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EcoUnionist News #9
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 13, 2014
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Dispatch From Lima: Climate Justice At COP20 - By Chris Eaton, Rising Tide North America, December 5, 2014
- Of COPs and Robber Barons - By Alexander Reid Ross, Earth First! Newswire, December 8, 2014
Noam Chomsky:
- Noam Chomsky Talks US Militarism and Capitalism, at Home and Abroad - Interviewed by Laura Flanders, Truthout, December, 9 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Call For Crude-By-Rail Moratorium In California After Train Derailment - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, December 9, 2014
- Carbon Colonialism: Climate Change Fight Displacing Africans - By Nafeez Ahmed, Mint Press News, December 2, 2014
- Documents Tell the Story: Texas Oil Industry Inspectors Fired for Enforcing the Rules - By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News, December 9, 2014
- Ebola Is 100 Times Riskier For Health Workers Than For The General Population - By Tara Culp-Ressler, Think Progress, December 10, 2014
- The Great Invisible: Q&A with filmmaker Margaret Brown and Antonia Juhasz - By Leah Mahan, Bridge the Gulf, December 10, 2014
- How [Capitalist] Media Advanced Conservatives' [and Liberals'] Misleading "War On Coal" Narrative - By Kevin Kalhoefer, Media Matters, December 9, 2014
- Indiana Rail Road backs single-person train crews as safe, efficient operating option - By Jeff Stagl, Progressive Railroading, November 2014
- Kazakh oil workers: the fight for justice goes on - By Gabriel Levy, People and Nature, December 2, 2014
- Nurses: Climate Crisis is a Public Health Crisis - By Erin Carrera, RN, National Nurses United, December 8, 2014
- The Toxic Secret of California’s Salad Bowl: Dangerous pesticides a way of life for farmworkers - Earth Justice, December 2014
- Update: Charges Dropped for 64 Arrested at VT Governor’s Office Sit-In - By Sara Sullivan, Global Justice Ecology Project*, December, 8 2014
- *GJEP evolved from projects that included Earth First! - IWW Local #2
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