EcoUnionist News #72

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, October 21, 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:

• Unless You’re a Corporation, Nothing Good Will Come of the Trans-Pacific Partnership - By Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers President, In These Times, October 15, 2015
• With the threat of coal exports, Oakland piles more pollution on a polluted community - By Raven Rakia, Grist, October 13, 2015
• 'Capitalism is Mother Earth's Cancer': World People's Summit Issues 12 Demands - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, October 12, 2015
• Activists promise largest climate civil disobedience ever at Paris summit - By Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, October 8, 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 Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15

Bread and Roses:

• "Together, we can cool the planet!" [video] - By Staff, La Via Campesina, October 16, 2015
• Trade agreements and food sovereignty don’t mix, says NFU - By Jan Slomp, Ann Slater, and,Terry Boehm, La Via Campesina, October 16, 2015
• No TTIP For Food Sovereignty - By Hanny van Geel, La Via Campesina, October 15, 2015
• Small Scale Food Producers Launch the first ever Joint Vision for Agroecology - By the Secretariat of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, La Via Campesina, October 15, 2015
• Statement on Current Repression of Farmers in Poland - By the European Coordination of Via Campesina, La Via Campesina, October 15, 2015
• Brazil: MPA holds a historic peasant congress to build food sovereignty - By the communication team of the MPA Peasants Congress, La Via Campesina, October 14, 2015
• S. Africa's main coal union accepts wage offer, ends strike - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, October 13, 2015
• From Serra to Syrah: The Bloody Roots of California's Vineyards - By Frances Dinkelspiel, Indian Country Today, October 8, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Brazil: Rising profits do not prevent layoffs: Fibria Celulosa in Mato Grosso do Sul - By various, World Rainforest Movement, October 15, 2015
• Malaysia: Human trafficking and workers’ abuse in palm oil plantations [video] - By various, World Rainforest Movement, October 15, 2015
• The Seed Treaty Undermined by the Gangrene of Biopiracy - By Guy Kastler, et. al., La Via Campesina, October 15, 2015
• Sniffing out the evidence - By Frances Ruth Harris, The Pike County Courier, October 15, 2015
• An Open Letter - Threats in Colombia: Serious Concern regarding lack of guarantees - By various, La Via Campesina, October 13, 2015
• California May Change Rules So They Can Keep Fighting Fires With Prison Labor - By Alan Pykeen, Think Progress, October 13, 2015
• Four dead, two injured in a Bosnian coal mine accident - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, October 13, 2015
• Workers at B&H Photo Video, Citing Hazards, Move to Unionize - By Colin Moynihan, New York Times, October 13, 2015
• OSHA Dismisses Majority of Whistleblower Cases Agency Investigates - By Vicky Nguyen, NBC Bay Area, October 12, 2015
• EPA Draft Plan Would Perpetuate Environmental Racism, Critics Say - By Kristen Lombardi, The Center for Public Integrity, October 9, 2015
• DuPont knew La Porte plant threatened community, workers alike - By Mark Collette and Lauren Caruba, Houston Chronicle, September 30, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Repsol could cut hundreds of Alaksa jobs amid restructuring - Bloomberg, FuelFix, October 14, 2015
• Frac sand plants announce layoffs - By Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, October 13, 2015
• Shell Is Reeling After Pulling Out of the Arctic - By Antonia Juhasz, Newsweek, October 13, 2015
• Statoil cuts Houston workforce - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, October 13, 2015
• UK local council pensions lose over $1 billion with coal crash - By Platform London, Mining.Com, October 13, 2015
• How to survive the bust - By Neil LaRubbio, High Country News, October 12, 2015
• Oil Sands Boom Dries Up in Alberta, Taking Thousands of Jobs With It - By Ian Austin, New York Times, October 12, 2015

Just Transition:

• CoCo County Launches Plan to Replace PG&E with Green Energy System - By Jean Tepperman, East Bay Express, October 15, 2015
• Labor and the Clean Power Plan: More Jobs, More Justice - By Dean Hubbard and Alejandra Núñez, Clean Energy Footprints, October 15, 2015
• 150+ Events Across America Demand Bold Climate Action in Paris - By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch, October 14, 2015
• The decoupling debate: can economic growth really continue without emission increases? - By Mark Burton, DeGrowth, October 13, 2015
• Contra Costa Considers Replacing PG&E with Green Power Program - By Jean Tepperman, East Bay Express, October 12, 2015
• Three Years Ago, These Chicago Workers Took Over a Window Factory. Today, They're Thriving - By Sarah van Gelder, Yes, October 9, 2015

Other News:

• Groups Call for Public Inquiry on Investissement Quebec’s Arnaud Mine Fiasco - By Coalition Québec meilleure mine, Mining Watch, October 16, 2015
• Hundreds march on API against TPP, climate catastrophe - By Luke, DC Indymedia, October 14, 2015
• Keep the oil trains out - By Brian Huseby, Socialist Worker, October 14, 2015
• The Untold Story of When Labor Linked Arms With Occupy Wall Street - By Michael Gould-Wartofsky, In These Times, October 13, 2015

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