Buffalo DSA’s Response to Buffalo Niagara Partnership’s 2025 Advocacy Agenda
We are a volunteer effort of class-conscious Western New Yorkers who have researched and organized against the BNP.
Here’s what you need to know:
Buffalo-Niagara Partnership stands for expensive, private healthcare on behalf of their health insurance company donors and board members.
Universal, public healthcare is what we need as people, patients, caregivers, and workers.
Unlike the “Advocacy Agenda” states, the child tax credit is not a solution to the childcare crisis.
Groups who might be actually concerned about the workforce should use their political power to advocate for direct cash payments to families to help with childcare costs, and a universal childcare system of well-paid caregivers.
BNP warns about the”benefits cliff” that means-testing creates, while advocating against universal policies that would solve the problem.
The solution is a state that provides support to all of us and encourages shared responsibility.
They want blank checks for their friends to make superficial improvements to our city while our existing housing issues worsen.
What we need is Good Cause Eviction and measures for Rent Control to start. We ultimately need public, social housing and anti-discrimination in New York.
BNP’s genius development ideas include a push for Buffalo to take part in over-investment in Al centers that fry our power grid and have little potential for actual adoption, while opposing environmental progress.
Building a tech bubble locally is an oversight that will lead to job loss in the future.
We have all the productive capacity we need to thrive, but the power is held in the wrong hands.
BNP’s scarcity mindset around taxes, as well as desire to protect and expand the private sector at great cost to the public, reflects their elite members’ preferences – not the scale and potential of New York’s economy.
A better Western New York is possible – if we get educated, build the independence, and political courage to prioritize the needs of working people.
The Butlalo-Niagara Partnership is structurally incapable of undertaking, or even guiding, such a task.
Political leaders should be held to account for their collaboration with them.
Take action with us:
- Read our full reports and share our materials – we are a volunteer effort!
- Sign our Back Off, BNP open letter exposing the relationship between our local corporate elites and politicians!
- Use our tools to contact your rep and demand they bring universal healthcare to a vote in NY this year!
- Share your healthcare story with us. Lets flip the script on the corporate for-profit care industry.
- Union Members: Advance a resolution in your union to support universal healthcare.