Eco Unionist News

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 3, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

Ten years ago, between August 23-31, Hurricane Katrina overran the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, destroying major portions of the city, killing at least 1245 people. The destruction and death disproportionately affected the poor, mostly nonwhite, working class people and neighborhoods of New Orleans, and the response by the capitalist class and every government from the local municipal authorities to the State of Louisiana to the United States, was to render aid to the mostly white employing class while letting the working class suffer. Law enforcement and the capitalist, in an orgy of racism and class bias, displayed blatant double standards, greatly exaggerating the actions of black survivors, labeling their actions as "violent", "looting", and "thuggish" while ignoring at least as serious actions by white survivors. Then, they used the disaster to bust unions, privatize public institutions (including the public school system), and shred environmental laws, so they could remake New Orleans into a hyper capitalist mecca. Ten years later, the devastation of Katrina is still wreaking havoc on the 99%, however, as a result, broad based, intersectional working class resistance has arisen among them and they are fighting back. A good portion of the resistance is working under the banner of #GulfSouthRising and Katrina Truth. Following are just some of their stories:

• Amid Katrina Commemoration Spectacle, a Southern Freedom Movement Takes Shape - By Anna Simonton, TruthOut, September 1, 2015
• Bush Administration Exemption Allowed Contractors To Steal Wages From Katrina Reconstruction Workers - By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress, August 31, 2015
• Dodging potholes in New Orleans: 10 years after Katrina - By Hannah Bonne, RoarMag, August 31, 2015
• Social Justice and Climate Justice Movements Merge in New Orleans 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina - By Julie Dermansky, DeSmog Blog, August 31, 2015
• Still left behind in the new New Orleans - Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky interviewed by Elizabeth Schulte, Socialist Worker, August 31, 2015
• Gulf South Rising Remembers Katrina, Builds Campaign - By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance, August 30, 2015
• How the Ruling Class Remade New Orleans - By Thomas Jessen Adams, Jacobin, August 29, 2015
• These New Orleans Residents Are Still Trying To Go Home - By Bryce Covert, Think Progress, August 29, 2015
• Change Everything or Face A Global Katrina - By Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything, August 28, 2015
• Katrina Plus Ten: Climate Justice in Action - By Scott Parkin, CounterPunch, August 28, 2015
• Shock Doctrine: A Look at the Mass Privatization of NOLA Schools in Storm’s Wake & Its Effects Today - Wendell Pierce and Gary Rivlin interviewed by Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, August 28, 2015
• Ten years on: Katrina, militarisation and climate change - By Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, Open Democracy, August 28, 2015
• Was the Katrina Oil Spill Disaster a Harbinger for the Atlantic Coast? - By Sue Sturgis, Facing South, August 28, 2015
• Still Waiting for Help: Lessons of Hurricane Katrina on Poverty - By Laura Lein, The Conversation, August 27, 2015
• A Decade After Katrina, RNs Reflect on What We’ve Learned and Refuse to Learn - By Staff, National Nurses United, August 26, 2015

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Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, September 1, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• The Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks - By Stephen Corry, Truthout, August 25, 2015; [related] The Forgotten History Of 'Violent Displacement' That Helped Create The National Parks - By Julian Brave NoiseCat, Huffington Post, August 26, 2015
• The King is Dead!: In Appalachia, the Coal Industry Is in Collapse, but the Mountains Aren't Coming Back - By Laura Gottesdiener, Tom Dispatch, August 24, 2015
• Tianjin Explosion Highlights Profits Over People - By Preeti Kaur, Telesur, August 23, 2015
• Washington first state to price carbon by popular vote? The obstacle course - By Patrick Mazza, Cascadia Planet, August 23, 2015
• The Secret History of Jaywalking: The Disturbing Reason It Was Outlawed; And Why We Should Lift the Ban - By Ravi Mangla, Salon, August 22, 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• Northern California Climate Mobilization - November 21, 2015
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
• Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate

Bread and Roses:

