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CP Rail conductor in Banff derailment to return to work (and) An Open Letter to HH, CEO of CP RAIL

Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 02/26/2016 - 17:46

Video by Stephanie Katelnikoff; article excerpt by Kyle Bakx - CBC News, February 26, 2016

Fourteen months after a CP Rail train derailed in Banff National Park, the conductor of that locomotive will return to work for the railway.

Stephanie Katelnikoff was dismissed after the incident, but she took her case to arbitration and won.

Arbitrator Maureen Flynn ruled this month that Katelnikoff should be reinstated and CP Rail should give her compensation for lost wages and benefits.

"There was some jumping and then some screaming and there might have been a little bit of happy crying," Katelnikoff said of her reaction. "I like the job itself and I really liked my coworkers."...

...The Banff derailment was her second trip as a conductor for CP Rail. She said her training didn't teach her how to react in the event of a derailment. She also alleged the derailment was the reason she was fired from the railway.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada ultimately ruled the derailment was caused by a fracture in the heel block assembly of the north switch-point rail... (read the full article here)

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If You Care About Railroad Safety You Must Defend Tom Harding

Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 02/26/2016 - 17:37

Editorial - Railroad Workers United, Highball, Winter 2016

Practically every North American railroader now knows about the tragic train wreck in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec in July, 2013. With its tremendous loss of life and destruction, the disaster made headlines around the world. In the aftermath of that accident, as we discussed it amongst ourselves, details became known. One of those details was that within days of the wreck the locomotive engineer of the runaway train, Tom Harding, was arrested and ultimately charged. He and his Dispatcher face the possibility of life in prison if found guilty as charged. No company official of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (MM&A) – the railroad upon which the wreck took place - nor the company itself have faced criminal charges.

To this day, there is confusion and disinformation circulated about that matter. For those of us in the fight for rail safety, it is imperative that we know the facts. This is key not just to prevent a grave injustice, but to prevent future repetitions of that incident and to stop the dangerous push by the rail carriers to deflect all liability for the consequences of their policy decisions and simply blame-the-worker every and any time there is an accident or injury, fatality or disaster.

Some railroaders – even a few known as safety conscious can get this issue wrong. Because conscientious trainmen and engineers take safety on the job so seriously, taking personal responsibility comes as second nature to us. No one wants to be seen as making excuses for a co-worker who doesn't take his/her job or their co-workers' safety seriously. As a result, some raise arguments that perhaps Tom Harding is guilty of something, that maybe he deserves to be charged. Therefore, it is crucial that we examine the facts.

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When Railroad Carriers Threaten to Strike, the State Cowers

Submitted by x344543 on Fri, 02/26/2016 - 17:26

Editorial - Railroad Workers United, Highball, Winter 2016

Back in the fall of 2008, in the face of yet another horrendous and preventable catastrophic train wreck, the US Congress passed the Railroad Safety Improvement Act (RSIA). Among its many provisions, it mandated that the railroad carriers implement Positive Train Control (PTC), a technology that ensures train separation and can enforce safety despite possible mistakes and/or oversights by the train’s operating crew. The deadline for its installation was set for December 31, 2015, allowing the carriers more than seven years within which to comply. With that deadline looming, and most carriers not even close to implementation, on October 27th, 2015, Congress passed legislation that allows the railroads another three years (and now it looks more like five) to meet the new deadline.

Whether this is the fault of the federal government, the railroad corporations, the FCC, or whoever, we will not argue the point here. What we do want to take issue with is this: Once the U.S. rail carriers claimed that they could not possibly meet the deadline, they basically stated their collective intentions to severely restrict the movement of both freight and passengers, in effect, holding the country hostage. Their actions – had they been effected on January 1st – certainly would have induced a major recession if not outright collapse of the U.S. economy, possibly leading to a worldwide depression. Without any debate whatsoever, the U.S. Congress swiftly moved into action. Without a whimper of dissent, they did their corporate masters’ bidding and granted the carte blanche PTC extension.

