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EcoUnionist News #117
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 17, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Thousands gather in Montreal for World Social Forum – By Pierre Beaudet, Rabble.Ca, August 10, 2016; [related]: CKUT-FM Interviews GJEP on Corporatist Solutions to Climate Crisis – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, August 12, 2016 | Ears on the earth: Taking the next leap – By Victoria Fenner, Rabble.Ca, August 12, 2016 | (Sojourner Truth Radio) Earth Watch: Njoki Njoroge Njehu from the World Social Forum – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, August 12, 2016 | World Social Forum creates community, activism, and controversy – By Emily Blake, Rabble.Ca, August 12, 2016 | Here's a quick list of everything happening at the World Social Forum – By staff, Rabble.Ca, August 11, 2016 | Leap Manifesto stars at World Social Forum – By Emily Blake, Rabble.Ca, August 11, 2016 | World Social Forum 2016: Day 1 Highlights – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 11, 2016 | Ears on the earth: Releasing the corporate stranglehold – By Victoria Fenner, Rabble.Ca, August 10, 2016 | The 2016 World Social Forum begins in Montreal – By Emily Blake, Rabble.Ca, August 10, 2016 | Candidate for UN secretary general among those denied visa to Montreal's World Social Forum – By Melissa Fundira, CBC News, August 9, 2016 | Ears on the earth: The World Social Forum begins – By Victoria Fenner, Rabble.Ca, August 9, 2016 | World Social Forum in Montreal: "Another World Is Once Again Being Constructed Without Africa" – By Danica Jorden, ZNet, August 9, 2016 | Will World Social Forum become leader the Left needs? – By Nick Fillmore, A Different Point of View..., August 8, 2016
- What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar? – By Joshua M. Pearce, Harvard Business Review, August 8, 2016 [related]: US solar industry hailed as ‘light at end of tunnel’ for jobless coal miners – By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, August 12, 2016 | One Year of a Coal CEO's Salary Could Transition U.S. Coal Miners to Work in Solar Industry – By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, August 11, 2016 | What to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study – By Heather Smith, Grist, August 10, 2016 | Relatively Minor Retraining Investment Could Transition All Coal Workers To Solar Jobs – By Derek Markham, Clean Technica, August 10, 2016 | What to do with coal workers? Retrain them for solar, says study – By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, August 10, 2016 | One Year of Coal CEO Pay Could Retrain Every US Miner to Work in the Solar Industry – By Katherine Tweed, GreenTechMedia, August 9, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- 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:
- Judge: No Constitutional Problem in Oregon’s Denial of Columbia River Coal Export Terminal – By staff, Columbia Riverkeeper, August 12, 2016
- Whatcom County puts new unrefined fossil fuel exports on hold – By Samantha Wohlfeil, The Bellingham Herald, August 10, 2016; [related]: Here’s the latest community to crack down on fossil fuel shipments – By Katie Herzog, Grist, August 11, 2016 | Cherry Point Coal, Oil and Gas Exports Would Create Massive New Carbon Pollution – By Alex Ramel, Stand, August 10, 2016 | Emergency Moratorium Stops All Unrefined Oil, Coal, and LNG Export Infrastructure Projects in Whatcom County, WA – By Eddie Scher, Stand, August 10, 2016 | Whatcom County Imposed 60 Day Moratorium On Unrefined Oil Projects – By Roy L Hales, The ECOReport, August 10, 2016
Just Transition:
- Basic Income vs. Job Guarantee – By Josh Davis, Grassroots Economic Organizing, August 11, 2016
- Dual Power as the Route to Democratic Socialism, Sanders or No Sanders – By Andrew Stewart, CounterPunch, August 11, 2016
- A vision of democratic ecosocialism – By Hans Baer, Climate and Capitalism, August 10, 2016
- Crude oil to carrots: Geothermal makeover eyed for Alberta’s old wells – By Reuters, Toronto Globe and Mail, August 9, 2016
- Renewables offer “unrivalled opportunity” to grow rural jobs, economies – By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, August 9, 2016
- U.S. must bury coal to save miner jobs: Interior secretary – By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters, August 9, 2016
- When Systems Crumble: Looking Beyond Global Capitalism – By Richard D. Wolff, Truthout, August 9, 2016
- Why I spoke at the Clean Energy Incentive Program Rally in Chicago – By Dick Breckenridge, BlueGreen Alliance, August 9, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- Millions spent, no one served: who is to blame for the failure of GMO Golden Rice? – By Angelika Hilbeck and Hans Herren, The Ecologist, August 15, 2016
- Monsanto in retreat: movement from the grassroots – By Silvia Ribeiro, Alainet, August 11, 2016