• The Pacific Coast Farmworker Rebellion - By David Bacon, The Reality Check, August 28, 2015
• How Lebanon's rubbish spurred a budding revolution - By Nour Samaha, Al Jazeera, August 26, 2015
• Trash or Treasure? How to Repurpose Would-Be Wasted Food to Feed the Hungry and Create Jobs - By Alex McKechnie, Drexel Now, August 26, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Another Powerful Explosion at Chemical Factory in China - By Jennifer Baker, Revolution News, August 31, 2015
• Fracking-induced earthquakes could leave workers vulnerable, says geophysicist - By Betsy Trumpener, CBC News, August 27, 2015
• 2 crew members injured after pipeline ruptures in Gulf - Associated Press wire, FuelFix, August 27, 2015
• Union can hand out leaflets critical of bus system leaders, judge says - By John Agar, Michigan Live, August 27, 2015
• United Front welcomes conviction of the police who murdered Mido Macia - By John Appollis, Dinga Sikwebu, and Mazibuko Jara, NUMSA, August 26, 2015
• Railroads balk at making oil disaster plans public - By Tim Pugmire, MPR News, August 25, 2015
• Skepticism arrives with caulk removal at Malibu schools - By Chris Bashaw, Malibu Surfside News, August 25, 2015
• Local 6787 steelworker dies in fall at BH mill - By Staff, Chesterton Tribune, August 24, 2015
• When firefighters speak out on climate change, we ought to listen up - By Char Miller, The Guardian, August 24, 2015
• No Nooses in the Workplace! Daryle Washington IBT 350 Recology Worker Targeted For Exposing Hanging Noose Racist Incident - By Steve Zeltser, Transportworkers.Org, August 23, 2015
• Coroner identifies worker who died after accident at Beech Grove Amtrak facility - Staff Report, 13 WTHR, August 22, 2015
• Fracking Companies Put First Responder Lives at Risk by Refusing to Disclose Chemicals - Appeal, Dear President Obama, August 20, 2015
• 4,000 Prison Inmates Fighting California Wildfires For $2 Per Day - By Kit O'Connell, Mint News, August 18, 2015
• Skepticism arrives with caulk removal at Malibu schools - By Charles D. Ellison, The Root, August 17, 2015
• Spate of oil field deaths prompts new study of workplace hazards - By Jennifer Gollan, Reveal, August 14, 2015
• Interview with a Miner - By Rachael Charbonneau and John Newlands, Workers Struggle-Sudbury, August 2015

Just Transition:

• Canadian doctors divest from fossil fuels - By Jesse McLaren, Rabble.Ca, August 26, 2015
• Financial gatekeepers are blocking green investment - By Megan Darby, Responding to Climate Change, August 25, 2015
• No Gold, No Masters - Press Release, Beyond Europe, August 24, 2015
• Drawing a line in the sand: The movement victory at Ende Gelände opens up the road of disobedience for Paris - By laronceblog, The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, August 23, 2015
• Review: Alternatives to Capitalism - By Heather Blakey, Red Pepper, August 2015
• Review: The Collapse of Western Civilization - By Jonathan Cohn, Great Transition Initiative, August 2015
• Origins and delusions of green growth - By Gareth Dale, International Socialist Review, Summer 2015

Other News:

• NUMSA to also go for Prasa - By Andrew Chirwa, NUMSA, August 25, 2015
• Striking Chilean miners blockade themselves underground - By Staff, Khabar.Eu, August 25, 2015
• The 350.org and Hollaback! approach to distributed campaigning - By Tom Liacas, Mob Lab, August 4, 2015
• America’s First Red Scare: For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes - By Andre Fleche, Jacobin, August 2015

For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 25, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• Spending time in a controversial camp that’s blocking tar-sands pipelines - By Sam Bliss, Grist, August 21, 2015
• Why Public Transportation Is So Limited in the United States - By Daniel Faris, Truthout, August 17, 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• Northern California Convergence - November 21, 2015
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
• Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate

Bread and Roses:

