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EcoUnionist News #113
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 19, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Lac Mégantic Cries for Help – By Krystle Alarcon, National Observer, July 14, 2016
- Post-Brexit Britain: navigating the culture war – By Joseph Todd, ROARmag, July 13, 2016
- The ‘new colonialism’: Rio Tinto in Madagascar – By Ross Hemingway, Red Pepper, July 12, 2016; [related]: Canadian gold mining firm embroiled in labour dispute and corruption allegations in Mauritania – By Yves Engler, Rabble.Ca, July 12, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- In Defense of Mother Earth and Land - Oaxaca, MX: July 21-22, 2016
- March on the Mansion - Richmond, VA, July 23, 2016
- March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
- International Resistance Gathering Against Extractivism - July 28-30, Mexico
- Mount Polley Mine Resistance Gathering - Canada, August 4, 2016 | #ImperialNoMore
- TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016
- Climate Camp and Degrowth Summer - Rheinland, August 19-29, 2016
- Power Shift Southeast - Orlando, FL: September 9-11, 2016
- Wendy’s Boycott Summit - Immokalee, FL: September 22-25, 2016
- Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary - November 2016
The Thin Green Line:
- Northwest Tribes Band Together to Stop Oil-by-Rail – By Ralph Schwartz, Yes!, July 12, 2016
- No Coal in Oakland featured on Arise! with Bill Fletcher (audio) – Lora Jo Foo, Rev. Ken Chambers, and Derrick Muhammad interviewed by Bill Fletcher, KPFA 94.1 FM, July 1, 2016
Just Transition:
- 27,000 New Jobs By 2021 Due To Solar & Energy Storage – By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, July 15, 2016
- A Green Transition Can Preserve the Livelihood of Workers (audio) – Robert Pollin interviewed by Paul Jay, The Real News Network, July 14, 2016
- Oil Sands Workers Sign Historic MOU With Offshore Wind Energy Company – By Devin Tepleski, Iron and Earth, July 13, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- The enforcement imperative at the heart of Worker-driven Social Responsibility… – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, July 17, 2016
- March celebrates historic progress at Sakuma – By David Groves, The Stand, July 14, 2016; [related]: 4 Years of Struggle: Workers March and Rally at Sakuma Farms – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 13, 2016 | FUJ marches to Sakuma Bros. farms to urge FAIR, GOOD-FAITH negotiations for a union contract – By John Nichols, Farm Worker Ministry-Northwest, July 13, 2016 | Hundreds of Consumers and Boycott Supporters March With Farm Workers to Sakuma Farms – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 12, 2016 | Sakuma berry farm proposes vote on union – By Don Jenkins, Capital Press, July 12, 2016
- Markets don't regulate, markets speculate – By staff, La Via Campesina, July 14, 2016
- Biodiversity, GMOs, Gene Drives and the Militarized Mind – By Vandana Shiva, Common Dreams, July 10, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Workers and chemicals: 12th ETUI seminar – By staff, European Trade Union Institute, July 14, 2016
- The Liberal record on asbestos so far worse than the Conservatives' – By Gerry Caplan, Rabble.Ca, July 13, 2016
- Marathon Oil sued over use of workers’ health care funds – By LM Sixel, FuelFix, July 13, 2016
- Migrant workers die at Birmingham recycling site – By Simon Basketter, Socialist Worker (UK), July 12, 2016
- Rail bosses threaten safety with their lies – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), July 12, 2016
- An Update from the Recent Floods – By staff, RAMPS, July 12, 2016
- National Nurses United Petitions Federal OSHA for Workplace Violence Prevention Standard – By staff, National Nurses United, July 11, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- National parks punt on overcrowding – By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, July 14, 2016
Wobbles:
- Brazil: 25 Buildings Occupied in Mass Indigenous Mobilization – By Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil, translated by Earth First! Journal, July 16, 2016
- Amid Mounting Controversy, BLM Halts New Mexico Fossil Fuel Auction – By Eleanor Bravo, et. al., Food & Water Watch, et. al., July 13, 2016
- Ban the Bomb Trains Week of Action ends with a bang! – By Drew Hudson, Environmental Action, July 12, 2016
- Virginia Activists Inspired by Recent Victories Over Pipelines – By Mark Hand, DC Media Group, July 12, 2016
Other News:
- Unite union backs Trident renewal as delegates denounce Len McCluskey's 'fudge' – By Dave Sewell, Socialist Worker (UK), July 12, 2016
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