by Ming | Jun 16, 2011 | Articles, Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our...
by Ming | Mar 29, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher To talk of climate change or not to talk of climate change — that is the question. For the last several years many of the biggest players in the climate movement have argued that to save the planet we need to purge the words...
by BrendanS | Jan 27, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
How Unions Can Help Secure a Binding Global Climate Agreement in 2011 By Sean Sweeney [Editor’s Note: The international trade union movement has given little-heralded but significant support for a deal that protects the earth’s climate while providing a...
by Ming | Nov 23, 2010 | Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Brendan Smith; Cross-Posted with HuffingtonPost.com] I am not an environmentalist. But all I think about these days is the climate crisis. I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun to realize what others have known for decades: The...
by Ming | Sep 20, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
As the global economy hurtles toward Great Recession II, the earth hurtles toward climate catastrophe. Both represent the results of a neoliberal deregulation that has left humanity no means to shape our economies to serve human needs — not even the need for...
by Ming | Jul 21, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
This month is the anniversary of a long-forgotten landmark in American history, the “Great Upheaval” of July, 1877. It may be surprisingly relevant today. The Great Upheaval was a movement widely portrayed as a violent rebellion. In the midst of a...