• United Front salutes "Abahlali Basemijondolo (AbM)" for its court Victory - By Kwezilomso Mbandazayo, et. al., NUMSA, August 21, 2015
• Day Two of Work Stoppage at Sakuma Farms in Skagit - By moderator, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 18, 2015; [related] FUJ Won 2 Victories Today - By moderator, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 20, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Rail safety bill sent to Governor - Staff Report, Vallejo Times Herald, August 22, 2015
• In Victory for Corporations, Court Rejects Rule on Labeling Goods Containing "Conflict Minerals" - Zorka Milin interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now, August 21, 2015
• As oil train burned, firefighters waited 2 hours for critical details - Curtis Tate, McClatchy DC, August 21, 2015; [related] Fire Chief Criticizes CSX Over 2014 Virginia Derailment - By John Raby, Associated Press, August 21, 2015
• Fires That Killed 3 Firefighters Explode In Size - Staff Report, OPB TV, August 21, 2015
• JR East begins decontaminating tracks in areas affected by nuclear crisis - Staff Report, Mainichi, August 21, 2015
• $18 million lawsuit filed over coal-ash worker's death - By Bob Fowler, Knoxville News Sentinel, August 20, 2015; [related] The Truth About Coal - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, August 21, 2015
• EPA Stealth Rollback of School PCB Safeguards: Material and Exposure Testing Discouraged; Child Exposure Levels Loosened - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, August 20, 2015
• OSHA proposes cutting worker exposure to beryllium by 90 percent - By Mark Gruenberg, People's World, August 19, 2015
• Death on the Job: Putting Names and Faces on Fatality Statistics - By Sandy Smith, EHS Today, August 18, 2015
• Here’s why I won’t be buying anything from Amazon again - By Katie Herzog, Grist, August 17, 2015
• Workers protest against ‘return to apartheid’ at Rio Tinto in Namibia - Press Release, IndustriALL, August 17, 2015
• 70 Chilean Miners Block Themselves in Mine to Protest Wages - Staff Report, Telesur, August 14, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Oil settles below $40 per barrel amid wider rout - By Robert Grattan, FuelFix, August 24, 2015
• Stock Selloff: Panic Time or a Blip on the Radar? - By Mike Whitney, CounterPunch, August 24, 2015
• Texas adds 35,800 jobs in July, but oil and gas employment still muddled in crude crash - By Joshua Cain, FuelFix, August 24, 2015
• As oil industry reels from plummeting prices, layoffs stun, worry workers - By Rhiannon Meyers, Houston Chronicle, August 22, 2015
• Oil and gas listings on job websites fell by half after industry cutbacks - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, August 20, 2015
• Chevron gives notice to workers as it prepares to cut 950 jobs - By Rhiannon Meyers, FuelFix, August 17, 2015; [related] Chevron starts layoffs at Louisiana office - AP Wire, FuelFix, August 21, 2015

Just Transition:

• Greek protesters arrested in clash over Eldorado suspension of 2,000 workers - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, August 24, 2015
• New paper shows that renewables can supply 100% of all energy (not just electricity) - By Michael Sweet, Skeptical Science, August 20, 2015
• California lawmakers seek greater oversight of 'green jobs' spending - By Randy Lilleston, Utility Dive, August 18, 2015
• Can California turn the West green? - By Dan Morain, Sacramento Bee, August 12, 2015

Other News:

• Rio’s Olympic preparations under the spotlight - By Adam Talbot, RoarMag.Com, August 21, 2015
• How developing countries are paying a high price for the global mineral boom - By John Vidal, The Guardian, August 20, 2015
• Canadian miner profit hit by Codelco’s striking contractors, snow storm - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, August 19, 2015
• A hero of the Western Wobblies - By Avery Wear, Socialist Worker, August 19, 2015
• How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Keeps Working People Poor and Destroys the Environment - By Simon Swartzman, In These Times, August 19, 2015
• UD expert calls on oil train operators to step up safety measures - By Jon Hurdle, Delaware Public Media, August 18, 2015
• Oil exports would harm U.S. energy independence - By Leo W. Gerard, Philly.Com, August 17, 2015

For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 18, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• The Thin Green Line Is Stopping Coal and Oil in Their Tracks - By Eric de Place, Sightline Daily, August 13, 2015
• The Paris Mirage: Reducing emissions while increasing them - Press Release, Leave it in the Ground Initiative, August 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
• Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate

