here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=07FJ...
Brian Niccol, the Starbucks CEO, is the type of person who'd rather set dollar bills on fire than pay workers what they deserve—and who doesn't really believe in our labor laws. Proud that a Starbucks location in my district is one of the few that's unionized! #NoContractNoCoffee
Investor-owned utilities historically ask for 200% of what they think they can get. Central Hudson claims their price tag is $7 billion, which is how we know NewGen's estimate of $3.5 billion is probably correct. hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
At a statewide @nywfp.bsky.social meeting to talk about two of my favorite topics in the Working Family Guarantee: affordable housing and affordable energy
It's not every day that public power makes the NYT, but I have a feeling it's going to happen again and again. Corporate utilities pushed us apart & into crisis, and it's going to take something new to bring us back together & get us out.
Without public ownership, we won’t address energy affordability and we won’t get our aging grid to the 21st century. Our bill to replace Central Hudson Gas & Electric will start saving millions in Year 1!
Read about it in the NY Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...
🔔 GOOD NEWS today from a grassroots campaign in the Hudson Valley that's trying to permanently bring down the price of their light bills with public power! Check out the full details and get involved in this campaign with @sarahana.bsky.social and @mhvdsa.bsky.social
It's been so fun to see Hudson Valley for Public Power at work. They understand the moral stakes of this moment. They're strategic. They're organized. And now, they've got the data — public power will save millions! Definitely worth digging into the whole report from NewGen.
Public ownership of our energy utility, Central Hudson, is not an end, it’s the means—to keep rates low, empower workers, and get us a 21st century grid. A new study estimates it would also save us money immediately!
hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com/feasibility/
Abc7 headline: “Gas explosion causes collapse at nycha bronx apartment building”
A tragedy. 😢
But it’s a MAN-MADE disaster of disinvestment & neglect.
@governor.ny.gov Hochul refuses to tax the rich and to put in the money needed to fix up NYCHA and take it off fossil fuels.
NY Sen. Gustavo Rivera @sarahana.bsky.social #LivableNY act would FIX THIS.
Hochul: do your job!
Outside the building that blew up protesters hold signs a speak to media
A day after the corner of their building blew off in a gas explosion, Mitchel house residents & NYCC protested @governor.ny.gov Hochul’s neglect of public housing.
@sarahana.bsky.social &Sen. Gustavo Rivera’s #LivableNY act would fix it: overhaul
and fix NYCHA & eliminate dangerous gas. #TaxTheRich
Such an inspiring and enriching conversation last night with @sarahana.bsky.social, @councilorgreen.bsky.social, @uniteoregon.bsky.social. Thanks @publicgrids.org for lifting up our social housing vision.
Don’t give up hope. We have a world to win!
Municipalities outside NYC shouldn’t have to conduct costly, legally vulnerable vacancy studies to prove an obvious housing emergency. Our bill, the REST Act, would allow the use of publicly available data. Here’s what our witnesses had to say about the legal implications:
It's a wrap! Over 600 people attended our six town halls this month, on why and how we want to replace investor-owned Central Hudson with a publicly-owned Hudson Valley Power Authority. We finished strong in Rosendale, with 200 attendees. hudsonvalleypowerauthority.com
poster of workers building wind turbines with headline: FOR GOOD UNION JOBS, BUILD PUBLIC RENEWABLES
🧵New York could have 25,000 union jobs building a future for the next generation.
Or we could let Kathy Hochul and Donald Trump pour pipeline poison on our planet.
So if you're in New York, send a comment at publicpowerny.org/take-action to ensure we're leading. On Labor Day, and every day. ⤵️
Hundreds have already attended our town halls on replacing Central Hudson with a publicly-owned utility. Last week we were in Rhinebeck, this week we’ll close it out in Rosendale, at 6 PM. See you there?
RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/hvpa-...
“Contrary to Assemblymember’s arguments, it would not be appropriate to consider any comparison of publicly-owned utilities in setting the returns of investor-owned utilities because publicly-owned utilities do not share the same risks of operations and they have access to funding that is unavailable to investor-owned utilities.” — department of public service
In DPS’ own words, publicly-owned utilities don't share the same risks as investor-owned utilities do, and they have access to funding that is unavailable to IOUs!
PSC’s approval of Central Hudson’s Joint Proposal shows that state regulation of investor-owned utilities is a sham for customers!
We must replace investor-owned utilities with publicly-owned community institutions. My full statement:
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
The only way to keep enegy rates as low as possible *and* bring an aging infrastructure up to date is to remove investors and their need for profits!
Join our town hall in Gardiner, Olive, Saugerties, Woodstock, Rhinebeck, or Rosendale. RSVP! bit.ly/hvpa-103
Central Hudson's grid is expensive and aging—we can replace it with one that's resilient and not for profit! Join us at a town hall to learn how public ownership can take the energy system out of corporate boardrooms, and put it in the hands of the people! bit.ly/hvpa-103
Join our EMERGENCY call on July 22, Tuesday, at 6:00 PM to learn more about the Congress tax and spending bill, its impact on New York, and how the state should respond! actionnetwork.org/events/ddd-o...
People are tired of hearing what they need is politically impossible. What they want is to be inspired to fight together for what we can win together. It's about time to embrace what’s obvious: that to beat the right we must build the left!
The break must be real. We cannot respond to these Medicaid cuts with the same old system of private insurers and corporations that mint money from our healthcare system—if we want to win, we must answer with nothing less than universal healthcare.
But we should've never arrived at this moment to begin with, and we have arrived at it because of the establishment’s failure to break from the neoliberal status quo that plunders our public goods, everything from labor to soil, to enrich the few.
The irony of it is almost too blatant to be real. Despite a posture against big govt spending, it puts $100 billion+ towards deporting immigrants, a price tag that doesn’t even include the disastrous impact these policies will have on our economy or the fabric of our communities.
