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EcoUnionist News #97
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, March 29, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists*:
Lead Stories:
- Jerry Brown celebrates World Water Day as he promotes salmon-killing tunnels - By Dan Bacher, Red Green & Blue, March 25, 2016
- How Montanans stopped the largest new coal mine in North America - By Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence, March 24, 2016
- Rail Workers: Deadly Tired…but Still Working - By Georgetta Gregory, NTSB Safety Compass, March 21, 2016
- Time to stop new oil leases off coast - By Anne Rolfes and Cherri Foytlin, The Advocate, March 21, 2016
- How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal - By Rucha Chitnis, Yes! Magazine, March 8, 2016
- Against Activism - By Astra Taylor, The Baffler, Spring 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Break Free 2016 - May 2016
- Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
- 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:
- Proposed Oakland Shipping Terminal Stirs Health, Environmental Concerns Over Coal - Darwin BondGraham and Jessica Yarnall Loarie interviewed by Mina Kim, KQED 88.1 FM, March 25, 2016
- Updates on the campaign to stop coal exports through Oakland - By Brittany King, Sierra Club Yodeler, March 23, 2016
- Utah Governor Signs Bill to Advance Oakland Coal Plan - By Ted Goldberg, KQED News, March 22, 2016
Just Transition:
- Pilgrim critics offer their take on the pending plant closure - By Frank Mand, Wicked Local Plymouth, March 25, 2016
- Contra Costa votes ‘Yes’ to Community Choice - By Carol Weed, Sierra Club Yodeler, March 23, 2016
- India Solar Power Push May Produce Over 1 Million Jobs - By Smiti Mittal, Clean Technica, March 23, 2016
- The Unsexy Climate Solution That's a Total No-Brainer - By Jimmy Thomson, DeSmog Canada, March 23, 2016
- World Water Day 2016: Louisiana, Water and Coastal Restoration Jobs - By Emily McCalla, Restore The Mississippi River Delta, March 22, 2016
- From Whaling to Whale Watching: SCCF Gets a First-Hand Look at the Green Transition in Action - By Diane Beckett, Sierra Club Canada, March 8, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- April declared “Month of Outrage” in national Wendy’s Boycott! - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 28, 2016
- Monsanto vs Indian Farmers - By Dr Vandana Shiva, Dr Vandana Shiva, March 27, 2016
- Final media round-up from Workers’ Voice Tour! News of Wendy’s boycott spreads far and wide… - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 26, 2016
- Carbon Farming: Hope for a Hot Planet - By Brian Barth, Modern Farmer, March 25, 2016
- Interview of Ramon Torres regarding PCC - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, March 24, 2016
- Position of the La Via Campesina in Honduras against the increasing criminalisation of the peasant and indigenous social struggle - By La Via Campesina Honduras, La Via Campesina, March 22, 2016
- Strawberries! Get your Fair Food Program strawberries here!… - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 22, 2016
- Selling TPP as the Farm Economy Drops off a Cliff - By Ben Lilliston, CommonDreams, March 21, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Full #SolidariTea to the #JuniorDoctors - By admin, A Green Trade Unionist in Bristol, March 28, 2016
- ArborGen workers take confidential settlement over $53M verdict in compensation case - By David Wren, Post and Courier, March 24, 2016
- Callaway Residents Still Can't Go Home After Train-Truck Crash - By Jennie Lissarrague, KSTP TV (ABC 5), March 24, 2016
- Forty-two years later, OSHA OKs rule protecting workers from silica - By Jamie Smith Hopkins, Center for Public Integrity, March 24, 2016; [related] OSHA issues final silica rule - By Emily Peiffer, Construction Dive, March 24, 2016
- Largest U.S. Restaurant Company Targeted Over Treatment of Workers, Animals, Environment - By Stephanie Feldstein, et. al., Center for Biological Diversity, et. al., March 24, 2016
- 105 Years Later, Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire - By Kyle Sturmann, Washington Square News, March 24, 2016
- The verdict is in: Bundy-inspired bill would endanger our park rangers - By Aaron Weiss, Center for Western Priorities, March 24, 2016
- Berta Cáceres: "To Fight Against Repression in Honduras Is to Fight for Our Whole Continent" - By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds, March 23, 2016; [related] Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’ Assassination - By Beverly Bell, CounterPunch, March 22, 2016
