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EcoUnionist News #103

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 05/08/2016 - 17:15

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

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

Lead Stories:

Major oil sands producers scale back output, shut down as wildfire rages - By Jeff Lewis and Shawn McCarthy, Toronto Globe and Mail, May 4, 2016; [related] Mass Evacuation as 'Apocalyptic' Inferno Engulfs Canadian Tar Sands City - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 4, 2016
Break Free: Largest Civil Disobedience In Environmental Movement History - By Break Free Coalition, Popular Resistance, May 3, 2016
'Today Marks the End of TTIP': Greenpeace Leak Exposes Corporate Takeover - By Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams, May 2, 2016
How to Create an "Ecology of Change" by Combining Movement Uprisings With Long-Term Organizing - By Mark Karlin, Truthout, May 1, 2016
The welfare of workers should be our primary concern… - By Gary Herman, Union Solidarity International, April 27, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

Legalizing Direct Action in Pennsylvania [video] - By Richard Mellor, Facts For Working People, May 7, 2016
A Growing and WINNING Climate Movement - By Lena Moffitt, Sierra Club, May 2, 2016
NUHW joins the No Coal In Oakland movement - By Staff, National Union of Healthcare Workers, April 18, 2016

Just Transition:

AGL: Energy transition can happen “almost overnight” - By Giles Parkinson, REnew Economy, May 5, 2016
David Suzuki: Divest from Damage and Invest in a Healthier Future - By David Suzuki, DeSmog Blog, May 4, 2016
Coalfield political theater masks path to progress - By Ken Ward Jr, Charleston Gazette-Mail, May 3, 2016
May Day in Oslo - By Jonathan Neale, Global Climate Jobs, May 2, 2016
Taking a bigger Leap when it comes to building green - By Matthew Adams and Melinda Zytaruk, Rabble.Ca, May 2, 2016
Waste Done Right - By Ruth Tyson, Energy Justice Network, May 1, 2016
We Are Mother Earth’s Red Line: Frontline Communities Lead The Climate Justice Fight Beyond The Paris Agreement - By It Takes Roots To Weather The Storm, The Leap, April 29, 2016
World Tree to Reverse Climate Change through Earth-Repair - By Jordan Fink and Daniel Lerch, KBOO, March 23, 2016

Bread and Roses:

Boycott Supporters Speak Out for Food & Farmworkers Justice this May Day - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, May 6, 2016
Wendy’s Boycott actions heat up as Month of Outrage winds down! - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, May 6, 2016
Environmental Disaster in Chile: Chiloe En Crisis - By Erin Gallagher, Revolution News, May 5, 2016; [relateed] Chile: Fisherman Barricade Chiloe Island; Protest Government Response to Red Tide Crisis - By Erin Gallagher, Revolution News, May 4, 2016
Familias Unidas at May Day Events Throughout the State of Washington - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, May 5, 2016
Intervention by La Via Campesina at the ‘30th FAO Regional Conference for Europe and Central Asia’, in Turkey - By Adnan Çobanoğlu, La Via Campesina, May 5, 2016
Interview with Wendy Cruz on the challenges for the advance of Agrarian Reform - By Wendy Cruz, La Via Campesina, May 4, 2016
160+ Farm and Food Groups Ask Congress to Reject TPP, Stand Up for Independent Farmers and Ranchers - By staff, Global Justice Ecology Project, May 2, 2016
The Little-Known Farmworkers Who Sparked the Biggest Labor Movement In U.S. History - By Alexa Strabuk, Yes!, May 1, 2016
Trabajadores agrícolas en Bellingham (WA) llaman a boicotear Driscoll’s - By Por Niñx Salvaje, SubVersiones, April 29, 2016
What’s a Carbon Farmer? How California Ranchers Use Dirt to Tackle Climate Change - By Sally Neas, Yes!, April 29, 2016
Familias Unidas and Allies Keep Up the Pressure for Contract Negotiation with Sakuma Brothers Farms, Washington State - By Debi Covert-Bowlds, Farm Worker Ministry-Northwest, April 27, 2016
Farm Workers Are Taking On Poor Pay And Conditions — And Winning - By Joseph Erbentraut, Huffington Post, April 27, 2016

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Can the Climate Movement Break Free From the 'Jobs vs. Environment' Debate?

Submitted by x344543 on Wed, 05/04/2016 - 18:36

By Kate Aronoff - Common Dreams, April 30, 2016

For two weeks this May, organizers across 12 countries will participate in Break Free 2016, an open-source invitation to encourage “more action to keep fossil fuels in the ground and an acceleration in the just transition to 100 percent renewable energy.” Many of the month’s events — pulled together by 350.org and a slew of groups around the world — are set to take place within ongoing campaigns to shut down energy infrastructure, targeting “some of the most iconic and dangerous fossil fuel projects all over the world” with civil disobedience.

The Break Free site’s opening page invites viewers to “join a global wave of resistance to keep coal, oil and natural gas in the ground.” And that’s where some unions have taken issue.

The United Steelworkers, or USW, this week released a response. “Short-sighted and narrow-focused activities like 350.org’s ‘Break Free’ actions,” they write, “make it much more challenging to work together to create and envision a clean energy economy.” Three of the locations targeted — in Pennsylvania, Indiana and Washington — are USW-represented refineries. The union argues that, despite record growth in renewables, the economy will continue to be reliant on fossil fuels for some time. “Shutting down a handful of refineries in the United States,” they say, “would lead to massive job loss in refinery communities, increased imports of refined oil products, and ultimately no impact on global carbon emissions.” Rather, refineries and their workers should be brought into the clean energy economy.

The statement ends arguing that, “We can’t choose between good jobs or a healthy environment. If we don’t have both, we’ll have neither.” In more familiar terms, Breaking Free — for the USW — sounds like a case of jobs versus the environment.