Just as Congress bailed out the big banks and major corporations back in 2008 who were “too big to fail”, they were quick to view the unfolding scenario as one that could be catastrophic to the economy and the American people. And they were right. Had the major rail carriers made good on their threat, and embargoed freight and passengers as promised (all in the name of safety, of course), the consequences for all of us would have been dire. But these two choices – extension and relief on one hand, or no extension and ensuing chaos on the other -- were not necessarily the only two options available.

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Organizing oil workers in a time of crisis

Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 18:24

By Chelsea Carrick - Socialist Worker, February 24, 2016

The transition from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources is discussed primarily through an environmental lens--and for good reason. With the rapid depletion of planetary resources and the growing frequency of extreme weather events, it has become increasingly clear that capitalist forms of fossil-fuel extraction will continue to ignore the world's natural limits--even to the point of obliterating the possibility of life on earth.

But in addition to drawing awareness to environmental devastation and organizing resistance to it, it's also critical to organize in defense of the interests of the people who actually work in the fossil-fuel industry. The recent and dramatic collapse in oil prices illustrates why this is essential.

In circumstances like now, workers are more likely to harbor grievances against their employers as it becomes apparent just how precarious their seemingly stable jobs actually are. In recent months, workers are being laid off every day, and those once able to rely on overtime pay are seeing their hours cut. In communities where fossil fuels are the primary engine of economic growth, the entire local economy slumps.

In these communities, layoffs and spending cuts at energy firms mean increasingly unsafe working conditions for the workers who remain. Entire communities are facing a painful and rapid transition from boomtowns into economic wastelands.

CASPER, WYOMING, is one of these places. Nicknamed "Oil City" because of its long history as an oil-producing town, the oil industry is touted as the ultimate job creator. But the problem is that the industry that created this community is the same industry that's destroying it. And workers are noticing.

Workers in oil extraction facilities are six times more likely to die on the job than the average worker. Major oil companies can avoid responsibility for on-the-job deaths because federal regulators do not have a systematic way to record deaths in this field, and certain fatalities do not need to be included in OSHA reports. Additionally, diseases with a long latency are rarely reported.

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Railroad Shop Workers Vote No on Merging Jobs

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/21/2016 - 10:06

By Jon Flanders - Labor Notes, February 18, 2016

Image, right: A boilermaker works on a locomotive plow, a part that often gets damaged in operation. Railroad workers recently voted down a concessionary deal that would have blended machinists' and pipefitters' jobs together. Photo by the author.

Union members have become used to a certain pattern: threats of plant closings and layoffs, followed by a vote to reopen the contract and make concessions to “save jobs.”

In the railroad shops of the CSX corporation, this pattern has been broken.

Last fall CSX made an offer to its machinists and pipefitters—backed by their unions, the Machinists (IAM) and SMART. The tentative agreement would merge the two crafts into a single job, “Master Mechanic.” For instance, the master mechanic would install both power assemblies (previously machinists’ work) and radiators (previously pipefitters’ work).

Management painted the concessionary deal in glowing terms. But in December, workers in both crafts bucked the threat and overwhelmingly voted no.

FIXING ENGINES

Nationally there are around 8,000 railroad machinists. They rebuild locomotives from the ground up and do preventative maintenance such as replacing power assemblies, turbos, traction motors, and other mechanical items.

Pipefitters work on the extensive pipe systems on locomotives: air, fuel, and oil.

Collectively, these railroad shop workers maintain the locomotive fleet for all the major railroads in the U.S.

The critical role they play got front-page attention after a defective locomotive led to a 2013 disaster in the town of Lac Mégantic, Quebec. A runaway train carrying crude oil exploded, killing 47 people.

MORE WORK, SAME PAY

CSX Chief Administrative Officer Lisa Mancini claimed in a September press release that the contract deal reflected the unions’ and company’s “collective commitment to finding innovative ways to support our employees while driving long-term efficiency.”

