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EcoUnionist News #12
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 19, 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 Story:
- Nurses join tour of fracking sites hosted by Movement Generation - By Marie Walcek, National Nurses United, December 15, 2014
Dispatches from Lima COP20:
- 10,000 Attend South America's Largest Ever Environmental March - By Rael Mora, Telesur, December 10, 2014
- Without Respect for Indigenous Rights, There Will be No Solution to Climate Change: Report from Lima - By Alfredo Acedo, Intercontinental Cry, December 16, 2014; (related) It’s Not Them, It’s Us: Unadaptable to Climate Change - Statement from Yasunidos y la Caravana Climática before the COP20 climate negotiations in Lima, Peru, Growing Deep Roots, December 11, 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Are “Works Councils” Really Such a Good Idea for Workers and Unions? - By Douglas Williams, In These Times, December 15, 2014
- Black Lung Escalates In China Just As Coal Demand Starts To Slow - By Ari Phillips, Climate Progress, December 15, 2014
- Emery County mine to shut down; 182 losing their jobs - By Mike Gorell, Salt Lake Tribune, December 16, 2014; (related) Berkshire to Close Utah Coal Mine With 182 Workers - By Dan Reichl and Tim Loh, Bloomberg, December 15, 2014
- Calls to Ban Bomb Trains Ramp Up While Communities Await New Regulations - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, December 15, 2014
- Canada rail safety jobs vacant as budget cuts bite - By Mike De Souza, The Globe and Mail, December 8, 2014
- Chemicals from fracking, acidizing, and gravel packing make us sick - By Sarah Craig, Faces of Fracking, December 11, 2014
- Direct Action In The Berry Fields - By Felimon Pineda, Labor Notes, December 11, 2014
- Miners back to work at Peru’s Antamina copper mine - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, December 15, 2014
- Naomi Klein Interview: "A 3-Day Week Will Help to Save Life on Earth" - Films for Action, December 14, 2014
- Nigeria’s oil unions continue strike that may curtail exports - Bloomberg Wire, FuelFix, December 15, 2014
- Oil jumps most in two weeks as fighting, strike curb OPEC output - Bloomberg Wire, FuelFix, December 15, 2014
- Reclaim the power! It's time to deprivatise Britain's energy - By Sam Lund-Harket, The Ecologist, December 16, 2014
- Report Says Most Oil & Gas Companies Fail to Disclose Fracking Practices - By Jon Hurdle, Breaking Energy, December 15, 2014
- What is Xylene, and What Does it Mean for Puget Sound? - By Eric de Place and Ahren Stroming, Sightline Daily, December 15, 2014
- Zhanaozen: the unknown tragedy [video] - By Gabriel Levy, People and Nature, December 16, 2014
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