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EcoUnionist News #21
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, January 13, 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:
- Carbon Counterattack: How Big Oil Is Responding to the Anti-Carbon Movement - By Michael T Klare, Truthout, January 8, 2015
- Report: The First Worldwide Festival of Resistance in Mexico; Celebrating the Global Fight Against Capitalism in Mexico: Where There is Destruction From Above We Will Rebuild From Below - By Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, Popular Resistance, January 8th, 2015
IWW Campaigns:
- Debate Heats Up over "As Needed" Workers: Santa Monica Beach Bathroom Workers Fight for Permanent Status - By Marcy Winograd, LA Progressive, January 9, 2015
Other News of Interest:
- Bringing Labor Back: Labor-management partnerships will not revive the union movement - By Chris Maisano, Jacobin, January 5, 2015
- Cape Wind Loses Power Contracts, Becomes Victim of Class Warfare - By Stephen Lacey, Greentech Media, January 7, 2015
- Carbon Bubble - The Gristle, Cascadia Weekly, December 30, 2014
- EPA Sued Over Disclosure Rules for Toxic Pollution from Drilling and Fracking - By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, January 7, 2015
- Greening Malthus: The emphasis on family planning as an environmental fix distracts us from more fundamental reforms - By Anne Hendrixson, Jacobin, January 8th, 2015
- Propaganda by Proxy: The Payoffs - Dory Hippauf, No Fracking Way, January 8, 2015
- Proposed B.C. coal mine to rely mostly on foreign workers, cost almost double - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, January 9, 2015
- Strikers Win at Waste Management - Teamsters for a Demorcatic Union, January 8th, 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC
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