EcoUnionist News #69

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, October 8, 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:

• Paris: International Call out against COP21 - Staff Report, Contra Info, September 29, 2015
• Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and beyond Paris - Staff Report, Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities, and Trade, September 29, 2015
• Why Climate Justice activists are preparing to hack the Paris climate summit - By Nick, Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities, and Trade, September 29, 2015
• Flood Wall Street West: March, Sit-in, Shut down the Climate Profiteers - Staff Report, Flood the System, September 28, 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
• 21st Century EcoSocialism Conference - October 9-11, 2015, University of California Santa Barnara 

Bread and Roses:

• Greenpeace: The Truth Behind the World’s Largest Tuna Company - By Greenpeace, EcoWatch, October 5, 2015
• Lawsuit: Your Candy Bar Was Made By Child Slaves - By Abby Haglage, The Daily Beast, September 30, 2015
• Monsanto Sued by Farm Workers Claiming Roundup Caused Their Cancers - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, September 30, 2015
• Whole Foods To Stop Profiting From Prison Labor - By Carimah Townes, Think Progress, September 30, 2015
• PCC Natural Markets Actions to Support Farmworkers - By Admin, Boycott Sakuma Berries, September 29, 2015
• U.S. workers sue Monsanto claiming herbicide caused cancer - By Carey Gillam, Reuters, September 29, 2015
• After Decades of Discrimination, Farm Workers Get Pesticide Protections - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, September 28, 2015
• Global Alliance on Climate Smart Agriculture: Solution or Mirage? - By Rashmi Mistry, Common Dreams, September 28, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• SunEdison To Lay Off 15% Of Its Workforce - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, October 5, 2015
• 30,000 South African coal miners poised to strike - By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, October 4, 2015
• Top Scientists Say That Political Pressure Is Undermining Their Research - By Sam P.K. Collins, Think Progress, October 3, 2015
• Common Solvent Keeps Killing Workers, Consumers - By Jamie Smith Hopkins, TruthOut, October 2, 2015
• WestConnex’s Asbestos Problem - By Wendy Bacon and Cathy Peters, Winston Close, October 2, 2015
• For Minnesota hazmat inspector, many railcars and not enough time - By Dan Gunderson, MPR News, October 1, 2015
• Amid Controversy, Johns Hopkins Quietly Drops Black Lung Program - By Matthew Mosk and Randy Kreider, ABC News, September 30, 2015
• Law center: Gulf Coast rig repair firm apologizes for mistreated workers in Katrina aftermath - By Associated Press, FuelFix, September 30, 2015
• Oakland Favors Bank Over Bus Riders - By Sam Levins, East Bay Express, September 30, 2015
• NUMSA General Secretary Cde Irvin Jim calls on commuters to boycott Intercape Bus services - By Irvin Jim, NUMSA, September 29, 2015
• Loopholes in national railroad policy take communities by surprise - By Isaiah Thompson, New England Center for Investigative Reporting, September 28, 2015
• Ruling: USW Miners’ Rep Has Right to Enter Sherwin Plant - Press Release, United Steel Workers, September 28, 2015
• Steelworkers Rally for a Fair Contract at Cliffs Natural Resources - Press Release, United Steel Workers, September 28, 2015
• BLET President Pierce challenges railroads on fatigue, attendance policies - By Staff Report, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, September 24, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Bankruptcy Lawyers Strip Cash From Coal Miners' Health Insurance - By Alec MacGillis, TruthOut, October 4, 2015
• Texas shed 28,300 oil and gas jobs since December - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, October 1, 2015
• Beginning of the end for fossil fuels? Panic sweeps global markets - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, September 30, 2015
• Joy Global announces indefinite layoffs affecting 100; loses S&P 500 listing - By Editor, Mining.Com, September 30, 2015
• Poland’s crippled coal company a symptom of a far larger problem - By Bob Burton, EndCoal, September 30, 2015
• Real estate crisis emerging in North Dakota’s man camps - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, September 29, 2015
• Shell to cut 1,300 jobs in Malaysia over two years - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, September 29, 2015
• The collapse of Saudi Arabia is inevitable - By Nafeez Ahmed, Middle East Eye, September 28, 2015
• Shell Exits Arctic as Slump in Oil Prices Forces Industry to Retrench - By Clifford Krauss and Stanley Reed, Network for Oil & Gas Accountability and Protection, September 28, 2015
• US coal giant seeks to eliminate health care for retirees - By Samuel Davidson, World Socialist Web Site, September 28, 2015
• The “Hard- Landing” Has Arrived: Chinese Coal Company Fires 100,000 - By Tyler Durden, Global Research, September 27, 2015
• The Fracking Bubble enters terminal decline - By Gjohnsit, Daily Kos, September 26, 2015
• Oil boom a loser for North Dakota cities, counties, study finds - By Sean Cockerham, McClatchy DC, September 9, 2015

Just Transition:

• Community and environmental groups challenge proposed Oakland coal-export terminal—California law requires environmental review of coal impacts - By Editor, Sierra Club Yodeler, October 2, 2015
• PostCapitalism: is it what we Greens have always wanted? - By Caroline Lucas, The Ecologist, October 2, 2015
• Australian clean energy jobs could be worth $370bn in 10 years - By Sophie Vorrath, RENew Economy, September 29, 2015
• Transitioning Queensland to Clean Energy - By staff, Workers Bush Telegraph, September 28, 2015

Other News:

• The drilling and fracking president - By Ragina Johnson, Socialist Worker, October 5, 2015
• Massachusetts Begins Mass Environmental Rollback; Wetlands, Wildlife and Water Management Protections May Be on Chopping Block - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, October 1, 2015,
• Coal-shipping plan divides Oakland over health, jobs issues - By Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, September 30, 2015
• Rail service shutdown could cost economy $30 billion, group says - By Curtis Tate, McClatchy DC, September 30, 2015
• ‘Climate Profiteers’ Shut Down as SF Activists Flood Financial District - By Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams, September 28, 2015
• The Bootleg Coal Rebellion - By Nixnootz, Coal, Corn, and Country, May 3, 2015

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