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This Issue: Charter Reform Vote Update; Support NYC-EJA Fundraising
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NYC-EJA
is grateful New Yorkers approved Question 2 on Tuesday's ballot,
expanding the City's map to include all public and private waste
management and transportation facilities - thereby giving a more
accurate picture of a community's true environmental burdens. The
City's map is part of the Charter's "fair share" process, which
guides City agency decisions regarding the siting of City
facilities. Before Tuesday's vote, the City map was only required
to identify City-owned or operated facilities in local Community
Boards, thereby excluding all private, NYS or public authority
operated facilties. Neither City agency planners nor the public at
large had a single map with City, State, federal and private
facilties to examine before considering a City facility siting
decision.
For example, the map above identifies all private waste transfer
stations in NYC. Produced by the Municipal Art Society at the
direction of NYC-EJA, NY Lawyers for the Public Interest and
Organization of Waterfront Neighborhoods, the map shows clusters of
private transfer stations in Sunset Park, East Williamsburg and the
South Bronx - none of which would ever appear on a single City
map. After Tuesday's vote, City maps must now include facilities
like the ones shown above - prompting the expectation that City
agency planners will make fairer decisions, when given more
information. (For more on waste transfer stations and other
waterfront policies that encourage clustering of polluting uses in
communities of color, please visit our website www.NYC-EJA.org).
83% of New Yorkers who voted on the referendum questions supported
Question 2 (which included other Charter reform proposals). This
is an environmental justice victory years in the making, which
would not have been possible without NYC-EJA members and our
allies. If you have any questions, please contact NYC-EJA
Executive Director Eddie Bautista at nyceja@gmail.org
Fighting for cleaner and just communities - one block at a
time,
The NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
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NYC-EJA
Fundraising Campaign
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As
NYC-EJA approaches its 20th anniversary, we ask your help to
sustain our campaigns for environmental justice. Please help
NYC-EJA reach its fundraising goal of $5000 by November 30th.
Founded in 1991, NYC-EJA, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization, is
NYC's only federation of community-based organizations fighting for
environmental justice. From Election Day 2010's Fair Share victory
to equitable energy policies to solid waste to brownfield
redevelopment, NYC-EJA and its members have enjoyed an unparalleled
string of victories that have begun reversing decades of
environmental burdens and inequities for our most vulnerable
communities. (Please visit www.NYC-EJA.org to learn more
about our current campaigns and past accomplishments.)
But we need your help to continue our successes.
Your tax deductible online contribution at www.NYC-EJA.org
will support NYC-EJA's ongoing campaigns, including new challenges
posed by climate change. You can also mail a check payable to: New
York City Environmental Justice Alliance, 166A 22nd Street,
Brooklyn, NY, 11232.
Become an EJ Friend - $50.00
Become an EJ Ally - $100.00
Become an EJ Champion - $200.00 (our 200x200 campaign!)
Hasta la proxima,
Eddie Bautista
Executive Director
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