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No Coal No Gas builds on recent victory with focus on community and a new strategic target
The campaign that ushered in ‘the end of coal in New England’ has its sights set on fossil fuel power plants and reclaiming energy democracy. Earlier this year, the No Coal No Gas (NCNG) campaign won its major campaign demand: to close the last big coal plant in New England. NCNG has reissued our three campaign goals — with an update to the third — as follows: 1) build unity and community; 2) show what is possible; and 3) shut down all fossil fuel plants in New England. Activists know that change doesn’t happen through electoral politics, letters to the editor and rallies alone. They also know that when a group of people march across a bridge or occupy the halls of power, there are even more people behind the scenes involved in endless planning, calling, writing, investigating, driving, feeding, painting, sewing, conflict-mediating and thinking together. This is why “building unity and community” has been the campaign’s number-one campaign goal all along.