Dual Power - Building a movement for the abolition of fossil capital and the construction of public

Dual Power Building a movement for the abolition of fossil capital and the construction of public renewables Ashley Dawson 107 Members of the Public Power campaign got the news the day after May Day: the New York State legislature had passed the Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA). [...] The labelling of the Earth Liberation Front as an eco-terrorist group and their hunting down by the FBI in the 1990s and early 2000s exemplifies a history of criminalisation that is a serious dampener to acts of fossil sabotage. [...] Particularly exemplary of such tactics is the Strike MoMA campaign, which targeted the oil-soaked elites on the board of directors of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) through a series of weekly protest and educational events.163 In tandem with critiquing – and eventually dismantling – the oiligarchy and their cultural hegemony, we need to expand the movement for public power. [...] While the campaign was aware of the consequent need to promote energy efficiency, we did not include such measures in the BPRA both because of the need to keep the legislation focused, and because the state already had trend-setting energy efficiency legislation on the books. [...] 115 What is the future for public power campaigns in Maine and in other parts of the US? Public Power campaigners cannot allow the defeat of the referendum to shut down our work.