Bread and Roses:

• Government and NFU betray Britain's dairy farmers - By Simon Fairlie, The Ecologist, August 15, 2015; [related] Milk Crisis: Small scale farmers' opinions - By Simon Fairlie, La Via Campesina, August 13, 2015
• Anti-farmer policies of NDA Government force Farmers to plan a Blockade of Delhi in September 2015: BKU - By Ch. Rakesh Tikait, et. al., La Via Campesina, August 11, 2015
• Valley Pride Farmworkers Join Independent Union Fear Company Retaliation - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 11, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Deadly Massive Chemical Explosion Raises Concerns of Toxic Brew Released Into the Environment - By Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch, August 17, 2015
• Houston’s Black Elk Energy facing criminal charges for fatal Gulf explosion -  By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, FuelFix, August 17, 2015
• NUMSA statement on third anniversary of Marikana massacre - By Castro Ngobese, NUMSA, August 17, 2015
• USW: Striking for safe working conditions in 2015 - By Ed Schultz and Leo Gerard, Global Climate Convergence, August 15, 2015
• Thousands Of Firefighters In California Are Inmates, Being Paid $1 An Hour On The Line - By Natasha Geiling, Think Progress, August 13, 2015
• WestConnex Removes Asbestos From Site Without Clean Up Approval - By Wendy Bacon, New Matilda, August 13, 2015
• Helicopter flying from oil rig crashes in Nigeria, killing 4 - Associated Press, FuelFix, August 12, 2015; [related] Oklahoma man killed in helicopter crash in Nigeria - Associated Press, FuelFix, August 13, 2015
• EPA Scientific Integrity Policy Stuck in Utero - By Kirsten Stade, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, August 12, 2015
• Illinois company exposed Mexican workers to asbestos - By Staff, Breeze Courier, August 11, 2015
• Linc Energy: Secret report reveals toxic legacy of coal gasification trials near SE Queensland town of Chinchilla - By Mark Solomons and Mark Willacy, Australian Broadcasting Company, August 10, 2015
• Ryan Edwards dies in CN switching accident - Press Release, Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation (SMART), August 5, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• California pension funds lose $5 billion on fossil fuels - By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, August 13, 2015; [report] California Pension Funds Lost More Than $5 Billion From Fossil Fuel Holdings - By 350.org, EcoWatch, August 14, 2015
• Double-Dip Oil Rout: Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy - By Michael Klare, Tom Dispatch, August 13, 2015
• Statement on the Outcomes of a Meeting Between Labour and Steel Industry CEOs on the Looming Jobs Bloodbath in the Sector - By Castro Ngobese, et.al., NUMSA, August 12, 2015
• Centennial warns of Springvale job cuts - By Esmarie Swanepoel, Mining Weekly, August 11, 2015
• Mass layoffs worldwide as corporate mergers near new record - By Andre Damon, World Socialist Web Site, August 15, 2015

Just Transition:

• Earthworker Co-op secures solar hot-water manufacturer, delivers a win for local workers - By Earthworker, Yes to Renewables, August 13, 2015
• State Blueprints are Vital to Clean Power Plan's Success - By Kim Glas, Blue Green Alliance, August 13, 2015
• Green jobs: the potential is there, but where's the political will? - By Jean Lambert, The Ecologist, August 11, 2015
• Sandy Post: Erasing Any Trace - By Stephanie Rearick, Bark!, August 10, 2015
• Mutual Aid Network: The New Cooperative Model on the Block - By Stephanie Rearick, Shareable, August 7, 2015
• Exposing the false prophets of social transformation - By Nicole Aschoff, Open Democracy, August 3, 2015

Other News:

• 3-BP's main crude unit at Whiting shut for at least a month - By Erwin Seba, Reuters, August 11, 2015
• Four Ways Mexico's Indigenous Farmers Are Practicing the Agriculture of the Future - By Leah Penniman, Yes, August 10, 2015
• N.D. hires BNSF manager as inspector for state rail safety program - By Mike Nowatzki, Grand Forks Herald, August 10, 2015
• FUP prepares September strike in defence of Petrobras - By Fernando Lopes, IndustriALL Global Union, July 29, 2015

