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EcoUnionist News #122
Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 20, 2016
The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:
Lead Stories:
- Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky – By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, September 17, 2016
- The Climate Mobilization Victory Plan: Foreword – By Paul Gilding, The Climate Mobilization, September 16, 2016
- French police fire tear gas at labor reform protesters – By Brian Love, Reuters, September 15, 2016; [related]: French Workers Step Up Labor Strikes: “With This Law, We’re Going Toward a Catastrophe” – By Cole Stangler, In These Times, September 14, 2016
- Guess Who’s Winning the Argument on Trade? – By Kathy Kiely, Moyers and Company, September 15, 2016
- Political declaration: International Meeting of the Struggling Youth: Women of Kobane – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 15, 2016
- #PrisonStrike Was Huge and It Is Continuing – By Support Prisoner Resistance, It's Going Down, September 14, 2016; [related]: Here's What's Gone Down So Far in Three Days of America's Largest Prison Strikes – By Jeremy Galloway, The Influence, September 12, 2016
Ongoing Mobilizations:
- Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
- 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:
- Anti-pipeline Movement Gathers Steam – By Chuck Collins, OtherWords, September 14, 2016
- Hundreds rally for and against methanol plant – By Marissa Luck, Daily News, September 14, 2016
- Rail proposal draws fire – By Jesse Burkhardt, The Dalles Chronicle, September 9, 2016
- This “Gas Highway” Is Angering Everyone in Its Path – By Christiana Lilly, Climate Desk, September 8, 2016
Just Transition:
- How do we get off fossil fuels when we’ve always feared change? – By Nathanael Johnson, Grist, September 13, 2016
Bread and Roses:
- California Farmworkers Win Equal Overtime: “This Bill Corrects 78 Years of Discrimination” – By Mario Vasquez, In These Times, September 16, 2016; [related]: California first U.S. state to promise overtime to farmworkers – By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters, September 12, 2016 | In historic move, Gov. Jerry Brown expands overtime pay for California farmworkers – By Jazmine Ulloa and John Myers, Los Angeles Times, September 12, 2016
- Monsanto and Bayer: Why Food and Agriculture Just Took a Turn For The Worse – By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, September 16, 2016; [related]: International Criminal Court Paves Way to Prosecute Monsanto – By Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association, September 15, 2016 | Bayer to Buy Monsanto Creating World's Largest Seed and Pesticide Company – By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, September 14, 2016 | Big deal: Bayer getting Monsanto for $66B – By Nathan Bomey, USA Today, September 14, 2016 | Farmers Union Condemns Bayer/Monsanto Deal – By Andrew Jerome, Institute for Public Accuracy, September 14, 2016 | International Monsanto Citizens’ Tribunal Names New Judges, Announces Program and Registration – By Tjerk Dalhuisen, Katherine Paul, and Ercilia Sahores, Organic Consumers Association, September 14, 2016
- International Mission of Solidarity with Colombia – By staff, La Via Campesina, September 15, 2016
- A union victory in Sakuma's fields – By Steve Leigh, Socialist Worker, September 15, 2016
- Even Organic Farms Sacrifice Sustainability to Cut Costs – By Jill Richardson, OtherWords, September 14, 2016
- No Labor Day holiday respite for Wendy’s! – By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, September 12, 2016
An Injury to One is an Injury to All:
- After wage cases, energy sector makes biggest payouts to employees – By LM Sixel, FuelFix, September 15, 2016
- Transit workers vote down proposed contract – By Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 12, 2016
Whistle Blowers:
- $90 Billion Whistleblower Suit Filed Against Four of the Nation's Largest Chemical Companies – By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, September 16, 2016
- Why Do Oil Trains Derail More Often than Ethanol Trains? – By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, September 15, 2016; [related]: Bomb Trains: What Can We Learn From Shipping Ethanol to Improve Oil-By-Rail Safety? – By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, September 14, 2016
- A Pipeline By A Different Name: Algonquin – By Christine Macpherson, Articulate Ink, September 12, 2016
Wobbles:
- Peru: Community Paralyzes Buenavantura Mining Operations – By Redaccion La Mula, translated by Earth First! Journal, September 17, 2016
- Strike ends at Anglo American Los Bronces mine in Chile – By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, September 16, 2016; [related]: Los Bronces miners down tools – By Andrew Topf, Mining.Com, September 11, 2016
- Arrests After #KeepItInTheGround Activists Occupy Interior Department – By Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams, September 15, 2016; [related]: 'Keep it in the Ground' Movement Delivers 1 Million Signatures to White House Calling for End to New Federal Fossil Fuel Leasing – By Valerie Love, Center for Biological Diversity, September 15, 2016 | More Than 40 Frontline, Indigenous, Climate Leaders Occupy Interior Department Headquarters to Demand President Obama End Fossil Fuel Lease Sales – By Valerie Love, Center for Biological Diversity, September 15, 2016 | Police arrest 13 at U.S. Interior Dept. oil, gas lease protest – By Timothy Gardner, Reuters, September 15, 2016
- Pipeline opponents to appeal Public Service Board ruling – By Rachel Karcz, NBC WPTZ TV 5, September 14, 2016
- RMT CALL FOR GENERAL STRIKE – to confront Trade Union Act! – By staff, Workers Revolutionary Party, September 14, 2016
- Solidarity with Black Lives Matter UK shutdown at City Airport – By Richard, London Mining Network, September 14, 2016; [related]: Solidarity with Black Lives Matter UK shutdown at City Airport – By Bobby, Reclaim the Power, September 13, 2016
- Big agriculture backs down from attack on Cali fishing – By Dan Bacher, Red, Green, and Blue, September 12, 2016
- October 1st: Stay Grounded, Mass Action Against Aviation – By anonymous, Plane Stupid, September 12, 2016
- RCMP 'neutral' as AltaGas and Mi'kmaq protesters spar over island – By The Canadian Press, CTV News, September 12, 2016
- Solidarity Protests Against Site C Reach Montreal – By Roy L Hales, The ECOreport, September 12, 2016
- Honduran Police Clash with Students at Anti-Privatization Protest – By staff, Telesur, September 9, 2016
Other News:
- Does Renewable Energy Raise Electricity Prices? – By Daniel Fleischmann, Renewable Energy World, September 13, 2016
- Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits – By Cynthia Kaufman, Common Dreams, September 12, 2016
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