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EcoUnionist News #61
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 18, 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 Thin Green Line Is Stopping Coal and Oil in Their Tracks - By Eric de Place, Sightline Daily, August 13, 2015
- The Paris Mirage: Reducing emissions while increasing them - Press Release, Leave it in the Ground Initiative, August 2015
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
- People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
- Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate
Bread and Roses:
- Government and NFU betray Britain's dairy farmers - By Simon Fairlie, The Ecologist, August 15, 2015; [related] Milk Crisis: Small scale farmers' opinions - By Simon Fairlie, La Via Campesina, August 13, 2015
- Anti-farmer policies of NDA Government force Farmers to plan a Blockade of Delhi in September 2015: BKU - By Ch. Rakesh Tikait, et. al., La Via Campesina, August 11, 2015
- Valley Pride Farmworkers Join Independent Union Fear Company Retaliation - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 11, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Deadly Massive Chemical Explosion Raises Concerns of Toxic Brew Released Into the Environment - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, August 17, 2015
- Houston’s Black Elk Energy facing criminal charges for fatal Gulf explosion - By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, FuelFix, August 17, 2015
- NUMSA statement on third anniversary of Marikana massacre - By Castro Ngobese, NUMSA, August 17, 2015
- USW: Striking for safe working conditions in 2015 - By Ed Schultz and Leo Gerard, Global Climate Convergence, August 15, 2015
- Thousands Of Firefighters In California Are Inmates, Being Paid $1 An Hour On The Line - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, August 13, 2015
- WestConnex Removes Asbestos From Site Without Clean Up Approval - By Wendy Bacon, New Matilda, August 13, 2015
- Helicopter flying from oil rig crashes in Nigeria, killing 4 - Associated Press, FuelFix, August 12, 2015; [related] Oklahoma man killed in helicopter crash in Nigeria - Associated Press, FuelFix, August 13, 2015
- EPA Scientific Integrity Policy Stuck in Utero - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, August 12, 2015
- Illinois company exposed Mexican workers to asbestos - By Staff, Breeze Courier, August 11, 2015
- Linc Energy: Secret report reveals toxic legacy of coal gasification trials near SE Queensland town of Chinchilla - By Mark Solomons and Mark Willacy, Australian Broadcasting Company, August 10, 2015
- Ryan Edwards dies in CN switching accident - Press Release, Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART), August 5, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- California pension funds lose $5 billion on fossil fuels - By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, August 13, 2015; [report] California Pension Funds Lost More Than $5 Billion From Fossil Fuel Holdings - By 350.org, EcoWatch, August 14, 2015
- Double-Dip Oil Rout: Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy - By Michael Klare, Tom Dispatch, August 13, 2015
- Statement on the Outcomes of a Meeting Between Labour and Steel Industry CEOs on the Looming Jobs Bloodbath in the Sector - By Castro Ngobese, et.al., NUMSA, August 12, 2015
- Centennial warns of Springvale job cuts - By Esmarie Swanepoel, Mining Weekly, August 11, 2015
- Mass layoffs worldwide as corporate mergers near new record - By Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site, August 15, 2015
Just Transition:
- Earthworker Co-op secures solar hot-water manufacturer, delivers a win for local workers - By Earthworker, Yes to Renewables, August 13, 2015
- State Blueprints are Vital to Clean Power Plan's Success - By Kim Glas, Blue Green Alliance, August 13, 2015
- Green jobs: the potential is there, but where's the political will? - By Jean Lambert, The Ecologist, August 11, 2015
- Sandy Post: Erasing Any Trace - By Stephanie Rearick, Bark!, August 10, 2015
- Mutual Aid Network: The New Cooperative Model on the Block - By Stephanie Rearick, Shareable, August 7, 2015
- Exposing the false prophets of social transformation - By Nicole Aschoff, Open Democracy, August 3, 2015
Other News:
- 3-BP's main crude unit at Whiting shut for at least a month - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, August 11, 2015
- Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future - By Leah Penniman, Yes, August 10, 2015
- N.D. hires BNSF manager as inspector for state rail safety program - By Mike Nowatzki, Grand Forks Herald, August 10, 2015
- FUP prepares September strike in defence of Petrobras - By Fernando Lopes, IndustriALL Global Union, July 29, 2015
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