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EcoUnionist News #121
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 13, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- 150 Million Workers in India Just Staged the Largest Strike in History To Resist Neoliberalism – By Theo Anderson, In These Times, September 9, 2016; [related]: The Biggest Strike in World History? No Thanks, We’re Focusing on the New iPhone - By Jim Naureckas, Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, September 8, 2016 | Over 150 Million People Participate In Largest Labor Strike In History – By Eric Scott Pickard, Mint News Press, September 7, 2016
- Can We Bring Back Many Factory Jobs? Let’s Do the Math – By Frank Stricker, CounterPunch, September 8, 2016
- 45 Years After Attica, Prisoners Are Organizing What Could Be the Biggest Prison Strike Ever – By Anna Simonton, In These Times, September 8, 2016
- Political organization, not light bulbs, key to climate fight says Bill McKibben – By Joe Ware, New Internationalist, September 8, 2016
- The Rise of the Unorganizable - Jacobin, September 7, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- NoDAPL Global Weeks of Solidarity - September 3-17, Camp of the Sacred Stones and Red Warrior Camp, ND | #NoDAPL
- Free Space Utopia in Defense of Land - September 17-18, Genova, Italy
- Wendy’s Boycott Summit - Immokalee, FL: September 22-25, 2016
- Nyéléni Europe Movemet for Food Sovereignty - Cluj Napoca, Romania, October 26-30, 2016
- Lucas Plan 40th Anniversary - November 2016
The Thin Green Line:
- Opinion: Northwest communities can’t risk another oil train disaster – By Arlene Burns, Ben Stuckart, and Adrienne Fraley-Monillas, Seattle Times, September 7, 2016
Just Transition:
- Jobs in Renewable Energy: the importance of Community Ownership, and the growth of good union jobs under California’s policies - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, September 10, 2016
- Canadian Building organizations call for Zero Emissions by 2030, along with World Green Building Council; Vancouver and Victoria take action - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, September 6, 2016
- Massive support for community renewable energy - By Oliver Tickell, Ecologist, September 6, 2016
- Can the ‘new economy’ and labor movements come together again? - By Eric Dirnbach, Waging Nonviolence, August 31, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- We must reclaim our freedom from Monsanto like we did from the British – By Vandana Shiva, New Internationalist, September 8, 2016
- Farmworkers, allies announce ‘Behind the Braids’ national truth tours, weekend of action this fall! – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, September 8, 2016
- "More farmers, better food" – By Isabel Vilalba, La Via Campesina, September 7, 2016
- Bayer Increases Bid To Form GM and Pesticide ‘Juggernaut’ with Monsanto – By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, September 6, 2016
- From the archive: "Second Seattle" in Cancun (2003) – By Peter Rosset, La Via Campesina, September 6, 2016
- New Mexican farmers struggle to stay on the land – By J.R. Logan, Taos News, September 6, 2016
- "Take agriculture out of the WTO", Farmer Lee Kyung Hae; Reproducing his letter from 2003 – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 6, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- Federal Judge Finds Violation in Pennslvania’s Refusal to Treat Mumia’s Hep-C – By Dave Lindorff, CounterPunch, September 9, 2016
- No State Charges For Cops Who Shot And Killed Mexican Farmworker In Washington State – By Eric M. Johnson, Huffington Post, September 9, 2016
- Union faces £1 million bill for fighting Southern Rail firm – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 9, 2016
- BART could face additional fines for 2013 worker deaths – By Erin Baldassari, East Bay Times, September 7, 2016
- Tories bail out Southern rail bosses to bash the union – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 7, 2016
- Union Leadership Disputes Dominion Statement on Lockout – By staff, Clinton County Record, September 7, 2016
- Major job losses feared when self-driving cars take to the road; Former SEIU Pres Andy Stern Says Plan Ahead – By David R. Baker and Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, September 6, 2016
Wobbles:
- Dublin, Ireland bus workers start series of strikes – By Dermot Byrne, World Socialist Web Site, September 10, 2016
- Fighting for free public transit in Canada's largest city – By Scott Neigh, Rabble.Ca, September 7, 2016
- Tower Transit strikers stop London buses – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 7, 2016
- Train guards strike to protect safety on Southern rail – By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), September 7, 2016
- Black Lives Matter protest disrupts London City Airport – By staff, Al Jazeera, September 6, 2016; [related]: Did the Black Lives Matter climate protest backfire? – By Ed King, Climate Change News, September 7, 2016 | Black Lives Matter Shuts Down London’s City Airport – By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, September 6, 2016 | Nine Black Lives Matter protesters arrested after City airport travel chaos – By Jamie Grierson, Damien Gayle and Matthew Weaver, The Guardian, September 6, 2016
- Chile: Construction Crane Scaled, Banner Dropped “Biobio Rising” – By Resumen.cl, translated by Earth First! Journal, September 6, 2016
- Platinum, palladium prices pop as pay talks peter out – By Frik Els, Mining.Com, September 5, 2016
Other News:
- Visitors invited to experience living mine war in Matewan – By Daniel Tyson, Wyoming County Register-Herald, September 7, 2016
- Think you know the price of oil? Think again – By Daryn Caister, Rabble.Ca, September 6, 2016
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