Occupy Park Avenue

Hurricane Sandy ravaged the tri-state area nearly 10 years ago. Since then, instead of addressing the crisis, people got left behind… never helped, still hurting. 

Meanwhile, emissions keep climbing, driven by the extravagant lifestyles of the 1% and the greed of the biggest corporations. And as the rich keep getting richer off their plunder of people and planet, ordinary people can’t make ends meet.

Governor Hochul must tax the rich to pay for a statewide Green New Deal. Buildings are the top source of the state’s climate pollution, while rents and housing costs are out of control. With about $10 billion per year, New York State could fund a Green New Deal, taking all buildings off fossil fuels and creating deeply affordable housing for hundreds of thousands. 

 

The super wealthy are so filthy rich that just a 5% tax on the top 1 percent would raise about $10 billion per year. New York could slash pollution, create hundreds of thousands of good, union jobs, and deliver housing for hundreds of thousands of people.

We will commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy with sustained protests on Park Avenue to demand Hochul tax on the rich for a Green New Deal.

We will protest from Tuesday, October 25 through Saturday, October 29, the 10th anniversary of Sandy’s landfall in New York. Each day, we will highlight a corporation and CEO that is torching our planet and impoverishing our people. We will shut down Park Avenue. Daily. 

While many roles in these protests do not involve the risk of arrest, we are looking for as large a group of volunteers as possible to block Park Avenue, which may involve the risk of arrest.