- International Mission ‘Justice for Berta Cáceres’ expresses its concern in relation to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - By La Esperanza, World Rainforest Movement, March 23, 2016
- Grand Rapids Police Intimidating, Threatening to Arrest Students, Workers - By Staff, United Students Against Sweatshops, March 23, 2016
- OSHA’s New Severe Injury Reporting Requirement: One Year In - By Staff, National Nurses United, March 23, 2016
- Fukushima Radiation: a Killer - By Robert Hunziker, CounterPunch, March 22, 2016
- Supreme Court Hands A Major Victory To Workers Who Were Stiffed On Overtime Pay - By Cristian Farias and Dave Jamieson, Huffington Post, March 22, 2016
- Why Honduran activist Berta Cáceres was assassinated - By Redeye Collective, Rabble.Ca, March 21, 2016
- Compensation program for sick nuclear workers plagued by problems, ombudsman finds - By Jamie Smith Hopkins, Center for Public Integrity, March 21, 2016
Greenwashers:
- Climate hypocrisy: JP Morgan's empty promises on coal - By Assaad Razzouk, The Ecologist, March 24, 2016
- Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels - By Almuth Ernsting, Independent Science News, March 14, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- I trained killer whales at SeaWorld for 12 years. Here’s why I quit - By John Hargrove, Vox.Com, March 22, 2016
- Worker claims retaliation over asbestos report - By Mead Gruver, Associated Press, March 22, 2016
Capital Blight:
- Hundreds Protest Obama Administration's Plans to Expand Offshore Drilling in Gulf - By Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network, March 24, 2016; [related] Protesters Crash Gulf of Mexico Offshore Drilling Lease Auction - By Mike Ludwig, Truthout, March 24, 2016
- Looking closer at the overall environmental impacts of SF’s private commuter shuttles - By Sue Vaughan, Sierra Club Yodeler, March 23, 2016
- Boston-area mass transit: Fare increases, service reductions and attacks on pensions - By John Marion, World Socialist Web Site, March 22, 2016
- Momentum Builds Against Obama Admin Plans To Auction Oil and Gas Drilling Rights In Gulf of Mexico - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, March 21, 2016
- From an Atlantic Victory to a Gulf Protest - By David Helvarg, National Geographic, March 20, 2016
- In New Orleans, Water Rises Against Drilling Leases - By David Underhill, Bridge the Gulf, March 20, 2016
Disaster Capitalism:
- Emails Reveal How Michigan Government Dragged Its Feet Before Investigating Flint’s Water - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, March 25, 2016
- Flint is only the beginning - By Dorian Bon, Socialist Worker, March 24, 2016
- Flint Investigation Lays Blame For Water Crisis Squarely On The State - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, March 23, 2016
- Flint’s Best Hope For Justice? The Streets - By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, The Guardian, March 18, 2016
The Man Behind the Curtain:
- The Wall Street Journal, Climate Change Denial and the Galileo Gambit - By Michael Mann, EcoWatch, March 28, 2016
- Glenn Greenwald: Is It A Coup? What Is Happening in Brazil is Much Worse Than Donald Trump - Glenn Greenwald interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, March 24, 2016
- New Trade Deals Will Undermine Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, March 23, 2016
- BRICS Under Attack: The Empire Strikes Back In Brazil - By Eric Draitser, Mint News Press, March 22, 2016; [related]: Which side will win out in Brazil? - By Bruno Ruviaro and Todd Chretien, Socialist Worker, March 24, 2016
- David Schnare and Jon Riches Mislead Arizona Court to Harass Climate Science Researchers - By John Mashey, DeSmog Blog, March 22, 2016
Wobbles:
- Hundreds Gather to Oppose Offshore Oil Leases in Gulf of Mexico - By Virali Modi-Parekh et. al., Rainforest Action Network, et. al., March 23, 2016
- Berlin: Anarchosyndicalist struggle in vegan pizzeria - A worker interviewed by, Anarchist Radio Berlin, March 18, 2016
Other News:
- Eating at The Perennial: Climate Change and Capitalism - By Chuck Morse, CounterPunch, March 25, 2016
- FRA rule gives us chance to bar most one-person crew trains - By John Previsich and Ed Wytkind, The Hill, March 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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