Needless to say, the affected workers saw things a little differently. It looked to them like more work for the same pay.

Machinists and pipefitters would have to learn each other’s jobs. Previously, if a job called for both piping and mechanical, the two crafts might have worked together on a team. Now the whole job might be done by whoever was at hand—leading to job losses all around.

CSX was promising to guarantee jobs for two years, but not many thought the guarantee would last much longer.

The agreement would have given up not only traditional job jurisdictions, but also seniority and employee-protection agreements, where laid-off machinists are paid a percentage of their wages for a period of time based on years of service.

Layoffs are a particular concern for these workers—who might otherwise be forced to move rather than spend time looking for another job near home.

RAUCOUS MEETINGS

The initial proposal met with resistance; meetings reportedly went very badly. Workers who’d always been quiet before were making ominous-sounding threats against union officers.

Next CSX closed the 100-year-old Corbin locomotive shop in Kentucky and the Erwin railyard in Tennessee, citing the decline in coal shipments.

Many machinists and pipefitters lost jobs in these shops. Layoffs of other crafts, such as the boilermakers, followed. Obviously management hoped this would bring pressure to bear.

In reality, despite the decline in coal shipments, CSX has yet to go in the red. Last summer, while it was negotiating the concessions, the company announced its profits had risen 4.5 percent in the second quarter and it had beaten its own expectations for earnings. In the full year 2015, the company made $3.6 billion in operating profit.

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EcoUnionist News #92

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/21/2016 - 09:55

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 22, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Just Transition:

Winter Newsletter - By Staff, Alliance for Appalachia, February 17, 2016
Why 2016 will be the best year yet for climate justice - By Kari Malkki, Reuters, February 15, 2016

Bread and Roses:

Climate Justice and Palestine: the New Intersectionality - By Alice Rothchild, CounterPunch, February 19, 2016
Land and Ocean Grabs Not the Solution to Climate Change - By Salena Tramel, The World Post, February 19, 2016
Monsant o's pride, Monsanto's fall: playing God with the Indian farmer - By Colin Todhunter, The Ecologist, February 19, 2016
Familias Unidas takes Boycott to Washington, DC - By admin, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 18, 2016
Familias Unidas Attends PCC Board of Trustees Meeting in Seattle - By admin, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 17, 2016
US Farmers Allege Deception by Agrochemical Giant: The Case Against Syngenta - By Clara Herzberg, Truthout, February 17, 2016
FAO should support seed selection by peasants and small scale farmers - By Guy Kastler, La Via Campesina, February 16, 2016
Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse - By Colin Todhunter, The Ecologist, February 15, 2016
Corporate vision of the future of food promoted at the UN - By Guy Kastler, et.al., La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
European dairy farmers facing an untenable situation since 2014 - By Jose–Miguel Pacheco and Genevieve Savigny, La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
FAO Symposium on Biotechnology: The biotechnology industry runs the show - By Various, La Via Campesina, February 15, 2016
Opinion: Women farmers in Europe - By Hanny van Geel, Agricultures, December 2015
Peasant women power in Mozambique - By Boaventura Monjane, Agricultures, December 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

Battle Lines Are Drawn as Congress Reforms the 40-Year-Old Toxic Substances Control Act - By Reynard Loki, Alternet, February 18, 2016
CP Rail acted in bad faith when firing this conductor after Banff derailment: arbitrator - By Reid Southwick, Calgary Herald, February 18, 2016
So, is Don Blankenship ‘hardly a criminal’? - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette, February 18, 2016
USW, Mexican Miners’ Union Accuse Asarco, Parent Firm of Rights Violations - By Ben Davis, United Steelworkers, February 18, 2016
Global Union Coalition Expresses Solidarity, Support for Local 235A - By Staff, United Steelworkers, February 17, 2016
Plant Shutdown Threatens Pennsylvania Town's Water Supply - By Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post, February 17, 2016
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Local 241, Executive Board Member and Union Steward Fired by CTA for Enforcing Union Contract - By ATU Local 241, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, February 16, 2016
NUMSA message on the Lily mine disaster - By Irvin Jim, NUMSA, February 16, 2016
Dozens of Australian building sites contaminated by illegal Chinese asbestos imports, authorities say - By Angelique Donnellan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, February 15, 2016

