“We could decommodify clean energy and guarantee it to all New Yorkers as a human right, much in the same way we already guaranteed clean water through our public water utility,” said Amber Ruther, an organizer with NYC-DSA, during a recenthearingbefore the New York State legislature. the first day of classes following the university’s scheduled spring break that begins March 14.In a follow-up email to students Last month, at a rally outside the National Grid office in downtown Brooklyn, activists from groups like Stop the Williams Pipeline Coalition and the New York City Democratic Socialists of America spoke out against investor-owned utility corporations’ continued investment in gas pipelines. In particular, they’re angry about National Grid’s push for the highly contested,twice-denied Williams Pipelinethat would cut throughNew York Harborandproposed rate hikesfrom the two major utility corporations. to, as recently as October, stating that he would reverse the embargo if religious freedoms weren't accepted and political prisoners weren't set free in Cuba.