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EcoUnionist News #13
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 21, 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:
- Restoring Labor and Land: MG Co-Leads “Fracking California: A Learning Tour for Labor” - By Ellen Choy, Movement Generation, December 18, 2014
Dispatches from Lima COP20:
- GCC News from Peru! - Global Climate Convergence, December 18, 2014
- More from the People’s Climate Summit in Peru - By Erin Carrera, National Nurses United, December 18, 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Abandoned Mine Lands funds should be reinvested in just economic transition - By Ivy Brashear, Renew Appalachia, December 17, 2014
- An Angry Doctor Wrote The Perfect Response To Employers Who Require Doctor’s Notes For Sick Days - By Ryan Perry, Uproxx, December 16, 2014
- Climate destruction in the court of public opinion - By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability / Waging Nonviolence, October 3, 2014
- Department of Labor Targeting Oil and Gas Contractors - By David Barron and Cozen O'Connor, Breaking Energy, December 18, 2014
- Fracking Ban in New York Paves the Way for Other States - By Wenonah Hauter, EcoWatch, December 18, 2014; [related]: How New York won a fracking ban - By Joan McKiernan and Danny Katch, Socialist Worker, December 18, 2014
- How Science Can Tell if Your Great-Grandparents Were Strikebreakers - By Indre Viskontas, Climate Desk, December 16, 2014
- Inspectors find 100 defects on crude oil trains, tracks - By Khurram Saeed, LoHud (Journal News), December 15, 2014
- Is It Bad Enough Yet? - By Mark Bittman, New York Times, December 13, 2014
- Oil Trains: Unsafe (and Unnecessary) at Any Speed - By Ralph Nader, CounterPunch, December 16, 2014; [related]: What Do Oil Train Explosions Cost? And why cities and towns would have to pay the damages - by Eric de Place, Sightline Daily, December 18, 2014
- Senators bear down on EPA and OSHA for inaction on chemical safety - By Diana Ruiz, Greenpeace, December 18, 2014; [But let us not forget]: Greenpeace Chooses Marketing Over Ethics in Peru Action - By Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, December 18, 2014
- Why #BlackLivesMatter Should Transform the Climate Debate - By Naomi Klein, The Nation, December 12, 2014
- With sub-$60 oil, fracking and tar sands losses threaten the whole financial system - By Paul Mobbs, The Ecologist, December 17, 2014
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