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EcoUnionist News #114
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 27, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Former cleanup workers blame illnesses on toxic coal ash exposures – By Kristen Lombardi, Center for Public Integrity, July 20, 2016
- Why Now Is the Perfect Time For a Radical Labor Movement – By Saqib Bhatti and Stephen Lerner, In These Times, July 19, 2016
- Soaring Temperatures Will Make It Too Hot to Work, UN Warns – By Jessica Shankleman and Kambiz Foroohar, Bloomberg, July 18, 2016; [related]: Extreme heat is exhausting and expensive – By Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist, July 21, 2016 | Scorching heat is driving down economic productivity around the world – By Brady Dennis, Washington Post, July 19, 2016
- Nation’s Largest Teachers Union Endorses Teaching “Climate Justice” – By Bill Bigelow, Huffington Post, July 16, 2016
- CalSTRS moves $2.5 billion into low-carbon fund – By Robert Silvey, Fossil Free California, July 15, 2016
- The World’s Most Invisible Workers Plan to Revolutionize Labor for Millions – By Carlin Carr, Next City, July 4, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- 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
- United Students Against Sweatshops Summer Convention - August 13-14, 2016, Silver Spring, MD
- 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:
- Alameda Becomes Fifth California County to Ban Fracking – By Dan Bacher, Daily Kos, July 19, 2016
- Protesters Call for a Halt to Three Massachusetts Pipeline Projects – By Phil McKenna, InsideClimate News, July 19, 2016
- Vancouver City Council Votes Unanimously to Prohibit Future Oil Projects – By Stand Up To Oil, Columbia Riverkeeper, July 18, 2016
Just Transition:
- Here’s how a post-coal Appalachia could thrive – By Jeremy Deaton, Grist, July 25, 2016; [related]: On “In the Black” by Gary Bentley – By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, July 25, 2016
- Now It’s Time to Take Care of Workers – By Anne Hedges, Montana Environmental Information Center, July 25, 2016
- Transforming Wyoming into wind energy leader comes with challenges – By Benjamin Storrow, Casper Star Tribune, July 23, 2016
- Off-Grid LED Lighting Could Create 2 Million Jobs – By Katherine Tweed, Greentech Media, July 22, 2016
- Renewable Energy Training Opportunities for Vets and Displaced Fossil Energy Workers – By Jennifer Runyon, Renewable Energy World, July 20, 2016
- Green transformation is a political project, not an economic one – By Lili Fuhr, The Ecologist, July 19, 2016
- Wind Manufacturing Booms In Colorado, Stalls In Wyoming – By Leigh Paterson, Inside Energy, July 19, 2016
- 66,000 Pennsylvanians Employed In Clean Energy Jobs – By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, July 18, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- What is a corporation to do if it is looking to partner with a real social responsibility program? – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, July 25, 2016
- Farmworkers Return to Sakuma Fields – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 21, 2016; [related]: Farmworkers Walk Out of Sakuma Fields – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 20, 2016 | Meeting with Sakuma, the boycott continues! – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 20, 2016
- Nairobi: Via Campesina mobilise around UNCTAD 14th Session – By Ndabezinhle Nyoni and David Cidi Otieno, La Via Campesina, July 20, 2016
- LVC Declaration on Trade, Markets and Development – By staff, La Via Campesina, July 19, 2016
- Glyphosate Causes Changes to DNA Function Resulting in Chronic Disease, According to Study – By staff, Beyond Pesticides, July 18, 2016
- 18 Years of SPI: Celebrations across Indonesia – By staff, La Via Campesina, July 18, 2016
- Poor Farmers Mustn’t Be the Losers in the Fight Against Climate Change – By Kelly Stone, Food Tank, July 18, 2016
- Women peasants in South Korea on a nationwide protest tour – By staff, La Via Campesina, July 18, 2016
- The uncertain future for food and farming in the UK – By Patrick Holden, Sustainable Food Trust, July 15, 2016
- As farmers in Connecticut age, market for niche products grows – By Anna Bisaro, New Haven Register, July 9, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- How coal miners die on the job – By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, July 25, 2016
