‘Maintenance over profits’: Queens residents rally for public power

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More than three dozen Queens residents gathered at Rufus King Park in Jamaica to launch NYC Democratic Socialists of America’s (NYC-DSA) campaign for “Public Power” on Saturday, April 10.

NYC-DSA’s “Public Power” campaign aims to put New York’s energy system in control of the public rather than corporations like Con Edison and National Grid. To do that, the coalition is advocating for two bills, the N.Y. Build Public Renewables Act (NYPBRA) and the N.Y. Utility Democracy Act (NYUDA).