by BrendanS | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability today called for environmentalists and other allies of organized labor to support oil refinery workers who went on strike this week. Joe Uehlein, Executive Director of LNS, said, “Oil refinery workers are in the front line of...
by BrendanS | Jan 20, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Local Organizing, post, Reports
[Like other states, Connecticut has an electric system based on a one-way flow of energy from a central generating stations to consumers — and this model is now obsolete. It is failing to capture new opportunities for distributed renewable energy, and it is...
by BrendanS | Dec 18, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political...
by BrendanS | Oct 24, 2014 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, post
[Nurses are asking all Americans to sign a petition demanding protection for frontline health care workers who are protecting us all from the threat of Ebola. Tamanna Rahman and Brendan Smith tell us why.] As the Ebola outbreak continues to dominate headlines, so too...
by BrendanS | Oct 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement? On October 23, Alec Johnson, aka “Climate Hawk,” is scheduled to go on trial for locking himself to a construction excavator in...
by BrendanS | Sep 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post, Uncategorized
The rebellion to save planet Earth: The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have...