Greenwashers:

Groups Say Secretary Moniz Won't Protect Porter Ranch - By Dan Bacher, Daily Kos, February 17, 2016
Carbonballs: How Carbon Neutral Investments made Newcastle United “carbon positive” - By Chris Lang, REDD-Monitor, February 16, 2016

Whistleblowers:

New federal artificial turf study will lead to more questions - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, February 16, 2016

Disaster Capitalism:

"Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City": Complete Democracy Now! Special on Flint - By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, February 17, 2016; [related] As They Drank Contaminated Water, Flint Residents Were Charged The Highest Water Rates In The Country - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, February 17, 2016

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Protecting Baltimore from Oil Trains

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 11:40

By Jennifer Kunze - Clean Water Action, February 12, 2016

Oil production in North America has skyrocketed in the past five years, with industries using increasingly dangerous and desperate technologies to extract fossil fuels from the ground. Particularly in the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota, the cheapest way for companies to move oil to profitable markets is to load it onto trains and send it to the coast, where refineries and export terminals can transform it into fuel and transport it to wherever they can find the best price. With increasing oil production comes increasing oil train transport – and a mind-boggling increase in oil train accidents. When train cars carrying crude oil derail or hit something, they often puncture; when they do, a slight spark can set off a fiery explosion that turns the train car into a bomb.

Trains carrying volatile crude oil from North Dakota travel through Baltimore constantly – 100 million gallons traveled through the city last year. The trains enter the city in the Morrell Park neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore and pass near the stadiums, follow a tunnel underneath Howard Street, continue underground along 26^th Street through Remington and Charles Village (where a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks two years ago), through Clifton Park, and exit through East Baltimore on their way to Philadelphia. Other trains travel from Morrell Park to South Baltimore, where the oil is transferred to ships and sent on the Patapsco River and through the Chesapeake Bay. Every neighborhood and watershed the trains cross is in danger – if you live within a mile of the tracks, you could be impacted by an explosion.

I first learned about oil trains in July 2013, after the tragedy in the small town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec. In the middle of the night, a train carrying volatile crude oil from North Dakota rolled down the tracks alone, reached a speed of 60 miles per hour, derailed in the middle of downtown, and exploded. Forty-seven people were killed, half of downtown was destroyed, and the town is forever scarred by the oil contamination. Since this terrible accident, oil by rail transport has only increased – but communities are getting educated, getting organized, and fighting back.

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EcoUnionist News #91

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 11:32

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 15, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

What the media hides about China’s economic slowdown: Greed has corporate elites turning blind eye to nation’s environmental destruction - By Bob Hennelly, Salon, February 10, 2016
How Industry and Regulators Kept Public in the Dark After 2014 LNG Explosion in Washington - By Tarika Powell, Sightline Daily, February 8, 2016
Organic Agriculture, Capitalism and the Parallel World of the Pro-GMO Evangelist - By Colin Todhunter, CounterPunch, February 8, 2016
Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising - By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance, February 7, 2016
Why the oil industry could be a stain on economic recovery in US - By Jana Kasperkevic, The Guardian, February 7, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Appalachia Resist: Regional Action Camp for Social & Environmental Justice - March 18-21
Break Free 2016 - May 2016 |
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11 – 13, 2016
Cove Point Spring Break - March 6-14
Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
2016 Labor Notes Conference - April 1-4, 2016
Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15

The Thin Green Line:

