Archive of Ashley Dawson

The compound crises of long-term environmental pollution, decades of economic disinvestment, and a pandemic proving especially deadly for working-class people forced to congregate indoors at home or on the job, make for a deadly intersection in a handful of New York City neighborhoods. The hot city is quite literally a killer.

To win public support for the cause of energy transition, People’s Power campaigns need to develop radical new forms of energy democracy, ones that involve equitable popular access and governance directed to the needs of those who have borne the toxic brunt of fossil capitalism.