EcoUnionist News #111

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 6, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

• How Oakland Defeated Coal - By Brentin Mock, CityLab, July 1, 2016
• The Remaking of the Global Working Class - By Beverly Silver, ROARMag, July 1, 2016
• From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods - By Ashish Kothari, Local Futures, June 30, 2016
• Gulf Coast Activists Tell 'Big Green' to Quit Exploiting Their Disasters for Financial Gain - By Yessenia Funes, Colorlines, June 30, 2016; [related]: An open letter demanding respect and solidarity - By Alicia Cooke, et. al., Radical Arts & Healing (RAHC) Collective, June 27, 2016
• Stopping a Climate Change and Pollution Nightmare in the East Bay - By Will Parrish, East Bay Express, June 28, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• In Defense of Mother Earth and Land - Oaxaca, MX: July 21-22, 2016
• Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
• March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
• Power Shift Southeast - Orlando, FL: September 9-11, 2016
• International Resistance Gathering Against Extractivism - July 28-30, Mexico
• TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

• Record-Breaking Opposition to Coal - By Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky, Columbia Riverkeeper, July 1, 2016
• Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline bites the dust - By Gregory Smith, EcoJustice, June 30, 2016; [related]: Northern Gateway Ruling Puts Tar Sands "At Risk" - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, July 4, 2016 | Victory for First Nations in Northern Gateway Fight - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, July 1, 2016 | Federal court overturns Northern Gateway pipeline approval - By Sophia Reuss, Rabble.Ca, June 30, 2016 | Northern Gateway pipeline approval overturned - By Jason Proctor, CBC News, June 30, 2016
• Oakland City Council Votes to Ban Coal Exports in Big Win for Local Advocates - By Zoe Loftus-Farren, Earth Island Journal, June 28, 2016; [related]: In our opinion: 2 initiatives mark Utah's energy upheaval - Editorial, Deseret News, June 30, 2016 | Oakland City Council unanimously supports ban on coal exports - By staff, Sierra Club Yodeler, June 29, 2016 | Oakland says no thanks to coal exports - By Katie Herzog, Grist, June 29, 2016 | Oakland council bans coal - By Erin Baldassari, San Jose Mercury News, June 28, 2016 | Oakland council bans coal shipments, citing health risks - By staff, Associated Press, June 28, 2016

Just Transition:

• Oil Sands Worker Inspires Calgarians to Embrace Renewables - By staff, Iron and Earth, July 5, 2016
• ISEA: Solar Energy Can Generate 7,300 Jobs & Slash EU Fines €300 Million A Year - By James Ayre, CleanTechnica, July 4, 2016
• The Stupid Thing About Politics & Jobs - By Zachary Shahan, CleanTechnica, July 1, 2016
• Swollen solar pipeline could make Texas 2nd largest utility-scale market in US - By Robert Walton, Utility Dive, June 30, 2016
• Teleseminar: Just Transition with Mateo Nube of Movement Generation [seminar] - By Mateo Nube, Resilience, June 30, 2016
• A new danger descends on Canada - By the Leap Manifesto, Rabble.Ca, June 28, 2016
• Alberta Coal Communities Worry For Their Future - By Ian Bickis, Huffington Post, June 22, 2016

Bread and Roses:

• North Carolina: "We will keep fighting until Publix comes on board!" - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, July 5, 2016
• Mother-of-Three Sues Monsanto Claiming Roundup Caused Her Cancer - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, July 1, 2016
• New Film about the Boycott of Driscoll’s & Familias Unidas por la Justicia - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 1, 2016
• Opinion: Traditional crops keep our culture alive - By Elizabeth Mpofu, La Via Campesina, July 1, 2016
• "We aren’t asking you to create the solution; The solution already exists…" - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, June 29, 2016
• More rain, less freshwater: Why the government of Ghana needs to stop coal expansion - By lerato, 350.org, June 28, 2016
• Herbicide, chemical fertilizer use doubled on Vermont dairy farms in a decade - By Anne Galloway, VTDigger, June 27, 2016
• The Fight Isn’t Over for Farm Worker Overtime - By David Bacon, Capital and Main, June 16, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• NUMSA media statement on Putco disputes - By Patrick Craven, NUMSA, July 5, 2016
• Teamsters and Taylor Farms. Boycotts are not enough - By Richard Mellor, Facts For Working People, July 2, 2016
• Average Workplace Safety Fine Less Than Cost of Funeral for Dead Worker - By Sam Sacks, Truthout, July 1, 2016
• ILWU leaders join global effort to hold Rio Tinto accountable - By staff, ILWU Dispatcher, June 30, 2016
• "Serious unsafe and defective systems" at 'World Class' Ramu mine - By Post Courier, Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, June 30, 2016
• Activist refuses to bow to fracking intimidation - By Audrey Glover and Alison Willis, Socialist Worker UK, June 28, 2016
• Dow Chemical to cut 2,500 jobs worldwide - By Bloomberg, FuelFix, June 28, 2016
• Indefinite strike demands justice for City cleaners - By Alistair Farrow, Socialist Worker UK, June 28, 2016
• Mill Closures ‘Heartbreaking,’ but Not Surprising - By Tristan Scott, Flathead Beacon, June 28, 2016
• RNRN Disaster Watch: Wildfire Season - By RN Response Network, National Nurses United, June 28, 2016

Wobbles:

• Frances Fox Piven on the Importance of Social Movements Being 'Unruly' [video] - By Jamie K. McCallum, In These Times, July 5, 2016
• US-Owned Gold and Silver Mine Closed in Guatemala - By Jornada Unam, Translated by Earth First! Journal, July 4, 2016
• Indigenous Youth Are Building a Climate Justice Movement by Targeting Colonialism - By Jaskiran Dhillon, Truthout, June 30, 2016
• Rebellion Spreads in Mexico After a Police Massacre - By James North, The Nation, June 30, 2016
• Tim DeChristopher Arrested Again in the "Age of Anticipatory Mass Graves" for Climate Victims -  Tim DeChristopher interviwed by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, June 30, 2016
• EXTRACTION! Ad Astra's comic book journalism tackles mining justice - By June Chua, Rabble.Ca, June 29, 2016
• Penco-Lirquén, Chile: "Octopus" LNG Project Approved Despite Massive Protests - By Resumen Chile, Translated by Earth First! Journal, June 29, 2016
• Diablo Canyon Shutdown Proves People Power Can Defeat Nuclear Power - By Mark Evanoff, Earth Island Journal, June 27, 2016

Other News:

• How One Urban Activist Community in Bolivia Thrives on 'Abundance For Everybody' - By Sian Cowman, Resilience, July 5, 2016
• AWA helps flood victims in Richwood, WV - By staff, Appalachian Workers Alliance, July 4, 2016
• 1199SEIU Secretary Treasurer Maria Castaneda Joins Riverkeeper’s Board of Directors - By Leah Rae and Mindy Berman, Riverkeeper, June 30, 2016
• New Novel Explores How Class Shapes the Debate Over Fracking - By Kara Holsopple, Allegheny Front, June 24, 2016
• Coming Home to Coal Country - By Rebecca Hersher and Shannon Heffernan, WBEX 91.5 FM, May 11, 2016

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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.