For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 11, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• Re-Imagining Climate Justice at the COP: Finding Our Frontlines at a Gathering in Bellagio, Italy - By John Foran, Resilience.Org, August 4, 2015
• China after the boom - By Tom Bramble, Red Flag, July 29, 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
• Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate

Bread and Roses:

• Valley Pride Workers Walk Out Demanding Better Wages and Decent Living & Working Conditions - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 8, 2015; [related] Day 2 of Workers Strike at Valley Pride Farms - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, August 9, 2015
• Foodies and farmworkers: Allies or enemies? - Reviewed by Fred Magdoff, Climate and Capitalism, August 4, 2015
• Idaho #AgGag Law Struck Down as Unconstitutional - By Will Potter, Green is the New Red, August 3, 2015
• Water Reclamation from Mayor Duggan’s mansion! - Press Release, MICATS, August 3, 2015
• Climate Justice Alliance/Our Power Campaign Solidarity Statement with Community to Community Development and Familias Unidas por la Justicia at the Launch of the Summer of Our Power Relay - Press Release, Our Power Campaign, August 1, 2015
• Japan’s ‘sacred’ rice farmers brace for Pacific trade deal’s death sentence - By Nicole L Freiner, The Conversation, July 29, 2015

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, August 4, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• Beyond Extinction: Transition to post-capitalism is inevitable (A response to Margaret Atwood's, It’s Not Climate Change It’s Everything Change) - By Nafeez Ahmed, Medium.Com, July 28, 2015
• The Hurricane Katrina Pain Index: 10 Years Later - By Bill Quigley, Portside, July 20, 2015

Ongoing Mobilizations:

• Flood the System - Fall 2015: Flood, blockade, occupy and shut down the systems that jeopardize our future! | #FloodTheSystem
• People’s Climate Strike - November 26 - December 12, 2015
• Railcon15 - Chicago, Illinois Saturday, September 19, 2015 | #Railcon15
• Trade Union Climate Summit - September 14 & 15, 2015 Paris | #unions4climate

Bread and Roses:

• Strike Suspended in Potosi, Bolivian VP Declared "Persona non Grata" - By EFE, Earth First! Journal, August 3, 2015
• Farmworkers score big in new tomato deal - By Eve Andrews, Grist, July 29, 2015
• Farmworkers Walk Out Again in Organic Blueberry Fields Over Continuing Unattainable Production Standards Under Sakuma’s New Pay Scale - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 24, 2015

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 27, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• Reports of capitalism’s death have been greatly exaggerated - By Kate Aronoff, Waging NonViolence, July 22, 2015
• Capitalism, Green or Otherwise, Is "Ecological Suicide" - By David Klein, TruthOut, July 21, 2015
• Ecological Crisis and the Tragedy of the Commodity - By Stefano B. Longo and Brett Clark, CounterPunch, July 21, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• Slave in the Fields: A Reporter Goes Undercover in the San Quintin Valley - By Kau Sirenio Pioquinto, Truthout, July 25, 2015
• For Illinois Farmers, Damage From Coal Mines Can Span Decades - By Lizz Giordano, TruthOut, July 22, 2015
• New report reveals retiring toxic farmland would save water, money - By Dan Bacher, IndyBay, July 20, 2015
• Imagine farming that actually heals the earth - By Sami Grover, Tree Hugger, July 21, 2015; and Could better soil management reverse global warming? - By Sami Grover, Tree Hugger, February 12, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Mining, militarization and criminalization of social protests in Latin America - By Cesar Padilla, Papua New Guinea Mine Watch, July 23, 2015
• Talvivaara Mine Environmental Disaster - By Mike O'Brien, Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities, and Trade, July 23, 2015
• An Open Letter to Warren Buffett: Put Public Safety Before Profit and Prioritize Oil Train Regulation - By Mike O'Brien, Huffington Post, July 22, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Anglo American to axe 53,000 jobs, put 15 assets up for sale - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, July 24, 2015
• Weatherford takes “brutally realistic” approach to U.S. job cuts - By Jordan Blum, FuelFix, July 23, 2015
• Weatherford to boost job cuts to 11,000 - By Collin Eaton, FuelFix, July 22, 2015

