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EcoUnionist News #48
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 20, 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 ExxonMobil Explosion That Nobody Is Talking About - By Sacha Feinman, Think Progress, April 13, 2015
May Day:
- May Day 2015 Benefit Concert for the Chicago IWW - Chicago IWW
- PROLERSKATING: A May Day Rollerskating Party! - Portland IWW
- Toronto IWW: May 16-17 2015: Organizing 101: Build the Committee Training - IWW.ORG
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- At least 19 dead after illegal mine collapses in Tanzania - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, April 17, 2015
- The Children's Place: Time To Pay Up! - By United Steel Workers, PR News Wire, April 17, 2015
- Coal Companies That Lobbied To Repeal West Virginia Mining Regulations Accused Of Federal Safety Violations - By Cole Stangler, International Business Times, April 15, 2015
- Federal researchers ID at least 9 VOC inhalation deaths at oil sites - By Mike Soraghan, EnergyWire, April 13, 2015
- Short Portraits of 11 Who Died on the Deepwater Horizon - Associated Press, April 18, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Coal Is Dying and It’s Never Coming Back; With or without help from President Obama - By Tim McDonnell, Climate Desk, April 16, 2015
- The Oil Industry’s ‘Man Camps’ Are Dying; Drillers spent big to house workers in the new boomtowns. No more - By David Wethe and Kelly Gilblom, Bloomberg Business, April 15, 2015
- Schlumberger cuts another 11,000 jobs in wake of oil crash - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, April 16, 2015
Just Transition:
- AWEA: US jobs increased 40% in 2014 - By David Weston, Wind Power Monthly, April 16, 2015
- Bonded PV Arrays Could Provide Safer Solar Power - By Bill Brooks, Renewable Energy World, April 19, 2015
- How Worker Co-ops are Moving Beyond Capitalism - By David Morgan, Occupy.Com, April 11, 2015
- Trade Unions condemn Petrocaribe Act; debate fate of Senator - Breaking Belize News, April 2, 2015
- Union funds to bail from flagship renewable energy investment - By Giles Parkinson, ReNew Economy, April 16, 2015
1267-Watch:
- Guest Opinion: Dirty fuel exports darken NW’s Earth Day - By Fred Felleman, Crosscut, March 31, 2015
- Jones Act tied to crude oil exports - Marine Log, March 25, 2015
- Railroad unions advancing two-person crew legislation to protect safety - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, April 17, 2015
Bread and Roses:
- Alleging Labor Abuses, U.S. and Mexican Workers Call for Boycott of Driscoll’s Berries - By Rachel Luban, In These Times, April 18, 2015
- Growers Move to Gut California’s Farm Labor Law - By David Bacon, Capital & Main, April 7, 2015
- Indonesia to send home enslaved fishermen; Government moves to return foreigners home after investigative report reveals forced labour in seafood industry - Al Jazeera, April 3, 2015
- Salad days? Semi-slavery on the 'sweating fields' of southern Spain - By Almudena Serpis, The Ecologist, April 16, 2015
- Time to Hold Large Buyers Accountable To Farmworkers Who Grow and Harvest Our Food - Fair World Project, April 2, 2015
Other News:
- Going Global in Richmond? Coalition Seeks Benefits From New UC Berkeley Campus - By Steve Early, BeyondChron, April 10, 2015
- Resurrection unionism: 5 ways labor can rise again - By David Goodner, Waging Non Violence, April 15, 2015
- Sharing is not always sharing - By Dirk Holemans, Green European Journal, April 16, 2015
- Turning Yosemite National Park Into a Cash Cow - By Marc Norton, CounterPunch, April 1, 2015
- Unlikely allies: Mexican miners and farmers unite over toxic spill - By David Bacon, Al Jazeera, April 15, 2015; [related] Miners and Farmers Challenge Mexico's Copper Giant - By David Bacon, Reality Check, April 15, 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC
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