Coal Money Divides Oakland's Churches - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, February 10, 2016
Hundreds urge Planning Commission to deny Phillips 66′s dangerous oil train proposal - By Elly Benson, Sierra Club Yodeler, February 8, 2016
Broad Coalition in San Luis Obispo Blasts Tar Sands Invasion - By Paul W. Rea, Sunflower Alliance, February 7, 2016
Here are all the Northwest cities, governments and organizations that oppose oil trains - By Nick Abraham, Oil Check, January 28, 2016

Just Transition:

Solar Net Metering Challenge In Maine - By Glenn Meyers, Clean Technica, February 12, 2016
Good Policy Gone Bad: How Nevada Killed Jobs And Clean Energy Competition - By Jim Marston, Environmental Defense Fund, February 11, 2016
75,000 Solar Jobs In California, Says New Report - By Jake Richardson, Clean Technica, February 11, 2016
California And Massachusetts Lead U.S. Solar Boom - By Alejandro Davila Fragoso, Think Progress, February 10, 2016
States See Robust Solar Job Growth, But Are Those Jobs Secure? - By Julia Pyper, Green Tech Media, February 10, 2016
Farmers, community and enviro groups rally at Vic Parliament: Call for gasfield ban & renewables ambition - By Leigh Ewbank, Yes2Renewables, February 9, 2016
Residents fight for economic and environmental justice in one Illinois town - By Raven Rakia, Grist, February 9, 2016
Social partners and the collaborative approach are key to the green transition of the Ruhr region - By Béla Galgóczi, European Trade Union Institute, February 9, 2016
Switching on to energy democracy - By Claire Fauset, New Internationalist, February 9, 2016
Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program - By Rebecca Nathanson, Yes! Magazine, February 5, 2016

Bread and Roses:

MST: We are entering a new period of class struggle - By MST National Coordination, La Via Campesina, February 12, 2016
California Farmers Irrigate Crops With Chevron’s Oil Wastewater in Drought-Stricken Central Valley - By Cole Mellino, EcoWatch, February 10, 2016
Jail term for villagers opposing Bolloré/Socfin’s palm oil plantations in Sierra Leone as trial of French journalists starts in Paris - By Joseph Rahall, et. al., World Rainforest Movement, February 10, 2016
Coffee Farmers Sue Monsanto for Hiding Cancer-Causing Impact of Glyphosate - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, February 9, 2016
A real system change has to come from below, says Paula Gioia, the European Youth ICC member of La Via Campesina - By Den Haag, La Via Campesina, February 9, 2016
Breaking the system designed to keep tea workers poor - By Sabita Banerji, New Internationalist, February 8, 2016
Farm defenders halt construction at the Gill Tract a second time - By Occupy the Farm, IndyBay, February 8, 2016
Hot off the press!… - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, February 8, 2016
Local Farmworkers Disrupt Costco Shareholders Meeting - By Káráni, Káráni, February 8, 2016
Weekend of Farmworker Solidarity in California and Washington - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, February 8, 2016
Environmental racism in the “leftmost city” - By esewra, Santa Cruz Ecological Justice, January 27, 2016

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EcoUnionist News #90

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 02/07/2016 - 15:04

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, February 9, 2016

The following news items feature issues, discussions, campaigns, or information potentially relevant to green unionists:

Lead Stories:

Naomi Klein: Climate Change "Not Just About Things Getting Hotter" - By Michael Winship, Truthout, February 4, 2016
Trying to exploit rural anger - Jessica Campbell interviewed by Wael Elasady, Socialist Worker, February 3, 2016
Five Stories To Watch in the Arch Coal Bankruptcy: Big executive bonuses; shafting workers and the environment; and more - By Clark Williams-Derry, Sightline Daily, February 2, 2016
300 Union Plumbers Spent The Weekend Installing Water Filters For Flint Residents For Free - By Judd Legum, Think Progress, February 1, 2016
GM, union workers take 56,700 water bottles to Flint - By Megan Little, WANE TV, January 29, 2016
To Charles Koch, Universities Are Propaganda Machines - By Connor Gibson, Huffington Post, January 27, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016 |
Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
Railcon15 - Next Conference TBA | #Railcon15

