The new Roadmap for Clean and Affordable Energy for All was recently endorsed by over 135 community leaders from Filipino, Middle Eastern Christian, Jewish, Vietnamese, South Asian, Muslim and Pacific Island communities.
In the months leading up to a recent Sydney Alliance conference, organisers listened to stories from community members about their experience with expensive energy bills, bullying from energy retailers, living in energy inefficient properties, inadequate solar feed in tariffs (buy back rates), legal challenges against them, and the physical impacts of climate change in their countries of origin.
A Filipino single mother confessed that she hasn’t been able to turn on the heater during the colder months and a young Jewish student hasn’t been able to move out from her parent’s home because of unaffordable housing and electricity, so she has to commute long distances to her university.
Organizers then prepared the Roadmap for Clean and Affordable Energy for All, which was endorsed on the day by the motivated migrant community leaders.
The Roadmap aims to fix the system by putting energy affordability back on the government’s agenda and to build a clean energy future NOW. Specifically, the Roadmap calls for:
The leaders from the 7 migrant communities and Voices for Power campaign allies publicly committed to attend community organising training, meet with campaign leaders to learn more, join the research action or political engagement teams, lead conversations with community members or meet with decision makers over the next year.
It is clear that the Voices for Power campaign is being successfully lead by ethnically and culturally diverse leaders to find solutions to energy price and climate change problems confronting the members of their communities.
More information about the Voices for Power campaign can be found on the Sydney Alliance website.
The new Roadmap for Clean and Affordable Energy for All was recently endorsed by over 135 community leaders from Filipino, Middle Eastern Christian, Jewish, Vietnamese, South Asian, Muslim and Pacific Island communities.
In the months leading up to a recent Sydney Alliance conference, organisers listened to stories from community members about their experience with expensive energy bills, bullying from energy retailers, living in energy inefficient properties, inadequate solar feed in tariffs (buy back rates), legal challenges against them, and the physical impacts of climate change in their countries of origin.
A Filipino single mother confessed that she hasn’t been able to turn on the heater during the colder months and a young Jewish student hasn’t been able to move out from her parent’s home because of unaffordable housing and electricity, so she has to commute long distances to her university.
Organizers then prepared the Roadmap for Clean and Affordable Energy for All, which was endorsed on the day by the motivated migrant community leaders.
The Roadmap aims to fix the system by putting energy affordability back on the government’s agenda and to build a clean energy future NOW. Specifically, the Roadmap calls for:
The leaders from the 7 migrant communities and Voices for Power campaign allies publicly committed to attend community organising training, meet with campaign leaders to learn more, join the research action or political engagement teams, lead conversations with community members or meet with decision makers over the next year.
It is clear that the Voices for Power campaign is being successfully lead by ethnically and culturally diverse leaders to find solutions to energy price and climate change problems confronting the members of their communities.
More information about the Voices for Power campaign can be found on the Sydney Alliance website.