{"id":79668,"date":"2025-11-12T15:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=79668"},"modified":"2025-11-12T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T14:41:13","slug":"what-mamdani-win-tells-us-transport-jobs-rent-childcare-world-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/79668\/what-mamdani-win-tells-us-transport-jobs-rent-childcare-world-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Mamdani\u2019s win tell us about the world we are living in – and the world we must build together?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Participants in the People’s Climate March make their way through the streets of New York City. The march was billed as the largest climate march in history.
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Job displacement<\/a> and informality<\/a>, low wages, high rents, rising food prices<\/a> and energy bills. Soaring costs and financial squeeze are the reality of working families in many cities around the world. They threaten the ability of people to meet our very basic necessities like housing, energy and water costs, childcare, public transport. They also undermine healthy functioning of the economy. They show us, in no uncertain terms, that there is something inherently wrong with the system we are living in.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Zohran Mamdani\u2019s win in the New York mayoral elections<\/a> didn\u2019t happen by chance in the city with a GDP that rivals entire countries<\/a> and that reportedly hosts the majority of the world\u2019s billionaires<\/a>. New York City has an immensely diverse workforce \u2014 a great part of which is made of low income essential workers, often immigrants and people of colour employed across the various sectors that keep the economy alive.<\/p>\n\n

Mamdani’s campaign and political agenda echo and are a reflection of the voice of the working class. Previous US political leaders have largely ignored the power and relevance of this segment. Not only for, as it does in many contexts, making up the majority of the voter turnout, but also as an essential part of what maintains the foundations of a functioning economy running. A refreshing, youth-led, progressive democrat politics is emerging: one that puts people first. They campaign for ideas that were, until recently, inconceivable for a mayoral candidate in the world\u2019s richest city to campaign for: from police reform to trans rights, from city subsidised groceries to the taxation of the wealthiest.<\/p>\n

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