The Thin Green Line:

The struggle for responsible investment continues: UBC committee votes against divestment - By Jen Halsall, Rabble.Ca, February 4, 2016
Stand with the #Heathrow 13 - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 3, 2016
In Washington, the 'necessity defense' on trial alongside activists - By Cally Carswell, High Country News, February 2, 2016

Just Transition:

Democratic Energy and Climate Change - By Yavor Tarinski, Resilience, February 4, 2016
New Bill Would Clean Up Abandoned Coal Mines And Jump Start The Appalachian Economy - By Katie Valentine, Think Progress, February 4, 2016
Solar Decision Will Burn Low-Income Californians - By Tom Dalzell, Beyond Chron, February 4, 2016
Hal Rogers files bill to release $1 billion in AML funds for economic development in coal communities - By Ivy Brashear, Renew Appalachia, February 3, 2016
Unions Part of London Campaign to Bring ‘Energy for People, Not for Profit’ - By Archie Davies, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, February 3, 2016
UK Government Bails Out North Sea; Gives “Nothing to Solar” - By Andy Rowell, Oil Change International, February 1, 2016

Bread and Roses:

Bold Nebraska Delivers Petition Urging Legislature to Stand With Family Farmers, Vote NO on Corporate Pig Bill LB 176 - By Mark Hefflinger, Bold Nebraska, February 4, 2016
Dairy Crisis: Enough evaluations, it’s high time for the Commission to act - By Staff, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
La Via Campesina, Building an International Movement for Food and Seed Sovereignty - By Simone Adler, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
National Farmers Union to be part of climate change solutions in Manitoba - By Staff, La Via Campesina, February 2, 2016
Monsanto’s Roundup Kills and Damages More than Weeds - By Shepherd Bliss, CounterPunch, February 1, 2016
Worst Trade Union of the Year Award: a Small Farm Future Special - By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future, January 30, 2016

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

Canada must act now to save its steel-making industry - By Paul Weinberg, Rabble.Ca, February 5, 2016
How the Bundy Gang Won - By George Wuerthner, CounterPunch, February 5, 2016
Three missing after South African gold mine collapses, trapping 87 - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, February 5, 2016
CP Rail propane cars collide near Edmonton in 3rd 'remote control' accident - By Dave Seglins, CBC, February 4, 2016
Hazelwood owner charged over 45-day coal mine fire - By Sophie Vorrath, REnew Economy, February 4, 2016
Heather White and the Human Costs of Electronics - By Cecilia Jamasmie, CounterPunch, February 4, 2016
Glazer: Rework BART union contracts before $3 billion bond vote - By Sam Richards, Contra Costa Times, February 3, 2016
Saeed Baloch, Advocator for Fishermen’s Rights, Arrested in Pakistan - By Real World Radio, La Via Campesina, February 3, 2016
What’s Happened With The Oregon Occupation Since You Stopped Paying Attention - By Laurel Raymond, Think Progress, February 3, 2016
Report: Even After 2013 Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Hundreds of Communities Still at Risk - By Elizabeth Grossman, In These Times, February 2, 2016
Global Sweatshops, Solidarity and the Bangladesh Breakthrough - By Eric Dirnbach, Public Seminar, January 28, 2016
People Of Color & Poor More Likely To Live Near Chemical Hazard - By Amanda Starbuck, Center for Effective Government,
January 21, 2016

Greenwashers:

How safeguards fail poor farmers in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena REDD project in Madagascar - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, February 5, 2016
REDD is dead. What’s next? - By Chris Lang, REDD Monitor, February 4, 2016
Behind the fake ban, SNP is fracking bosses’ good friend - By Raymie Kiernan, Socialist Worker (UK), February 2, 2016
The Inside Story of How a University Professor Quietly Collaborated With Monsanto - By Carey Gillam, AlterNet, January 30, 2016

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