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EcoUnionist News #67
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 22, 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 Leap Manifesto - By various, Rabble.Ca, September 15, 2015
- Leap Manifesto calls for radical changes to Canada's extractive economy - By Mick Sweetman, Rabble.Ca, September 15, 2015
- What we need is a giant leap forward - By Judy Rebick, Rabble.Ca, September 15, 2015
- Regeneration: Global Transformation in Catastrophic Times - By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association, August 4, 2015
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
- Northern California Climate Mobilization - November 21, 2015
- People's Climate Movement - October 14, 2015
- People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
- Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15
- Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate
- 21st Century EcoSocialism Conference - October 9-11, 2015, University of California Santa Barnara
Bread and Roses:
- The European Coordination Via Campesina in solidarity with migrants - By Unai Aranguren and Paula Gioia, La Via Campesina, September 16, 2015
- Update on Driscoll’s Boycott - Staff Report, Boycott Sakuma Berries, September 15, 2015
- Checking all the boxes at Singing Frogs Farm - By Toby Hemenway, Toby Hemenway blog, September 14, 2015
- California to Put Four Pesticides on Cancer List - By David Schultz, Bloomberg, September 8, 2015
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Statement by Numsa and Labour Unions to Strike Against Corruption on 30 September 2015 - Press Release, NUMSA, September 16, 2015
- Transit Workers Win Victory Against Policy That Led to Bus Drivers in Handcuffs - Press Release, AFL-CIO, September 16, 2015
- Japan Railroad Workers Doro-Chiba And Other Unions To Rally On November 1 In Tokyo Against Abe, Nukes, Privatization and War - Press Release, Doro Chiba, September 15, 2015
- Wildfires ravage counties where SEIU 1021 members live and work - By Randy Lyman, SEIU 1021, September 15, 2015
- Australian tram drivers strike over jobs and conditions - By Margaret Rees, World Socialist Website, September 14, 2015
- Feds Wonder If Oil And Gas Workers Have To Die - By Elie Mystal, Breaking Energy, September 14, 2015
- Bloquean pepenadores ambos sentidos de la autopista del Sol [Es] - By Josué Guzmán, Quadratin Morelos, August 28, 2015
Carbon Bubble:
- Maersk Oil shedding U.S. jobs as Angola drilling plans stall - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 16, 2015
- GE to cut 100 jobs at East Houston manufacturing facility - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 15, 2015
- Is Your Retirement Invested in Fossil Fuels? - By Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch, September 15, 2015
- OPEC: "All eyes are on how quickly US production falls" - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, September 15, 2015
- A crude oil export ban primer - By Jonathan Thompson, High Country News, September 14, 2015
- Survey: Oil field services companies feeling pressure as cuts continue - By Joshua Cain, FuelFix, September 14, 2015
Just Transition:
- Will PECO Be the Missing Piece? - By Duncan Wright and Christy Tavernelli, Earth Quaker Action Team, September 16, 2015
- Mississippi Taxpayers Subsidize Howard Industries - By Joe Atkins, PortSide, September 10, 2015
- Organizing for a true reconstruction in the Gulf Coast: An interview with labor leader Saket Soni - Saket Soni interviewed by Allie Yee, Facing South, August 26, 2015
Other News:
- Keep the Crude Oil Export Ban to Protect Jobs, Environment - By Kim Glas, Blue-Green Alliance, September 16, 2015
- What does Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour Leader mean for Greens, in Britain and across the EU? - By Rupert Read, Green European Journal, September 15, 2015
For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW
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