Just Transition:

• Don’t leave clean energy tax credits blowing in the wind - By Staff, BlueGreen Alliance, July 24, 2015
• The EPA’s Clean Power Plan, Jobs, and Labor - Labor Network for Sustainability, July 24, 2015
• Yancoal job cuts follow expansion approval: systemic adjustment needed - By Georgina Woods, Lock the Gate Alliance, July 24, 2015
• What Happens After the Coal Plant Closes? - By Christopher Flavelle, Bloomberg View, July 22, 2015
• The Problem With the Fight for 15 - By Boots Riley, Creative Time Reports, July 20, 2015
• Cooperative/Solidarity Economics and Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops - By Michael Johnson, Grassroots Economic Organizing, July 2015

Other News:

• Inspectors find dozens of rail bridges need repair - By Dan Gunderson, MPR News, July 23, 2015
• Kropotkin on the Hudson - By Polly Howells, In These Times, July 22, 2015
• We may have already committed ourselves to 6-meter sea-level rise - By Systemic Disorder, Systemic Disorder, July 22, 2015

For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 23, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• The end of capitalism has begun - By Paul Mason, The Guardian, July 17, 2015
• Inequality isn’t just bad for the economy; it’s toxic for the environment - By Susan Holmberg, Grist, July 5, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• N.M. Field and Dairy Laborers Win Right To Workers’ Comp—Court Calls Exemption ‘Absurd’ - By Joseph Sorrentino, In These Times, July 20, 2015
• DARKer Act Blocks State and Local GMO Safety Rules - By Mary Ellen Kustin, Environmental Working Group, July 16, 2015
• Special Report: Retiring Toxic Farmland in San Joaquin Valley - By Jennifer Patterson, Restore the Delta, July 14, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Pan Am medals win gold in unethical sourcing, say advocates - By Kirsten Stade, rabble.ca, July 21, 2015
• Thousands of Garment Factory Workers Across Cambodia Are Fainting on the Job - By Michael Arria, In These Times, July 21, 2015
• Newcrest Papua New Guinea gold mine remains suspended after worker’s death - By James Regan, Reuters, July 20, 2015
• Work kills 150 people a day in the United States - By Cécile Fandos, Equal Times, July 20, 2015
• Koch Brothers Exposed for Campaign Contributions to 19 Members of Congress Who Voted to Deny Fair Compensation to Asbestos Victims - By Environmental Working Group, EcoWatch, July 16, 2015; [related] Asbestos a threat to the whole community: alert issued by EU institutions - By Staff, European Trade Union Institute, July 15, 2015
• Bolivia: Potosi General Strike Paralyzes Mining Town - By Erin Gallagher, Revolution News, July 16, 2015
• ETUI cooperates with Brazilian trade unions in reflecting upon occupational health - By Staff, European Trade Union Institute, July 15, 2015
• BNSF must own up to risks of oil, coal trains - By Ron Young, The Daily Herald, July 19, 2015
• Heated Rhetoric on Nevada Monument Invites Confrontation; Federal Employees in the West Put in Crosshairs by Superheated Political Rhetoric - By Megan Devlin, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, July 13, 2015
• London trains shut down in rail worker strike - By Staff, World Socialist Web Site, July 10, 2015
• Rally at Emterra for striking workers - Staff, CFJC TV, July 7, 2015
• USW, Global Allies Pressure Sherwin Owner; Workers Aim to Pressure Swiss Officials on Lockout - Press Release, United Steelworkers Union, July 6, 2015

Carbon Bubble:

• Glencore to slash 380 coal jobs in South Africa - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, July 22, 2015
• More Job Losses Coming To U.S. Shale - By Gaurav Agnihotri, OilPrice.Com, July 16, 2015
• Oil rig repairer files bankruptcy, aims to end worker suits - Associated Press, July 13, 2015

