{"id":2359,"date":"2021-07-22T09:50:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:50:24","slug":"august-6-climate-protest-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"August 6 Climate Protest in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Colleagues,<\/div>\n<div>\n<div lang=\"en-US\">\n<div>\n<p>Join UUP and our coalition partners,\u00a0the New York Youth Climate Leaders,\u00a0<b>in Albany, on August 6th, at 1:30 PM in West Capitol Park<\/b>\u00a0(across from 89 Washington Ave) to participate in a rally\u00a0to protest the inaction on climate change and demand that the New York State Teachers\u2019 Retirement System divest from fossil fuel stocks.<\/p>\n<p>With the legislature passing ZERO ambitious climate bills this year, UUP has\u00a0stepped up\u00a0and joined\u00a0our\u00a0coalition partners\u00a0as\u00a0a\u00a0co-sponsor\u00a0for\u00a0the August 6, \u201cFossil Free Education, Fossil Free Future\u201d rally\u00a0to demand\u00a0change now.\u00a0We cannot allow the legislature to hide behind the CLCPA, claiming that they cannot pass additional climate legislation until the Climate Action Council releases its recommendations. These excuses are merely delay tactics, and they threaten the livelihoods of our generation and future generations. Additionally, with an estimated $4.5 billion invested in the fossil fuel industry, NYSTRS is doing their pensioners and the planet a disservice by continuing to invest in fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>You can check\u00a0<b>out bus availability,<\/b>\u00a0find more information about the rally, and\u00a0<b>register\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/events\/fossil-free-education-fossil-free-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b>.\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We will be sure to have signs and t-shirts on hand to distribute to all UUP members. So,\u00a0<b>after you register<\/b>, please send Danielle Judge,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:djudge@uupmail.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\">djudge@uupmail.org<\/a>\u00a0an email and let her know that you will be joining. We will pick a UUP member rally meet-up location (and time)\u00a0as we get closer to the event. That information will be shared with all who let Danielle know that you will be joining us on August 6 at 1:30 PM.<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<br \/>\nFred<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues, Join UUP and our coalition partners,\u00a0the New York Youth Climate Leaders,\u00a0in Albany, on August 6th, at 1:30 PM in West Capitol Park\u00a0(across from 89 Washington Ave) to participate in a rally\u00a0to protest the inaction on climate change and demand that the New York State Teachers\u2019 Retirement System divest from fossil fuel stocks. With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2360,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions\/2360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/cobleskill\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}