“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 leaving home under the San Francisco Bay...
An emergency plan to meet the climate emergency and “do what the science demands before it’s too late.” This is an abridged version of a paper that appeared in a special issue of the Real-World Economics Review. I. The IPCC...
China’s rapid economic expansion is based on massive state investment, low pay and manufacturing for export to the Western economies at the same time as the promotion of domestic consumerism. Global competition for resources and markets means China...
The Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) and Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN), along with other US-based members of the social, environmental and climate justice communities and global alliances have platforms calling for leaving 80% of the current...
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY – APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING In the run-up to the UNFCCC COP 21 in Paris set for December, the EJOLT team is happy to announce the 23rd EJOLT Report dedicated to widening the discussion on climate justice, “Refocusing...
From humanitarian and ecological viewpoints, many aspects of the capitalist economic system are irrational; although they are certainly rational from the more limited standpoint of the individual business or capitalist seeking to make profits. For...
When unionized oil workers at the Tesoro Golden Eagle plant in Martinez, California walked off the job on February 1 to demand safer working conditions, they received some unexpected company on the picket line. Since the beginning of the strike...
Dear Sam: I was pleased to receive and publish your response to my article, Once Again on ‘Environmental Catastrophism’. The left can only gain from frank and open discussion of our differences. But I’m concerned that we’re spinning our wheels...
Long before today’s scientists accepted the idea, socialist-ecologist Barry Commoner argued that there had been a qualitative change in humanity’s relationship with nature in the years following World War II. Going a step further he...
A very large and loud event is about to reshape New York City once again this September – and likely propel social change across the continent. A coalition of organizations under the banner of the “People’s Climate March“, has...