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EcoUnionist News #94 - Berta Cáceres Presente!
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, March 7, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists*:
Lead Stories:
- Remembering Berta Cáceres, Assassinated Honduras Indigenous & Environmental Leader - Silvio Carrillo and Beverly Bell interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, March 4, 2016
- Assassination of our sister in struggle: Berta Cáceres - By Staff, La Via Campesina, March 3, 2016
- Poisoned City: Flint and the Specter of Domestic Terrorism - By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout, March 3, 2016
- David Suzuki and labour movement join forces - By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud, National Observer, March 2, 2016
- DuPont Rakes in Federal Dollars Despite History of Hazards - By Mary Bottari, PR Watch, February 29, 2016
- New York State Pension Funds Lost $5.3 Billion From Fossil Fuel Holdings Over 3 Years - By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, February 29, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Appalachia Resist: Regional Action Camp for Social & Environmental Justice - March 18-21
- Break Free 2016 - May 2016
- Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
- Cove Point Spring Break - March 6-14
- Earth Day to May Day! - April 22-May 1, 2016
- Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
- 2016 Labor Notes Conference - April 1-4, 2016
The Thin Green Line:
- City of Warrenton Denies Key Land Use Permits for Proposed Oregon LNG Terminal - By Brett VandenHeuvel, Columbia Riverkeeper, March 4, 2016
- Inside the Fight to Frack a Pennsylvania Township - By Natasha Khan, Truthout, March 4, 2016
- U.S. Marshals Enforce Eminent Domain for Constitution Pipeline - By John Zangas, DC Media Group, March 4, 2016
- A Hollow Victory for Williams Partners - By Ted Glick, Ted Glick, March 1, 2016
- Oakland: Sen. Hancock introduces four bills to restrict coal exports - By David DeBolt, Contra Costa Times, February 19, 2016
Just Transition:
- From sit-ins to songs to socials, highlights from Leap Day 2016 - By Bianca Mugyenyi, Rabble.Ca, March 4, 2016
- How do we ditch dirty coal power without sending miners to the unemployment line? - By Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, March 4, 2016
- Big Solar Brightens Up South Carolina Economy - By Staff, Clean Energy Footprints, March 2, 2016
- Canadian Labour Congress proposes plan to create 1 million 'climate jobs' - By Staff, CBC News, March 2, 2016
- HS2 or HSUK - the quicker, cheaper, emissions-cutting, low impact high speed rail network? - By Colin Elliff, Andrew Coulson & Stephen Stretton, The Ecologist, March 1, 2016
- Mass demo says Trident has got to go - By Tomáš Tengely-Evans, Socialist Worker (UK), March 1, 2016
- A closer look at the Repower Our Schools report and transitioning CMS to solar - By Ryan Pitkin, Creative Loafing, February 17, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- The Wendy’s Boycott begins: Video, photo report from Day One of the Workers’ Voice Tour! - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 5, 2016
- Incapable of responding to the dairy crisis, the European Commission faces international peasant farmer delegation - By Andoni Garcia, et. al., La Via Campesina, March 4, 2016
- 2016 Jose Gomez Farmworker Justice Day - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, March 4, 2016
- Farmworkers, Consumers Declare National Boycott of Wendy’s! - By Elena Stein, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 3, 2016
- Farmworkers Forced To Go Back To Work After Being Exposed To Pesticide - By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress, March 3, 2016
- Historic West Coast Tour with Familias Unidas por la Justicia - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, March 3, 2016
- CTA Review reflects previous government’s priorities, says NFU - By Jan Slomp, Ian Robson, and Terry Boehm, La Via Campesina, March 2, 2016
- Workers embark on Workers’ Voice Tour with wind in their sails thanks to National Council of Churches’ open letter to Wendy’s, Brolick, and Peltz! - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 2, 2016
- EU: Roadmap to exit the milk crisis - By Marzia Rezzin, et. al., La Via Campesina, March 1, 2016
- Backpackers 'targeted by dodgy labour hire companies' in 'culture of impunity' - By Robert French, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, March 1, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Explosion rocks refinery in Pasadena, injuring one - By Deborah Wrigley, KTRK TV (ABC 13 Houston), March 5, 2016; [related]: One injured in Texas explosion at Petrobras refinery - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, March 5, 2016
