Just Transition

How the PRO Act Will Change U.S. Labor Law

Ted Franklin, System Change Not Climate Change, April 23, 2021

With the news that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin will co-sponsor the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, Labor and its allies are beginning to get a gleam in their eyes. Labor activists see the PRO Act as the key to building back a powerful labor movement.

This Is What the Beginning of a Climate-Labor Alliance Looks Like

Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, March 10, 2021

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.

Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry

Mark Paul, Carla Skandier, and Rory Renzy, The Next System Project, June 22, 2020

The authors have published the report "Out of Time: The case for nationalizing the fossil fuel industry," available in PDF format by clicking here.

Care and Repair: Left Politics in the Age of Climate Change

Naomi Klein, Dissent, May 18, 2020

Green New Deal protest march - Sunrise Movement

The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.

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.

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.

San Francisco Climate Strike Street Murals Take Over Wall Street West

David Solnit & Julie Searle, Common Dreams, September 28, 2019

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

Sandra Lindberg, July 11, 2019

“Not everyone is coming to the future,

Not everyone is learning from the past.”

Madonna & Quavo

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

Editors, SCNCC, June 3, 2019

On Tuesday, June 4, at 2 p.m. Pacific Time, three judges of the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments by the Trump Administration seeking to stop the Juliana v. United States lawsuit brought by a group of young people claiming a constitutional right to "a climate system capable of sustaining human life" and asserting that the United States government is violating that right.

An Ecosocialist Green New Deal: Guiding Principles

Democratic Socialists of America Ecosocialist Working Group, ecosocialists.dsa.org, March 3, 2019

From time to time, SCNCC endorses statements made by other groups that advance the principles we support. The statement by the Ecosocialist Working Group (EWG) of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is one such statement. We hope EWG's statement will gain wide support within DSA and that DSA will adopt its demands and EWG's firm stance against cooptation and watering down of the Green New Deal by the Democratic Party. Like the EWG, we see the Green New Deal as an arena for class struggle, not as a legislative initiative that we will support no matter what direction it takes.

Just Transition

The PRO Act is emerging as the left’s answer to a classic political tension.

The Green New Deal will need to be subject to constant vigilance and pressure—from experts who understand exactly what it will take, and from social movements that have decades of experience bearing the brunt of false climate solutions.

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