- Insult to Injury: As Britain Prepares to Leave the EU, Solar Installers Shed More Than 12,000 Jobs – By Stephen Lacey, Greentech Media, July 25, 2016
- Black Lives Matter Kalamazoo – By staff, Fen Valley Earth First!, July 23, 2016; [related]: Environmental injustice and police violence are a dangerous combo – By Brentin Mock, Grist, July 21, 2016 | The importance of Black Lives Matter in a white rural West – By Neil LaRubbio, High Country News, July 21, 2016
- Does Justice campaign not care about the fines? – By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, July 22, 2016
- National Park Service Leadership Shaken not Stirred – By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, July 20, 2016
- Protesters Block Mendocino Redwood Company Logging Trucks at Mill Site – By Mendocino Forest Defenders, Earth First! Newswire, July 20, 2016
- Bus strikes could spread much wider – By staff, Socialist Worker (UK), July 19, 2016
- Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada Topic of Book by GJEP Board Member – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, July 19, 2016
- Turkey: angry coal miners protest against privatization – By staff, IndustriALL, July 14, 2016
- Brexit means the green movement could go somewhere nasty on immigration. Here is why it shouldn’t – By staff, Climate Change and Migration Coalition, July 6, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- BLM Bound to Betray Nevada Desert Monument – By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, July 20, 2016
- Whistleblowers: Nuke Watchdogs Not Doing Enough to Prevent Canadian Fukushima – By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, July 20, 2016; [related]: Letter claims info on nuclear risks withheld from safety commissioners – By Gloria Galloway, The Globe and Mail, July 18, 2016
- Former Inspectors Describe Dangerous Flaws in Construction of Major East Coast Gas Pipeline – By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog, July 19, 2016
Wobbles:
- Thousands March In Philadelphia Kicking Off Vocal Week Of Protests At DNC – By William Fowler, Occupy.Com, July 25, 2016; [realted]: 10,000 March in Philly Calling for a Clean Energy Revolution – By Sandra Steingraber, EcoWatch, July 25, 2016 | "We Want to Stop Fracking Now": Up to 10,000 Rally on Eve of DNC to Demand Climate Justice – By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now!, July 25, 2016 | Women Speak Out: At the DNC For Justice, Survival and A Living Wage – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, July 25, 2016 | Hundreds March To Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership In Philly – By Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, July 24, 2016
- Keep It in the Ground: Idaho BLM Oil & Gas Lease Protest 2 – By staff, Wild Idaho Rising Tide, July 24, 2016
- Guatemala: Neighbors Blockade Mining Equipment in Jutiapa – By No a la Mina, Translated by Earth First! Journal, July 22, 2016
- Blockaders say Democratic Party fails people and climate – By staff, Beyond Extreme Energy, July 21, 2016; [related]: Beyond Extreme Energy disrupts FERC, locks down at Democratic Party HQ – By staff, DC Direct Action News, July 22, 2016
- Fracking and immigration activists unite 60 feet above the RNC – By Aura Bogado, Grist, July 19, 2016
- How the Keep it in the Ground movement came to be – By Kate Schimel, High Country News, July 19, 2016
- 53 Arrested Protesting Gas Storage Near Seneca Lake – By Sandra Steingraber, EcoWatch, July 18, 2016
- People's Justice and Peace Convention, Protests Mark RNC's Opening Weekend – By Candice Bernd and Britney Schultz, Truthout, July 18, 2016
- Venezuela: Seized Factory Was Well Stocked but Wasn't Producing – By staff, Telesur, July 16, 2016
Other News:
- Workers say force majeure by Exxon Mobil in Nigeria may last weeks – By Associated Press, FuelFix, July 22, 2016
- Jobs and growth: “Nothing ugly about wind farms,” says Andrews govt – By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, July 19, 2016
- New Solar Workforce Development Program Aims To Meet Growing Solar Labor Demand – By Derek Markham, Clean Technica, July 19, 2016
- Clean energy won’t save us; only a new economic system can – By Jason Hickel, The Guardian, July 15, 2016
- Connecting the Dots the P2P Way: The Commons as the Response to the Structural Crises of the Global System – By Michel Bauwens, Truthout, June 6, 2016
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