EcoUnionist News #78

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, December 1, 2015

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

• Protest Ban? What Protest Ban? - By Danny Chivers, New Internationalist, November 29, 2015
• Can a WA State climate policy train wreck be averted? - By Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Planet, November 27, 2015
• “We Need Not Be Polite” Hears First National Conference On Oil Train Threats - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, November 25, 2015
• Dhaka: Climate refugees and a collapsing city - By Sohara Mehroze Shachi, UNDP, November 23, 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• Jobs, Justice, Climate: Rally to Defend New England's Future! - December 12, 2015
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15

The Road to Paris:

• Why the Paris climate talks are doomed to failure, like all the others - By Steffen Böhm, The Conversation, November 30, 2015
• COP21 actions go ahead: 'We are not defending nature - we are nature defending itself' - By Nadine Bloch, The Ecologist, November 28, 2015
• Environment activists plan to defy Paris ban on protests at UN Climate Conference - By Larissa Dubecki, The Age, November 28, 2015
• Climate change rally: Tens of thousands gather in Melbourne ahead of UN talks - By Sara Phillips, Australian Broadcasting Company, November 27, 2015
• Paris climate activists put under house arrest using emergency laws - By Arthur Neslen, The Guardian, November 27, 2015
• If 'Life Must Go On,' say Groups, France Must Lift Ban on Climate Protests - By Jon Queally, Common Dreams, November 26, 2015
• Climate Jobs Activities in Paris - By Jonathan Nancy, Global Climate Jobs, November 25, 2015
• Our call for climate justice will be heard - By Ragina Johnson, Socialist Worker, November 25, 2015
• “Filthy Foxes” Guard the Paris COP Hen House - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, November 24, 2015
• It’s Too Late to “Save” the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save Ourselves - By Aaron Lehmar Craig, World Shift Vision, November 23, 2015
• Mainers will head to Paris as they push for Obama to make climate deal - By Randy Billings, Portland Press Herald, November 23, 2015
• 'Now More Than Ever': In Paris and Beyond, Climate Movement Will Be Heard - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, November 23, 2015
• Thousands of protesters demand action on climate change - By Oakland North, San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 2015
• What’s really at stake at the Paris climate conference now marches are banned - By Naomi Klein, The Guardian, November 20, 2015
• Why climate activists should support nationalisation and direct public investment - By Zane Alcorn, Green Left Weekly, November 20, 2015
• Is the Paris Climate March Cancellation a 'Gift to the Movement'? - By Tessa Stuart, Rolling Stone, November 19, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• A farmers´ climate appeal to policy - By Georg Janßen, et. al., La Via Campesina, November 30, 2015
• Water can't be for sale - By Mike Gonzalez and Nick Evans, Socialist Worker, November 30, 2015
• ‘Fruits of Justice’ – Activists & Lawyers in Support of Familias Unidas por la Justicia - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, November 26, 2015
• Food for Thought on Thanksgiving Eve… - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, November 25, 2015
• Thousands protest in Seoul against the government policies - By Staff, La Via Campesina, November 25, 2015
• What's Missing From Our Thanksgiving Menus? Justice for Farm Workers - By Jennifer S. Hirsch, Huffington Post, November 25, 2015
• Behind Your Holiday Sweet Potato Dish, Hard Work In The Fields - By Dan Charles, NPR, November 24, 2015
• Salmon Fishermen and Consumer Groups Criticize FDA Approval of Frankenfish - By Dan Bacher, East Bay Express, November 23, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Belgian workers strike during anti-terror lockdown undermined by trade unions - By Ross Mitchell, Wsws.org, November 27, 2015
• Mandatory Overtime - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, November 27, 2015
• M.T.A. Contract Workers Push for Higher Wages and Better Working Conditions - By Emma G. Fitzsimmons, New York Times, November 27, 2015
• A quarter of European workers believe that their health is at risk because of their work - By Staff, European Trade Union Institute, November 26, 2015
• Safety Lapses and Deaths Amid a Building Boom in New York - By David W Chen, New York Times, November 26, 2015
• La Via Campesina struggle against femicide and violence against women - By Staff, La Via Campesina, November 25, 2015
• Time to Get Off the Fence - By Joshua Kahn Russell, 350.org, November 25, 2015
• Shame on Shell! Pakistani workers organize, management deploys troops - By Staff, IndustriAll, November 24, 2015
• Fatal Bronx derailment: Metro-North to pay conductor at least $835K - By Thomas C. Zambito, Poughkeepsie Journal, November 17, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Mining workers fall from 'champagne lifestyle' to working poor as resources sector jobs wane - By Nicolas Perpitch, Australian Broadcasting Company, November 28, 2015
• Hard Times? Better Times - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, November 27, 2015
• Investors face $2.2 trillion loss on 'risky' fossil fuel assets - By Alex Kirby, The Ecologist, November 25, 2015
• U.S. Steel to idle Granite City plant; 2,080 to be laid off - By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, November 23, 2015
• FUP calls historic national strike in defence of Petrobras - By Staff, IndustriAll, November 13, 2015

Just Transition:

• If Unionists And Environmentalists Work Together Climate Change Can Become An Opportunity - By Colin Long, Troy Gray, and Victoria McKenzie-McHarg, NewMatilda.com, November 26, 2015
• NAACP, Allies Call on Governor to Get Ahead of Job Losses in Coal-power Communities - Press Release, NC Warn, November 24, 2015
• Major Poll Shows African Americans Support Clean Energy, Clean Jobs, & Clean Power Plan - By Cynthia Shahan, Clean Technica, November 23, 2015
• Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn in Paris - By Jonathan Nancy, Global Climate Jobs, November 23, 2015

I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night:

• The Centennial of the Perforation of Joe Hill - By Patrick Murfin, Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout, November 19, 2015
• 100 years later: 5 timeless lessons from Joe Hill - By Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence, November 19, 2015
• Remembering the Life and Music of Labor Agitator Joe Hill, Who Was Executed 100 Years Ago Today - By David Cochran, In These These Times, November 19, 2015

Other News:

• Silicon Valley Bus Drivers Are Offering An Example Of How To Fix American Inequality - By Alan Pyke, Think Progress, November 24, 2015
• Portland Blocked Fossil Fuels, What Now? - By Arun Gupta, Yes!, November 23, 2015

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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.