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EcoUnionist News #18
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, January 6, 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 Story:
- Never Trust a COP: The 2014 UN Climate Summit, Lima, Peru - By John Foran, Climate Justice Project, December 14, 2014
Railroad Workers, Safety, and the Environment:
- How crude-by-rail-–and other debates–-are censored - By Lois Kazakoff, San Francisco Chronicle, January 2, 2015
- How Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton Made Oil Trains Less Safe - By Eric de Place, Sightline Daily, January 5, 2015
- JR Hokkaido admits express train ran for month with automatic stop system deactivated - Japan Times, December 30, 2014
- [Graphic]: Train Derailments Not Good News in Canada - Railroaded Blog, January 2, 2015
Black Lives Matter:
- 15Now and #BlackLivesMatter Take Over Town Hall Meeting on TPP Fast Track - By Anonymous, Earth First! Newswire, January 3, 2015
- Uniting Fight for $15 with Ferguson Fury - By Ty Moore, 15 Now Organizing Director, 15 Now, January 3, 2015
- The Police Were Created to Control Poor and Working Class People - By Sam Mitrani, Counter Punch, December 31, 2014
Other News of Interest:
- Deal offers hope for miners thrown out of work in W. Kentucky - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, January 4, 2015
- Feed the World? The Myth of Food Scarcity and the Evil of Profit Starvation - By Daniel Dawson, Freedom, January 1, 2015
- Fracking Industry Still “Failing” on Transparency - By Carey L. Biron, Mint News Press, January 2, 2015
- The Marikana miners deserve justice - By James Nichol, Socialist Worker, January 5, 2015
- Power corrupts: How network companies lined their pockets and drove electricity prices through the roof - By Jess Hill, The Monthly, July 2014
- Remembering Sago - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coalminer, January 3, 2015
- Senator Pushes Keystone XL Pipeline With Egregiously Misleading Statistic - By Emily Atkin, Think Progress, January 4, 2015
- 2014 Year-End Mining Industry Scorecard - By Payal Sampat, Earthworks, December 31, 2014
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC
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