Amazon and… Affordable Housing?
May 29, 2024
What one deceptive Amazon flyer can teach us about housing, equity, and holding corporations accountable.
What one deceptive Amazon flyer can teach us about housing, equity, and holding corporations accountable.
After a year of campaigning, canvassing, lobbying and marching, the Seattle City Council unanimously passed the Building Emissions Performance Standard.
Hundreds took to the streets to demand major climate action from Seattle City Leaders and marching on Amazon for opposing climate action.
Revenue returns from the 2020-approved JumpStart tax began to trickle in this past February: first $200 million, then $215 million, then finally, $231 million in projected revenue to support affordable housing, business assistance, community development, and Green New Deal policies for Seattle.
At its annual investor conference today, JPMorgan Chase released a new fossil fuel policy. It should be met with indignation, not praise.
For two years now, we’ve been campaigning to force JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank, to stop funding climate disaster. Here’s the story behind the campaign ― an overview of the problem we’re trying to solve, a history of what’s happened so far, and a preview of what’s coming next. We hope you’ll join
Fifteen months after the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to cease banking with Wells Fargo, it has renewed a three-year contract with the climate-wrecking bank. This is why we need a public bank.
Whether it was yet another police shooting, the war in Syria, or a pipeline protest, I felt powerless to make anything change. But Standing Rock seemed different, and events since then have confirmed that perception. It seems like the protest never died, just spread to other locations.
This is what it looks like when another one starts biting the dust! Thanks to overwhelming public outcry (including a great eight days in December), the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has sent PSE back to the drawing board, with a need for a greenhouse gas Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS). Their hubris intact, they continue to build (despite lacking key permits)….but make no mistake, the tide has turned.
If Puget Sound Energy hadn’t already gotten the message, they have now: they have a gas problem.