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Strike for Your Life!
Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability | April 2, 2020
There have been more than a dozen strikes in the past two weeks by workers striking to protect themselves against infection by the coronavirus. They have already won increased... read more

Beyond Cabin Fever: The Left Confronts COVID-19
Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change | March 30, 2020
“Let the virus not infect our souls,” pleaded the message on the church sign in my neighborhood. “Let the virus not stop our organizing,” I silently responded. One of the few recognized excuses for... read more

The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization
Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism | March 29, 2020
The Coronavirus pandemic (endnote 1) underscores how infectious diseases are presenting the fourth existential threat to humanity. All are caused by the crisis of the anthropocentric industrial... read more

Flags fly at the Oceti Sakowin Camp in 2016, near Cannonball, North Dakota

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge Strikes Down DAPL Permits
Press Room | Earthjustice | March 25, 2020
"This validates everything the Tribe has been... read more

A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress
Joanna Bozuwa, J Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodwin, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, Raj Patel, Thea Riofrancos | Medium | March 24, 2020
If you agree with us, please click here to sign onto our letter. As a nation we face three converging crises: the COVID19 pandemic and the resulting economic recession... read more

Demonstrators at Joe Biden rally the night before Michigan primary - Credit Fox2 Detroit

Joe Biden's Sketchy Climate Record
Kate Aronoff | The New Republic | March 10, 2020
Biden's attempt to take undeserved credit for the Paris Agreement only scratches the surface of his questionable decisions as vice president. On Super Tuesday, Joe Biden did relatively... read more

Planet to Win: An Interview with Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen
Daniel Denver | The Dig | January 15, 2020
Daniel Denver of The Dig interviews Thea Riofrancos and Daniel Aldana Cohen, co-authors with Kate Aronoff and Alyssa Battistoni of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. The Dig podcast goes... read more

SCNCC Perspectives & Guest Commentaries

Beyond Cabin Fever: The Left Confronts COVID-19

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism

A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress

Joanna Bozuwa, J Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodwin, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, Raj Patel, Thea Riofrancos | Medium

Book Review: Into the Tempest: Essays on the New Global Capitalism

David Klein | Climate and Capitalism

Protest Outside a Hong Kong Police HQ | Iris Tong - VOA.

“We’re all Hong Kongers now”

Richard Smith | System Change Not Climate Change

Sheet Metal Workers Belt Buckle | credit: coolbuckles.com

Blue Collar Workers: Let's Support the Green New Deal

Steve Morse | System Change Not Climate Change

What To Do About Predictions of Imminent Food Collapse

Sandra Lindberg | System Change Not Climate Change

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors | SCNCC

What Do Eco-Socialists Have to Say About the Climate Movement?

Nancy Romer | New Politics

Is there still time to stop climate catastrophe?

Phil Gasper | SocialistWorker.org

IPCC Report: First Thoughts on Next Steps

Sydney Azari | Medium.com

The Limits of Green Energy Under Capitalism

David Klein | truthout.org

Scientists propose changing the rules of history to avoid environmental collapse

University College London | Phys.org

Trump’s war on science

Cliff Connor | Socialist Action

The Sea Level Threat To Cities Depends On Where The Ice Melts — Not Just How Fast

Christopher Joyce | NPR

Ice Apocalypse

Eric Holthaus | Grist

Scientists Issue Dire Warning on Climate Change & Key Researcher Urges “Changes in How We Live”

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

Abrupt Climate Justice

John Foran | Resilience

The Coronavirus Pandemic as the Crisis of Civilization

Kamran Nayeri | Our Place in the World: A Journal of Ecosocialism

A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress

Joanna Bozuwa, J Mijin Cha, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Billy Fleming, Jim Goodwin, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Daniel M Kammen, Julian Brave NoiseCat, Mark Paul, Raj Patel, Thea Riofrancos | Medium

On Fire This Time

John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review

Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism

An Interview | Rebel, The New Socialist Website (Ireland)

Stopping Climate Change Will Never Be "Good Business"

Paul Fleckenstein | Jacobin

Climate Emergency Declarations Guarantee Nothing; We Need Total System Transformation for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

Sandra Lindberg |

Making the Green New Deal Real

Dianne Feeley | Solidarity

Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change

Richard Fidler | Life on the Left

Rethinking Approaches to Climate Change

Richard Fidler | Life on the Left

Strike for Your Life!

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West

David Solnit & Julie Searle | Common Dreams

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams

Ian Angus on the Politics of Ecosocialism

An Interview | Rebel, The New Socialist Website (Ireland)

Blue Collar Workers: Let's Support the Green New Deal

Steve Morse | System Change Not Climate Change

Teachers at The Accelerated Schools, a community of public charter schools in South Los Angeles picket outside the school on second day of the Los Angeles school teachers strike on January 15, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.

Why Unions Must Bargain Over Climate Change

Nato Green | In These Times

A Green New Deal for American Labor?

Saurav Sarkar | Labor Notes

New Deal Soil Conservation Postage Stamp

Beyond the Green New Deal

Max Ajl | The Brooklyn Rail

What Is The Climate Equivalent of “Medicare For All”?

Nathan J. Robinson | Current Affairs

Strike for Your Life!

Jeremy Brecher | Labor Network for Sustainability

Global Climate Strike September 20-27, 2019

| 350.org

"All eyes of the world are on Juliana" - Tune in Tuesday

Editors | SCNCC

March Against Death Alley | Photo by Julie Dermansky for DeSmog Blog

Breaking: Environmental Justice March Hits Road Block in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley

Julie Dermansky | DeSmog Blog

New Calls for a General Strike in the Face of Coming Climate Catastrophe

Joe Maniscalo | Labor Press

COP24: No Response to the Crisis

Nadja Charaby, Maria Theresa Lauron, Till Bender, Katja Voigt, Tadzio Müller and Alanah Torralba | The Bullet

Sunrise Movement in the Halls of Congress

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

Ted Franklin | System Change Not Climate Change

Singers perform at the Extinction Rebellion rally in London, England, on October 31, 2018. Kay Michael / Extinction Rebellion

The Global Extinction Rebellion Begins

Dahr Jamail | TruthOut

Fracking protestors jailed by UK 'Banana Monarchy' judiciary

Allan Todd | London Green Left Blog

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Prevails as Federal Judge Strikes Down DAPL Permits

Press Room | Earthjustice

A Real Extinction Rebellion Means the End of Colonialism, Imperialism, and Capitalism

Jessica Garraway | Common Dreams

Native rights and resistance after Standing Rock

Nick Estes and Ragina Johnson interviewed by Khury Petersen-Smith | Socialist Worker

Groundbreaking “Carbon Pricing Report” Released by Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance at COP 23

Jade Begay | Common Dreams

Will You 'Promise to Protect'? Coalition Urges New Wave of Resistance to Stop KXL

Jake Johnson | Common Dreams

Carbon Pricing: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance

Indigenous Environmental Network and Climate Justice Alliance |

Special Report: Revolt at Trump’s Pro-Coal, Pro-Nuclear & Pro-Gas Panel Rocks U.N. Climate Summit

Amy Goodman | Democracy Now!

LIVE: GENEVA SWITZERLAND / DIRECT ACTION @ Credit Suisse

Oil pipeline opponent uses 'necessity defence' - What is it?

CP | CFJC Today

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Uprisings, rallies, meetings, and marches are livelier when graced with song. This book of new lyrics for familiar songs is the Bay Area women's singing group Occupellas's contribution to the ecosocialist canon. It's a free download. Song has been an important part of every people's movement that has ever won.

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