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Rail workers and environmentalists to teach each other

Ron Kaminkow, Labor Notes, February 4, 2015

With public attention focused on the railroads in a way it hasn’t been for decades, the cross-craft solidarity group Railroad Workers United is seizing the opportunity to teach the general public “railroading 101”—and teach rail workers “environmental politics 101.”

Meditations in a climate emergency

Cannery Collective, September 18, 2014

Meditations in a Climate Emergency from Hiram Becker on Vimeo.

Making a living on a living planet

Joe Uehlein, Common Dreams, August 27, 2014

On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America. They were barely becoming aware of an even greater threat, one that would determine the future of their country and their labor movement: the threat of Nazi armies mobilizing for war.

Climate campaign tipping point? Unions get on board

Jenny Brown, Labor Notes, July 21, 2014

A major climate change march in New York September 21 may be a tipping point for labor movement participation in global warming activism.

Climate initiatives are still controversial in the labor movement. But dozens of unions in New York, jarred by memories of Superstorm Sandy, have lined up to join the People’s Climate March, planned to coincide with a United Nations summit that will draw world leaders to the city.

We are building a just alternative to the UN Climate Summit this September

SCNCC with the Global Climate Convergence, June 19, 2014

Before corporate and governmental leaders arrive in New York City this September for the UN Climate Summit, System Change Not Climate Change together with the Global Climate Convergence will be laying the groundwork for an alternative summit, what we're calling New York City Climate Convergence.

Rank-and-file environmentalism

Trish Kahle, Jacobin, June 11, 2014

The “jobs versus environment” debate is often seen as a fundamental division between labor and environmentalists, most recently emerging in the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline.

New York's fateful choice: fracking or wind power

Steve Breyman, Howie Howkins, CounterPunch, June 3, 2014

New York State faces a fateful choice over its energy, environmental, and economic future.

It can chose a 21^st century upgrade to clean energy and create a sustainable prosperity that protects our climate, cleans our air, and revives our economy. Or it can continue to rely on a 19^th and 20^thcentury fossil fueled energy system that will leave it battered by climate change, poisoned by pollution, and economically stagnant while other states and nations pass it by as they adopt the new sustainable technologies of the 21^st century.

A call for unions in BC to defend the province’s and the world’s ecosystem

Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, VESG, May 29, 2014

Statement of the Vancouver Ecosocialist Group, May 28, 2014

Last month, four leaders of the main construction unions in British Columbia issued a statement in support of the Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline. The statement is signed by the Teamsters, Plumbers, Operating Engineers and Labourers’ unions. The text is enclosed below.

Breaking: Supersize sit-in at McDonald's HQ protests low-wages

SCNCC, May 21, 2014

One hundred and one employees from McDonald's outlets across the country -- together with approximately three dozen faith, community and labor leaders -- were arrested protesting at the franchise's annual shareholders meeting in Oak Brook, Illinois, Here's what McDonald's HQ looked like this afternoon:

Welcome to @McDonalds hq pic.twitter.com/2IS3cMAV8E

Coal's death tally goes far beyond Turkish mine

Chris Williams , May 19, 2014

Think about the last time you got to the top of a mountain one mile high. Now think about descending that distance below the surface of the earth, foot by dark foot, far below all life, light or oxygen. You go down there to dig.

What you’re digging for, deep in the hot, fetid, bowels of the earth, is carbonized life forms, millions of years in the making, turned to a type of rock that ignites and burns; one that your prime minister and energy analysts tell you will help the economic future of your country.

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