A delegation from NYSNA was early on the ground in North Dakota to bring solidarity and supplies to courageous indigenous activists resisting the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline at t
NYSNA President Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN led a trip September 8-10 to deliver NYSNA ponchos, cell phone charges, and messages of solidarity to the hundreds of Indigenous nations participating in the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation’s resistance to the Dakota Acc
Owing to a local factory that makes Teflon, the municipal water in Onondaga County’s Hoosick Falls is polluted with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) – more than 50 times the acceptable level.
In 2015, NYSNA signed onto the Climate Works for All platform, which details ten bold proposals to make our city more resilient, create good jobs, and cut New York City's annual greenhouse gas emissions.