EcoUnionist News #98

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 4, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

• Fueling Fascism: The Secret History of How Texaco Supplied Oil to Fascists in Spain - Adam Hochschild interviewed by Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, March 31, 2016
• Reframing The Economics Debate Could Lead To More Action To Fight Climate Change - By Farron Cousins, DeSmog Blog, March 30, 2016
• Recycling is important: and recycling workers deserve better conditions - By Gail Bateson and Barbara Rahke, ILWU Dispatcher, March 29, 2016
• Death of a Shale Gas Salesman - By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee, March 28, 2016
• Cuba’s sustainable agriculture at risk in U.S. thaw - By Miguel Altieri, The Conversation, March 25, 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
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Big Oil’s time running out at the Port of Vancouver? We hope so - By Dan Serres, Colombia Riverkeeper, April 2, 2016
• FERC Denies Jordan Cove LNG! Oregon LNG: You’re Next! - By Dan Serres, Colombia Riverkeeper, April 2, 2016
• Your Call: Utah coal stirs up concerns in Oakland - By Laura Flynn, KALW 91.7 FM, March 29, 2016

Just Transition:

• Canada: Leap Manifesto unites broad forces, builds climate justice campaigns - By John Riddell, Climate and Capitalism, April 3, 2016
• Catching The Sun: Documentary Highlights Link Between Solar Energy And American Job Creation - By Alex Kotch, DeSmog Blog, April 3, 2016
• New investments bring ray of hope for Winnipeg Transit - By Lynne Fernandez, Rabble.Ca, March 31, 2016
• Study: ‘Quiet recreation’ brings in $173 million, employs more than 1,700 - By Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican, March 31, 2016
• 568,979 Clean Energy Workers In Midwest (2016 Survey) - By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, March 30, 2016
• 2.5 Million Americans Work In Clean Energy (Report) - By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, March 30, 2016
• Report: Re-Member-ing the Electric Cooperative - By John Farrell, Matt Grimley & Nick Stumo-Langer, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, March 29, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• First union of agricultural women workers launched in Pakistan - By Staff, International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers' Associations, April 2, 2016
• Berry Farmworkers Toil 12 Hours A Day For $6. Now They’re Demanding a Raise - By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress, April 1, 2016
• Honoring Cesar E. Chavez’ Legacy - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, April 1, 2016
• Hunger pangs of starving farmers met by a barrage of bullets - By Zeph Repollo, 350.Org, April 1, 2016; [related] 3 dead, 87 missing, 116 hurt as police fire on Cotabato human barricade - By Jeff Caparas, InterAksyon.com, April 1, 2016
• Boycott Driscoll’s West Coast Tour at Driscoll’s HQ in Watsonville - By Bradley Allen, Bradley Allen, March 31, 2016
• “Wendy’s has lost my respect as well as my patronage…” - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, March 31, 2016
• 5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto’s Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, March 29, 2016
• Global Agribusiness, Dependency and the Marginalisation of Self-Sufficiency, Organic Farming and Agroecology - By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, March 29, 2016
• HC&S sugar plantation in Hawaii to close - By Staff, ILWU Dispatcher, March 29, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Biotech Tree Company ArborGen Settles with Defrauded Employees - By Staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, April 1, 2016
• In Coal Blood: Feds Seek Maximum Sentence for Don Blankenship - By Russell Mokhiber, CounterPunch, March 30, 2016
• The Assassinations of Honduran Activists: Where Are the Roots of the Violence? - By Staff, Peaceful Uprising, March 29, 2016
• Averting Thousands of Vehicle Exhaust Deaths - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, March 29, 2016
• Thousands of Peru Mineworkers Struggle for Decent Work - By Oscar Muro, AFL-CIO Solidarity Center, March 29, 2016
• Malibu Toxic Schools Case Clears Hurdle for Trial - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, March 28, 2016

Greenwashers:

• Budget 2016 on pipelines, green infrastructure spending and climate - By Andrea Harden-Donahue, Rabble.Ca, March 31, 2016
• Response from Thorn Medical: “We request that you immediately remove any mention of us from the article on your website” - By Chris Lang, Redd Monitor, March 30, 2016
• We Denounce and Resist the Green Economy’s Impacts on Women and Forests - By Declaration, World Rainforest Movement, March 30, 2016
• A Chaotic Mess: State Water Board Suspends Delta Tunnels Deadlines - By Dan Bacher, DailyKos, March 29, 2016

Whistleblowers:

• Court Finds Cormorant Mass Killing Policy Illegal - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, March 30, 2016
• Again and again: supposed evidence for decoupling emissions from growth is not what it seems - By Mark Burton, DeGrowth, March 2016

Capital Blight:

• Helena Norberg-Hodge: Globalized Monoculture Is Consuming the Planet - By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, March 31, 2016
• Top Infrastructure Official Explains How America Used Highways To Destroy Black Neighborhoods - By Alan Pyke, Think Progress, March 31, 2016
• Colombia: Anti-Mining Occupation in Ninth Month of Resistance (english translation of Nueve meses de resistencia frente a la minería en Tasco, by Earth First!) - By María Paulina Baena Jaramillo, El Espectador, March 28, 2016
• Solar households now have to pay to use their own solar output - By Giles Parkinson, One Step Off The Grid, March 23, 2016
• The real population problem is too many capitalists (audio) - Simon Butler interviewed by Des Lawrence, Radio Adelaide, March 20, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

• Porter Ranch CEO got a $3 million bonus after a massive natural gas leak - By Katie Herzog, Grist, March 31, 2016
• Metro could shut down entire rail lines to do extended maintenance, board chair says - By Robert McCartney, Washington Post, March 30, 2016
• Despite leak, Sempra CEO gets higher bonus - By Bloomberg, Fuel Fix, March 28, 2016

The Man Behind the Curtain:

• Indicting the System with Noam Chomsky - By Andrew Smolski, CounterPunch, March 31, 2016 April 1, 2016
• State Investigations Into What Exxon Knew Double, and Exxon Gets Defensive - By Ben Jervey, DeSmog Blog, April 1, 2016
• Exxon is the one guilty of 'chilling' climate science! - By Louise Rouse and Naomi Ages, The Ecologist, March 31, 2016
• How Propaganda (Actually) Works - By James Hoggan, DeSmog Blog, March 31, 2016
• Oilpro.com founder indicted for hacking Rigzone - By Jordan Blum, Fuel Fix, March 31, 2016
• E.P.A. Busted for Laissez-faire Oversight of Fracking Poison Wells - By Sam Sacks, The District Sentinel, March 30, 2016
• #ExxonKnew: 17 Attorney Generals Now Investigating - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, March 30, 2016
• Top US attorneys step up probe into oil major ‘fraud’ - By Ed King, Climate Change News, March 30, 2016
• Turning Point in Climate Fight as AGs Unite to Target Exxon Crimes - By Lauren McCauley, CommonDreams, March 29, 2016

Wobbles:

• Narrabri Coal Mine Shut Down - By Phil Spark, Front Line Action on Coal, April 1, 2016
• Youth-led environmental movement seeks climate justice in Canada - By Alyse Kotyk, Rabble.Ca, March 30, 2016
• Divest McGill occupies administration office over decision to keep fossil fuel investments - By David Gray-Donald, Rabble.Ca, March 29, 2016

Other News:

• Noam Chomsky: The Republican Base Is "Out of Control" - By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, March 29, 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.

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.