- Sakuma Workers Walk Out of Fields Again to Fight for a Fair Wage – By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 11, 2016
- In South Texas, Fair Wages Elude Farmworkers, 50 Years After Historic Strike – By John Burnett, NPR, August 11, 2016
- Statement from the Popular University of Social Movements Workshop held at Harare – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 11, 2016
- Tribunal Monsanto in The Hague: 14th-16th of October 2016 – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 10, 2016
- Take Action: Demand justice for Baek Nam-gi – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 10, 2016
- Farmers Dealing with Fall-Out from Monsanto’s New GE Crops – By staff, Beyond Pesticides, August 9, 2016
- Karnataka, India: Workshop on agroecology at Amritabhoomi – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 9, 2016
- Urgent Appeal and Call for Action from Korea – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 9, 2016
- “Dear Wendy’s: I’m Boycotting You, but I’m Not the One You Should Be Worried About…” – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, August 8, 2016
- Contractual, ‘pakyawan’ workers in Mindanao plantations urge DOLE to act on labor rights violations – By Marya Salamat, Bulatat, July 29, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Fire Departments, Airports and Military Bases May Be More Toxic to Workers Than You Think – By Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times, August 11, 2016
- Thank you Nicolas; farmworker, friend and tireless fighter for humanity – By staff, La Via Campesina, August 10, 2016
- Unpaid Workers Are Still Fighting For Their Rights In The UAE – By Justin Salhani, Think Progress, August 10, 2016
- What Employers Should Do to Protect Nurses from ZIKA – By Pattie Lockard, Nurse Talk Radio, August 10, 2016
- NUMSA statement on the Deadlock at Eskom – By Irvin Jim, NUMSA, August 8, 2016; [related]: Eskom wages strike will ‘damage business’, union threatens – By Karl Gernetzky, Business Day, July 29, 2016
Whistleblowers:
- Alaska Game Agents Decimate National Park Wolf Packs – By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, August 8, 2016
Wobbles:
- Event: Hull’s oily sponsor – By staff, BP or Not BP?, August 12, 2016
- North Dakota’s Standing Rock Sioux aren’t backing down to oil pipeline developers – By Sarah Aziza, Waging Nonviolence, August 12, 2016; [related]: Pipeline Resistance Encampment Swells; Prepares for More Action – By staff, Unicorn Riot, August 14, 2016 | Lakota Lead Native Americans, Ranchers and Farmers in Fight Against Dakota Access Pipeline – By Jason Coppola, Truthout, August 13, 2016 | Arrests Continue a Mile from Standing Rock Indian Reservation as 250 American Indians Protest Pipeline – By Levi Rickert, Native News Online, August 12, 2016 | Fight to Protect Land & Water Intensifies Around Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline – By Staff, Unicorn Riot, August 12, 2016 | Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault arrested at Dakota Access Pipeline protest – By Lauren Donovan, Bismarck Tribune, August 12, 2016 | North Dakota Law Enforcement Just Moved Into A Native American Pipeline Protest – By Alejandro Dávila Fragoso, Think Progress, August 11, 2016 | Ten move beyond 'legal' protest boundaries – By Caroline Grueskin, Bismarck Tribune, August 11, 2016 | Protest of Dakota Access Pipeline construction continues along Missouri River – By Anthony Humes, KFYR Fox TV 5, August 10, 2016
- Indigenous Truth Rising: A Journey for Climate Justice – By John Foran, Resilience, August 11, 2016
- Mount Polley a 'disaster' that 'needs to be shut down' says Imperial No More activist – By Alyse Kotyk, Rabble.Ca, August 11, 2016; [related]: Imperial Metals office in Vancouver occupied – By Zig Zag, Warrior Publications, August 9, 2016 | Video of arrests at Imperial Metals occupation in Vancouver – By Zig Zag, Warrior Publications, August 9, 2016
- The UK Faces its Longest Train Strike in 50 Years – By Catherine Hardy, Euronews, August 8, 2016; [related]: Bosses in disarray after Southern Rail strike – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), August 9, 2016 | WFTU in Solidarity with RMT and railway workers in Southern Rail – By secretariat, World Federation of Trade Unions, August 9, 2016 | Southern Rail passengers face chaos as ministers attack union leaders over longest strike for 50 years – By Peter Dominiczak, Telegraph, August 8, 2016
- AARP to Drop Membership to Right-Wing Lobby Group ALEC After Progressive Groups Apply Pressure – By Steven Rosenfeld, Alternet, August 5, 2016
- "Stop Brazil’s Genocide": Brazil blocks dangerous dam – By staff, Survival International, August 5, 2016
Other News:
- SunPower Shares Plummet 30% On Massive Guidance Downgrading & 1,200 Job Cuts – By Joshua S Hill, Clean Technica, August 10, 2016
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