[sustainable_tompkins-l] Rally to Support Contingent Faculty at Ithaca College - October 19th at 6

[Pete Meyers]

Within the past year, both Part-Time and Full-Time Contingent Faculty at Ithaca 
College (IC) unionized with SEIU200 United as their union. ('Contingent 
faculty' are non-tenure track college teachers. At IC, they earn poverty wages, 
receive no health benefits, and must re-apply for their job every year.) 
Negotiations have begun in recent months and both PTers and FTers have been 
very disappointed with initial proposals from the IC Administration. 

The Ithaca College Contingent Faculty Union is requesting a large community 
presence of support at a Rally at Ithaca College. The Rally will be this coming 
Wednesday, October 19th, at 6 p.m. at Free Speech Rock on the IC Campus, which 
is on the IC Quad near Campus Center. Please join the Tompkins County Workers' 
Center and many local unions who will be there in solidarity!

If you're able to make the Rally, please respond to this email, or sign-in to 
the Facebook event. Also watch the excellent 7 minute video created by students 
from IC Students for Labor Action for some of the reasons Contingent Faculty 
have unionized in the first place.
Says Full-Time IC Contingent Faculty Member, Megan Graham:
"The 19th is especially important because the Ithaca College Board of Trustees 
will be in town, and is going to be enjoying a fancy cocktail hour and dinner 
in the Campus Center at that time. We want to make it clear to them how 
important this issue is on campus and how much support we have. The more people 
we have at this rally, the stronger that message will be." 
"We are holding this rally with faculty, students, staff, and community allies 
because the administration has been stonewalling us in bargaining - asking for 
long dialogues that take up multiple sessions and then coming back with no 
counter-proposals. Our proposals on the most important topics - wages, 
benefits, and length of appointments for faculty - went unanswered for months, 
after which they hastily drew up a proposal offering a 0.25% wage increase from 
what they'd offered before (1.75%, for a grand total of 2% - not even enough to 
make up for our lack of cost of living increases the last six years). Suffice 
it to say, we walked out of bargaining. Now we want to demonstrate our strength 
and the strength of the community behind us to force them to come to the table 
with real proposals."
 1/3 of all faculty at IC are "part time", yet their salaries account for just 
1% of the college budget. IC Contingent Faculty are paid poverty wages, receive 
no health benefits, and must re-apply for their job every year. Many contingent 
faculty have trouble planning their lives and making ends meet.
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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Fwd: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman to turn herself in to North Dakota authorities

[Maura Stephens]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Erin Dooley >
Subject: Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman to turn herself in to North Dakota 
authorities
Date: October 13, 2016 2:02:29 PM GMT-04:00
Reply-To: Erin Dooley >




This morning on our live broadcast, Democracy Now! Host and Executive Producer 
Amy Goodman announced that she will turn herself in to North Dakota authorities 
at the Morton County jail on Monday, October 17 at 8:15 a.m. North Dakota time.

The charge in State of North Dakota v. Amy Goodman stems from Democracy Now!’s 
coverage of the protests against the Dakota Access pipeline. On Saturday, 
September 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the pipeline 
company attacking protesters. The report showed guards unleashing dogs and 
using pepper spray and featured people with bite injuries and a dog with blood 
on its mouth and nose.

Democracy Now!’s report went viral online, was viewed more than 14 million 
times on Facebook and was rebroadcast on many outlets, including CBS, NBC, NPR, 
CNN, MSNBC and the Huffington Post.

On September 8, a criminal complaint and warrant was issued for Amy’s arrest.

Ironically, in the state’s criminal complaint, North Dakota Bureau of Criminal 
Investigation Special Agent Lindsey Wohl, referencing the Democracy Now! video 
report in a sworn affidavit, stated, "Amy Goodman can be seen on the video 
identifying herself and interviewing protesters about their involvement in the 
protest." This is precisely the point: Amy was doing the constitutionally 
protected work of a reporter.

You can read our full media advisory 
here.

Over the next few days, we will keep you updated on developments related to 
this story. You can also visit 
democracynow.org
 at any time for the latest news.

Until then, thank you so much for your incredible support of our work, which 
every day helps us to cover the movements making history across the country and 
around the world. Freedom of the press ensures the public’s right to know. 
Journalism is essential to the functioning of a democracy society.

All our best,

Erin

PS - I also wanted to make sure that you saw Matt Taibbi's great piece 
published today by Rolling Stone. Click here to read his 
article—we'll
 keep you posted on other coverage as well.

--
Erin Dooley
Director of Development
Democracy Now!
T: (212) 431-9090 x8803





Democracy Now! 207 West 25th St 11th Floor New York, New York 10001 USA









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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Stop Additional Taxes to Bail Out Nukes

[Tony Del Plato]

Friends,

Governor Andrew Cuomo is moving forward with a plan to bail out old,
unprofitable nuclear power plants upstate to the tune of nearly $8 billion.
And he wants New Yorkers to pay for that bailout on their electricity
bills.

The governor says this move is about preserving jobs and fighting climate
change, but we know better. Our state deserves clean, affordable and
renewable energy. Governor Cuomo’s plan is like subsidizing the
horse-and-buggy industry while Henry Ford is rolling cars off the assembly
line. Nuclear energy is not our future -- it’s dirty, expensive and
dangerous.

Sign our petition to tell Governor Cuomo we don’t want another expensive
tax on our electricity bills to subsidize a dying nuclear industry.

[SIGN THE PETITION]

If we don’t act now to stop the Cuomo Tax, billions of dollars from hard
working New Yorkers will go straight to nuclear plant owner Exelon, a
Chicago-based Fortune 100 company with annual revenues over $34 billion.
That’s one of the reasons why more than 50 groups have joined together to
halt this disastrous plan.

I know we can win this fight and lead New York into a 21st century
renewable future. Our work to defeat the Cuomo Tax starts with this
important petition:

Add your name to the petition to stop the Cuomo Tax and end the nuclear
bailout.

Thank you,

Your Name Here

[SIGN THE PETITION]

-- 

*“Hope is not the optimism that things will turn out right. Hope is the
soul’s deep orientation to what is right, no matter how things turn out.”**
   -Vaclav Havel*

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[sustainable_tompkins-l] Local Solar Farm Comes to Ulysses!

[Sarah Kelsen]

LOCAL SOLAR FARM COMES TO ULYSSES!
RSVP & Share the event here: 
bit.ly/UlyssesSolarFarm

Renovus’ next community solar farm is coming to your neighborhood & we’re 
offering locals priority access.
Join us on Monday, Oct. 17th at 6pm at The Rongo in Trumansburg to learn more 
about the project & the benefits of community solar.



WHAT: Local solar farm comes to Ulysses!

WHEN: Monday, October 17th @ 6pm

WHERE: The Rongovian Embassy in Trumansburg, NY



Everyone can now choose solar. Your panels can live on our local solar farm, 
instead of on your roof. Don’t get us wrong, rooftop solar is a great choice if 
you have perfect conditions, but 80% of homes don’t. Community solar enables 
anyone who pays an electricity bill to go solar & reap all the benefits. Solar 
offers huge savings – never pay for electricity again! 



Calculate your estimated solar savings today, or sign up for your spot at: 
renovussharedsolar.com

—
Sarah J. Kelsen
Marketing, Renovus Solar
1520 Trumansburg Road, Ithaca, NY
(c) 607 882 3432
(o) 607 277 1777
www.renovussolar.com

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