- NJ Transit rail workers holding rally as contract talks continue - By Dan Alexander, New Jersey 101.5 FM, March 5, 2016
- Scuba diver sucked in to nuclear plant water pipe files suit against Florida Power and Light - By Jared Werksma, WPTV (NBC 5 West Palm Beach), March 4, 2016
- Five reasons Canada must ban asbestos now - By Staff, Canadian Labour Congress, March 3, 2016
- 5 Years Later Fukushima Still Spilling Toxic Nuclear Waste Into Sea, Top Execs Face Criminal Charges - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, March 1, 2016
- Garment factory workers in Bangladesh need support, solidarity, not boycott - By Archana Rampure, Rabble.Ca, March 1, 2016
- Georgian Miners Dig In as Protest Enters Second Week - By Nicholas Waller, Georgia Today, March 1, 2016
- Union to Tesla: Gigafactory Worker Protest Is Just the Beginning - By Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, February 29, 2016; [related]: Hundreds walk off Tesla job in Nevada labor dispute - By Staff, KRNV (Western Nevada NBC 4), February 29, 2016
- Audit faults Federal Railroad Administration for lack of oversight on oil trains - By Susan Phillips, State Impact (NPR Pennsylvania), February 26, 2016
- Crane operator fired for refusing high wind working - By Richard Krabbendam, Heavy Lift News, February 22, 2016
Greenwashers:
- Why Survival International has made a formal complaint to the OECD against WWF - By Lewis Evans, The Ecologist, March 6, 2016
- The Imazapyr Alliance - By Will Parrish, Anderson Valley Advertiser, March 2, 2016
- Why E O Wilson is wrong about how to save the Earth - By Robert Fletcher and Bram Büscher, Aeon, March 1, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- Exclusive: Newly Released Inspection Reports on Keystone XL’s Southern Route Fuel Doubt Over ‘Safest Pipeline Ever Built' Claims - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, March 1, 2016
Capital Blight:
- India's Water War: City Workers Fight Corporate Privatization Efforts - By Papri Sri Raman, Truthout, March 5, 2016
- U.S. Chamber Sues Seattle To Prevent Uber Drivers From Unionizing - By Lauren C. Williams, Think Progress, March 4, 2016
- #TempleMeads #NotForSale: Protest 7th March - By admin, A Green Trade Unionist in Bristol, March 4, 2016
- New York City transit upgrade aids developers - By Mark Witkowski and Philip Guelpa, World Socialist Web Site, March 3, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Dems say state blocked Flint return to Detroit water - By Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, March 3, 2016
- Damning Flint Emails Show Snyder Could Have Called Emergency 'at Any Time - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, February 29, 2016
- 3 ex-TEPCO execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster - By Staff, Japan Today, February 29, 2016
- We Poisoned Kids in Flint to Keep Their Parents From Having Jobs - By Dean Baker, Truthout, February 29, 2016
- Drinking water and Democracy: Tale of Two Cities - By Shiney Varghese, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, February 25, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- 'Moment of Judgment' Welcomed as Exxon Cover-Up Investigation Goes to FBI - By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, March 3, 2016
- Arch Coal funded US ‘libertarian’ think tank and ALEC - By Bob Burton, End Coal, March 2, 2016
Wobbles:
- For a Political Revolution Beyond Electoral Mobilization - By Fran Shor, CounterPunch, March 3, 2016
- Rolling Sickouts Expose Unsafe Detroit Schools - By Nina Chacker, Labor Notes, March 3, 2016
- Bus strike: Pay cash, get a free ride - By Tess Nichol, New Zealand Herald, March 2, 2016
- Teachers Who Staged ‘Sick-outs’ Declare Victory Against Detroit Schools’ Unelected Emergency Manager - By Mario Vasquez, In These Times, February 29, 2016
- From Chiapas to Rojava: more than just coincidences - By Staff, Cooperativa Integral Catalana, February 9, 2016
Other News:
- Evo Morales and the limits of 21st century socialism - By Angus McNelly, ROAR Mag, March 2, 2016
- Bernie Sanders and the Pacification of Political Revolution - By Jesse Benn, Revolution News, February 29, 2016
- When is Capitalism Not Capitalism? - By Kevin Carson, P2P Foundation, February 23, 2016
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* Due to the sheer volume of news items, we have given "Carbon Bubble" it's own, separate node this week, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.
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