Just Transition:

• Time Is Political - By Stephanie Luce, Jacobin, July 20, 2015
• Alpha Natural Resources: Running Right….off of a cliff - By Nick Mullins, The Thoughtful Coal Miner, July 17, 2015
• German Co-operative Overcomes Takeover Plans by Large Utility, Rescues Defunct Wind Developer - By Wind-Works, The Community Power Report, July 14, 2015
• Experts Confirm Coal Industry’s “Global Poverty” Campaign Is Bogus - By Mike Gaworecki, DeSmog Blog, July 13, 2015

Other News:

• Senate Working to Strip Braking Safety Requirements From Oil Train Regulations - By Justin Mikulka, DeSmog Blog, July 22, 2015
• Celebrating wins that give a fair shake to recycling workers and multi-unit residents - By A. R. Boone, Sierra Club Yodeler, July 15, 2015
• Indigenous Communities Slam Mining Injustice in Honduras - By Staff, teleSUR, July 10, 2015

For more green news, please visit our news feeds section on ecology.iww.org; Twitter #IWWEUC; Hashtags: #greenunionism #greensyndicalism #IWW

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 14, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Stories:

• Fire at Chevron refinery in California led to infighting at U.S. Chemical Safety Board - By Jaxson Van Derbeken, San Francisco Chronicle, July 8, 2015
• Consumer advocates: Oil refiners manipulate California gas prices - By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2015
• The campaign to weaken worker protections; Who's to blame for thousands of work-related deaths and illnesses each year? Business, Congress, the White House and federal agencies - By Jamie Smith Hopkins, Center for Public Integrity, June 29, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• African governments sell out their farmers in secret seeds protection deal - By the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, The Ecologist, July 10, 2015
• International and National Delegations Coming to Sakuma fields in Support of Familias Unidas por la Justicia - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 10, 2015
• Farmworker Union Leads Unfair Labor Practice Work Stoppages at Sakuma Farms over Inhumane Production Standards; Demands Recognition and Negotiations of Union Contract - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 8, 2015
• Farmworkers at Sakuma Berry Farms Demand Negotiations with Management - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 6, 2015
• How Migrant Farmworkers Are Cross-Pollinating Strategies and Winning - By Sonia Singh, Labor Notes, July 6, 2015
• Steve Elmendorf: Monsanto's New Man on the Hill - By Gail Sullivan, Huffington Post, July 6, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Review: A Practical Guide to Tackling Factory Hazards - By Kim Scipes, Labor Notes, July 9, 2015
• Still No Safety Rules Two Years After Executive Order - By Taylor Smith-Hams, Greenpeace Blogs, July 8, 2015
• S. Africa campaigners jump all over Marikana killings report - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, July 8, 2015
• Lawsuit seeks $55 million for coal ash cleanup workers - Associated Press, WRCB NBC, July 7, 2015
• Workers allege negligence by coal ash cleanup overseer - By Staff, WBIR NBC, July 7, 2015
• BP 'Got Off Cheaply' With $18.7 Billion Settlement; BP had already estimated economic damages resulting from the Deepwater Horizon disaster at some $43 billion - By Antonia Juhasz, RollingStone, July 3, 2015

Just Transition:

• July 4th– Why the people of Canada are greater than the tar sands - By Atiya Jaffar, 350, July 9, 2015
• Watch: Anastasia Harripaul at the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate - By Rebel Sage, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015; [related]: Watch: Fred Hahn at the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate - By Rebel Sage, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015
• You didn't read about it in The Globe and Mail - By Judy Rebick, Rabble.Ca, July 9, 2015
• What Canada's Climate coalition looks like; For a movement long accused of being mostly male-led and white, Sunday's Jobs, Justice And Climate march represented a massive shift - By Adria Vasil, Now, July 8, 2015
• We > Tar Sands: Media round-up of July 4 - By Aurore Fauret, 350.Org, July 7, 2015

Other News:

• Protesters March Against Oil Trains: Richmond Calls for an end to Fossil Fuels and Demand Clean Energy Now! - By Megan Zapanta, Jasmin Vargas, and Eddie Scher, The Ecologist, July 11, 2015
• Construction worker files harassment suit over noose in East Bay - By Kale Williams, San Francisco Chronicle, July 10, 2015
• It’s unanimous: 100 percent of BLET members vote to strike at NJ Transit - Press Release, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, July 8, 2015

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Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, July 7, 2015

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW (or even the IWW’s EUC) and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author’s.

