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EcoUnionist News #104 - Special #BreakingFree 2016 Edition
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 17, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- LIVE BLOG: Climate Resistance Breaks Free from Fossil Fuels - By staff, Rising Tide North America, May 14, 2016; [related]: Climate Resistance Escalates Against the Fossil Fuel Empire - By staff, Rising Tide North America, May 14, 2016
- Break Free or Burn in Hell: a Message From the Canadian Tar Sands - By Paul Street, CounterPunch, May 9, 2016
- Exxon scrambles to contain climate crusade - By Andrew Restuccia and Elana Schor, Politico, May 9, 2016
- Is a Fear of Death at the Heart of Capitalism? - By James K. Rowe, The Arrow, April 28, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- It’s Time For the Rubber Stamp Rebellion - May 15-22, 2016 | #NoNewPermits #NoPipelines #NoLNG
- March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
- TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016
The Thin Green Line:
- Editorial: If coal is too dirty for the U.S., why would Oakland build a dock to export it to Asia? - By The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, May 9, 2016
- Demonstrators rally in South Philly against refinery expansion - By Dustin Slaughter, Billypenn, May 8, 2016
Just Transition:
- Responding to economic critiques of the Leap Manifesto - By The Redeye Collective, Rabble.Ca, May 11, 2016
- World’s vulnerable must be at the heart of a low carbon transition - By Teresa Ribera and Michael Zammit Cutajar, Climate Change News, May 11, 2016
- Denmark Is Kicking Its Fossil Fuel Habit. Can the Rest of the World Follow? - By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News, May 10, 2016
- Geothermal Could Put Thousands from Alberta’s Oil and Gas Sector Back to Work - By Carol Linnitt, DeSmog Canada, May 3, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), representing millions, becomes the first major Christian denomination to endorse the Wendy’s boycott! - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, May 13, 2016; [related]: Official new Wendy’s Boycott website up and running, including a call for endorsements! - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, May 11, 2016
- Nebraska farmer leaders in Keystone XL battle call for 100% clean energy for all - By Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, May 12, 2016
- Day of Action in Support of Familias Unidas and San Quintin, MX Farmworkers - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, May 11, 2016; [related]: Driscoll's Workers Call for Global Boycott over Alleged Abuses at World's Biggest Berry Distributor - By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, May 6, 2016
- Children in Farm Communities Pay a Steep Price for the Food We Eat - By Elizabeth Grossman, Civil Eats, May 10, 2016
- Brexit or Bremain: Collected Opinions and Resources - By Lynne Davis, Landworkers Alliance, May 9, 2016
- Vietnam police break up protest over fish deaths - By staff and wire, Al Jazeera, May 9, 2016
- Industry benefits but does not pay its dues; Patents are an assault on genetic resources - By Guy Kastler, Agricultures, May 6, 2016
- What Killed Jack McCall? A California Farmer Dies and a Case Against Monsanto Takes Root - By Carey Gillam, Huffington Post, May 6, 2016
- After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise - By Leah Penniman, Yes!, May 5, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Federal Toxics Law Still Protecting the Chemical Industry’s Dirty Secrets - By Melanie Benesh, EcoWatch, May 13, 2016
- ‘Indescribable injustice’ - By Ken Ward Jr., Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 13, 2016
- Revision of European legislation on occupational cancers: only a small step forward - By staff, European Trade Union Institute, May 13, 2016
- Worker Killed at Exxon Refinery - By Meagan Parrish, Chem.Info, May 12, 2016
- Don't let the Fort Mac fire turn into feel-good boosterism for the extractive industry; They knew this was coming - By Nora Loreto and Sarah Beuhler, Rabble.Ca, May 9, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- Is the EPA Being Pressured? Environmental Concerns About Syngenta Chemical Removed From EPA Site - By Lisa Graves, PR Watch, May 11, 2016
- Whistleblower Fired for Exposing Flint Mayor’s Plan to Take Water Donations - By Llowell Williams, Care2, May 11, 2016
Wobbles:
- Albany protest: 5 arrested after oil train delayed - By Lindsay Ellis, Albany Times Union, May 14, 2016; [related]: Protest Against Crude Oil Trains Brings Thousands to Capital Region - By Jim Vasil, Time Warner Cable News, May 14, 2016
- “Keep it in the Ground” protest interrupts BLM in Denver - By Sage Grouse Rebel, Canyon Country Rising Tide, May 14, 2016; [related]: Protests against drilling on public lands are escalating - By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News, May 13, 2016; [and]: Hundreds Protest Federal Fracking Auction in Colorado - By Valerie Love, et. al., Center for Biological Diversity, et. al., May 12, 2016
- Protesters In Washington Blockade Tracks to Refinery - By Associated Press, KOMO TV (ABC 4), May 14, 2016; [related]: ‘Kayaktivists’ plan massive fossil fuel protest in Anacortes - By Steve Kiggins, Fox Q13, May 13, 2016
- Rubber Stamp Rebellion Targets FERC & The Corporations It Serves - By Beyond Extreme Energy, Popular Resistance, May 14, 2016
- Faced With a Fracking Giant, This Small Town Just Legalized Civil Disobedience - By Kate Stringer, Yes!, May 13, 2016; [related]: Pennsylvania Township Legalizes Civil Disobedience - By Chad Nicholson and Stacy Long, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, May 3, 2016
- UK Activists to Shut Down One of Europe’s Biggest Coal Mines - By Ellen, Reclaim the Power, May 13, 2016; [related]: #BreakFree2016: Activists Shut Down World’s Largest Coal Port - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, May 9, 2016; [and]: A red line in Merthyr’s dirty opencast coal mine - By Russell Warfield, New Internationalist, May 9, 2016
- In Colorado 'Sacrifice Zone,' Break Free Protest Escalates Fight Against Fossil Fuels - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 12, 2016
- Activists blockade Wellington ANZ branch, demand fossil fuel divestment - By Matt Stewart, Stuff NZ, May 11, 2016
- The El Niño message: break free from fossil fuels - By Nick Meynen, Environmental Justice Organisations, Liabilities and Trade, May 11, 2016
- 4 Reasons Why It’s Time to Break Free - By Annie Leonard, EcoWatch, May 11, 2016
- This Weekend, Anacortes Will Be Ground Zero For Climate Resistance - By Sara Bernard, Seattle Weekly, May 10, 2016
- Climate protestors close down Newcastle coal port for #Breakfree2016 as Federal election called - By John Englart, Climate Citizen, May 9, 2016
- This is what the largest civil disobedience in the history of the environmental movement looks like in Europe - By Melanie Mattauch, 350.org, May 9, 2016
Other News:
- US court rejects coal CEO Blankenship bid to remain free during appeal - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, May 12, 2016
- The Self-Indulgence of Prioritizing Income Equality While Ignoring US Militarism in the Era of Climate Change - By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Counterpunch, May 10, 2016
- NRG to Lay Off 500 Employees With Restructuring of Its Home Solar Business - By Julia Pyper, Green Tech Media, May 9, 2016
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