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EcoUnionist News #63
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 1, 2015
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:
- The Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks - By Stephen Corry, Truthout, August 25, 2015; [related] The Forgotten History Of 'Violent Displacement' That Helped Create The National Parks - By Julian Brave NoiseCat, Huffington Post, August 26, 2015
- The King is Dead!: In Appalachia, the Coal Industry Is in Collapse, but the Mountains Aren't Coming Back - By Laura Gottesdiener, Tom Dispatch, August 24, 2015
- Tianjin Explosion Highlights Profits Over People - By Preeti Kaur, Telesur, August 23, 2015
- Washington first state to price carbon by popular vote? The obstacle course - By Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Planet, August 23, 2015
- The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed; And Why We Should Lift the Ban - By Ravi Mangla, Salon, August 22, 2015
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
- Northern California Climate Mobilization - November 21, 2015
- People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
- Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate
Bread and Roses:
- The Pacific Coast Farmworker Rebellion - By David Bacon, The Reality Check, August 28, 2015
- How Lebanon's rubbish spurred a budding revolution - By Nour Samaha, Al Jazeera, August 26, 2015
- Trash or Treasure? How to Repurpose Would-Be Wasted Food to Feed the Hungry and Create Jobs - By Alex McKechnie, Drexel Now, August 26, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Another Powerful Explosion at Chemical Factory in China - By Jennifer Baker, Revolution News, August 31, 2015
- Fracking-induced earthquakes could leave workers vulnerable, says geophysicist - By Betsy Trumpener, CBC News, August 27, 2015
- 2 crew members injured after pipeline ruptures in Gulf - Associated Press wire, FuelFix, August 27, 2015
- Union can hand out leaflets critical of bus system leaders, judge says - By John Agar, Michigan Live, August 27, 2015
- United Front welcomes conviction of the police who murdered Mido Macia - By John Appollis, Dinga Sikwebu, and Mazibuko Jara, NUMSA, August 26, 2015
- Railroads balk at making oil disaster plans public - By Tim Pugmire, MPR News, August 25, 2015
- Skepticism arrives with caulk removal at Malibu schools - By Chris Bashaw, Malibu Surfside News, August 25, 2015
- Local 6787 steelworker dies in fall at BH mill - By Staff, Chesterton Tribune, August 24, 2015
- When firefighters speak out on climate change, we ought to listen up - By Char Miller, The Guardian, August 24, 2015
- No Nooses in the Workplace! Daryle Washington IBT 350 Recology Worker Targeted For Exposing Hanging Noose Racist Incident - By Steve Zeltser, Transportworkers.Org, August 23, 2015
- Coroner identifies worker who died after accident at Beech Grove Amtrak facility - Staff Report, 13 WTHR, August 22, 2015
- Fracking Companies Put First Responder Lives at Risk by Refusing to Disclose Chemicals - Appeal, Dear President Obama, August 20, 2015
- 4,000 Prison Inmates Fighting California Wildfires For $2 Per Day - By Kit O'Connell, Mint News, August 18, 2015
- Skepticism arrives with caulk removal at Malibu schools - By Charles D. Ellison, The Root, August 17, 2015
- Spate of oil field deaths prompts new study of workplace hazards - By Jennifer Gollan, Reveal, August 14, 2015
- Interview with a Miner - By Rachael Charbonneau and John Newlands, Workers Struggle-Sudbury, August 2015
Just Transition:
- Canadian doctors divest from fossil fuels - By Jesse McLaren, Rabble.Ca, August 26, 2015
- Financial gatekeepers are blocking green investment - By Megan Darby, Responding to Climate Change, August 25, 2015
- No Gold, No Masters - Press Release, Beyond Europe, August 24, 2015
- Drawing a line in the sand: The movement victory at Ende Gelände opens up the road of disobedience for Paris - By laronceblog, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, August 23, 2015
- Review: Alternatives to Capitalism - By Heather Blakey, Red Pepper, August 2015
- Review: The Collapse of Western Civilization - By Jonathan Cohn, Great Transition Initiative, August 2015
- Origins and delusions of green growth - By Gareth Dale, International Socialist Review, Summer 2015
Other News:
- NUMSA to also go for Prasa - By Andrew Chirwa, NUMSA, August 25, 2015
- Striking Chilean miners blockade themselves underground - By Staff, Khabar.Eu, August 25, 2015
- The 350.org and Hollaback! approach to distributed campaigning - By Tom Liacas, Mob Lab, August 4, 2015
- America’s First Red Scare: For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes - By Andre Fleche, Jacobin, August 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW
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