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

Lead Story:

• The impenetrable world of Mark Flores: Yvette Flores unknowingly worked around lead and other harmful substances while she was pregnant; a severely disabled son was the result - By Jim Morris, Center for Public Integrity, July 1, 2015

Bread and Roses:

• Farmworkers at Sakuma Berry Farms Demand Negotiations with Management - Press Release, Boycott Sakuma Berries, July 6, 2015
• ‘Anarchism could help to save the world’ - By David Priestland, The Guardian, July 3, 2015
• The Drought's Scapegoat - By Alastair Bland, East Bay Express, July 1, 2015
• Sakuma Bros. farmworkers walk off the job - By Shelby Rowe, Skagit Valley Herald, July 1, 2015
• Coca-Cola: Damaging the World - Press Release, KillerCoke.Org, June 30, 2015
• Costco Members, Fishermen, Environmental and Labor Groups Demand Costco Say No to GMO Salmon - Press Release, Park Forest ENews, June 26, 2015

An Injury to One is an Injury to All:

• Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion Leaves 4 Hurt in Texas Town  - By "Admin", Natural Gas Watch, July 3, 2015
• Systems Change, Rainforests, and Racism - By Brad Schenck, Rainforest Action Network, July 3, 2015
• A robot killed a factory worker in Germany; So who should go on trial? - By Rick Noack, The Washington Post, July 2, 2015
• Thousands Of Children Risked Their Lives In Tanzania’s Gold Mines For $2 A Day - By Beenish Ahmed, Think Progress, July 2, 2015
• Derailed train near Knoxville burning; 5,000 evacuated in area - By News Sentinel staff, The Commercial Appeal, July 2, 2015
• Bureaucracy Threatens More Than Just Your Sanity - By Taylor Smith-Hams, Greenpeace Blogs, June 30, 2015
• Rail yard pollution in Kansas City, Kansas, requires a closer look by the EPA and BNSF - Editorial, Kansas City Star, June 30, 2015
• Recology noose update: Daryle Washington rejects settlement without policy change - By Al Osorio, San Francisco Bay View, June 27, 2015; [related] The Hanging Noose And Fighting Racist Terrorism On The Job At SF Recology - By Steve Zeltser, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee, July 2, 2015
• Unions protest in Darwin against closure of Aboriginal communities - By Nadia Daly, A(ustralian)BC News, June 26, 2015

Just Transition:

• Labour speaks out about jobs, justice and the climate - By Ella Bedard, Rabble.Ca, July 6, 2015; [related]: Calgary wants jobs, justice, and climate action now - By Aiyana Lauridsen, Rabble.Ca, July 6, 2015
• Canada Mobilizes Coast to Coast for Jobs, Justice, and Climate - By Staff, teleSUR, July 4, 2015
• Greece’s anti-solar, coal-based energy policies underlie its economic collapse - By Takis Grigoriou, The Ecologist, July 3, 2015
• March for jobs, justice and the climate--as part of the Pan Am Games - By Krystalline Kraus, Rabble.Ca, June 30, 2015

Other News:

• South Africa’s main union rejects gold firms wage offer - By Cecilia Jamasmie, Mining.Com, July 6, 2015
• Transit Strikers Defend Full-Time Jobs and Bathroom Breaks - By Samantha Winslow, Labor Notes, July 2, 2015; [related]
• Milwaukee transit workers shut down bus lines, demanding a fair contract - By Tracey Pollock, Fight Back News, July 1, 2015
• Railroad whistle-blower awarded $1.25M - By Mike Carter, Seattle Times, July 1, 2015
• My friend Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak 188 engineer - By Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, June 20, 2015

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