While similar releases are standard fare for other unions, the 30,000-member USW is one of the country’s most progressive — even when it comes to environmental issues.

“People assume that because we’re an industrial union that our leadership doesn’t care about the environment,” Roxanne Brown told me. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”

Brown is the assistant legislative director at USW, and emphasized the union’s long history of work on environmental issues. The USW hosted a conference in support of air pollutant regulations in the late 1960s, early on rejecting the kind of weaponized jobs versus environment rhetoric that has cropped up around the Keystone XL pipeline and other extraction fights.

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Stranded Assets and Thermal Coal in Japan: An analysis of environment-related risk exposure

Submitted by x332349 on Tue, 05/03/2016 - 16:24

By Ben Caldecott, Gerard Dericks, Daniel J. Tulloch, Lucas Kruitwagen, and Irem Kok - Oxford, May 2016

Deploying a ‘bottom up’ asset-level methodology, we analysed the exposure of all of Japan’s current and planned coal-fired power stations to environment-related risk. Planned coal capacity greatly exceeds that required for replacement - by 191%. This may result in overcapacity and combined with competition from other forms of generation capacity with lower marginal costs (e.g. nuclear and renewables), lead to significant asset stranding of coal generation assets. Stranded coal assets in Japan would affect utility returns for investors; impair the ability of utilities to service outstanding debt obligations; and create stranded assets that have to be absorbed by taxpayers and ratepayers.

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EcoUnionist News #102

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 19:02

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, May 3, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

Heatwaves will hit workers’ health in warming world, warns UN - By Arthur Neslen, Climate Change News, April 28, 2016
Rail workers dispute lobby group’s take on Lac Mégantic disaster - By Grant Robertson, Toronto Globe and Mail, April 28, 2016; [related] As Lac-Mégantic proved, braking procedures matter - By Ron Kaminkow, Toronto Globe and Mail, April 28, 2016
Fossil Capital: the rise of steam power and the roots of global warming - By Irma Allen, The Ecologist, April 27, 2016
Loservilles and Ghost Dance - By George Wuerthner, Counterpunch, April 26, 2016
Misunderstanding the Leap, critics fall flat - By Christopher Majka, Rabble.Ca, April 26, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

Northern Arizona U. Students Launch Sit-In as Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Sweeps Country - Michaela Mujica-Steiner and Karina Gonzalez by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, April 29, 2016
Reclaim the power! Progress towards a fossil-free UK - By Guy Shrubsole, The Ecologist, April 29, 2016

Just Transition:

Solidarity Sunday celebrates community resistance to opencast coal mining - By Staff, Reclaim the Power, May 1, 2016
Devil capitalism sending us to hell - By Gary Engler, The New Commune-ist Manifesto, April 29, 2016
USW response to 350.org’s ‘Break Free from Fossil Fuel’ actions targeting oil refineries - By Staff, United Steelworkers, April 26, 2016; [counterpoint] Can the Climate Movement Break Free From the 'Jobs vs. Environment' Debate? - By Kate Aronoff, Common Dreams, April 30, 2016; [related] Using the “Public Trust” to Frame “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Actions - By Jeremy Brecher and David Solnit, Labor Network for Sustainability, April 29, 2016
Benefits of Community Energy in Canada - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, April 24, 2016
Demanding a Just Transition for Peabody Coal Workers - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, April 24, 2016
Employment in Canadian Clean Tech and U.S. Clean Energy - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, April 24, 2016
The Leap Manifesto is a path to jobs and justice - By Crystal Lameman, Toronto Globe and Mail, April 22, 2016
Comment: Switched On London launch bid for new municipal energy company - By Archie Davies, Greenpeace Energy Desk, April 21, 2016
As Oil Jobs Dry Up, Workers Turn to Solar Sector - By Lynn Cook, Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2016

Bread and Roses:

March For Dignity International Workers Day - By staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, April 28, 2016
National boycott of Wendy’s spreads westward during Month of Outrage… - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, April 28, 2016
Peasants in Asia give inputs to ‘UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants & Other People Working in Rural Areas’ - By staff, La Via Campesina, April 28, 2016
Migrant agricultural workers dreaming a better future - By Scott Neigh, Rabble.Ca, April 27, 2016
Farm Defenders Occupy the Gill Tract Again to Halt Construction Indefinitely - By staff, Earth First! Newswire, April 26, 2016
Back to the future: Wendy’s shows 20th century disdain for consumers’ intelligence with 21st century marketing push… - By staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, April 25, 2016
Food Products Industry and their Supply Chains - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, April 25, 2016
Student Activists Confront PepsiCo Executive on Conflict Palm Oil - By Jessica Serrante, The Understory, April 25, 2016

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Alpha, Arch, Peabody Energy: Bad Business Decisions are the True War on Coal

Submitted by x332349 on Sun, 05/01/2016 - 13:55

By staff - Public Citizen, May 2016

Over the past year, three of the United States’ major coal companies filed for bankruptcy: Alpha Natural Resources in August 2015; Arch Coal in January 2016; and Peabody Energy in April 2016.3 Although these companies and their trade association allies have often blamed environmental regulations for their precarious financial state, the truth is that debt-fueled acquisitions hobbled their finances at a time when market conditions were rapidly souring. Namely, Alpha Natural Resources, Peabody Energy, and Arch Coal bet big on future Chinese coal demand growth in 2011, going into debt to finance major expansions into metallurgical coal production during the year it was at peak price, only to see markets decline soon after the transactions were complete. At the same time, top executives were awarded record financial compensation, while slashing employee benefits and laying off workers.

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EcoUnionist News #101

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 04/25/2016 - 16:57

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 25, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

Climate Change Emergency Shakes Canada’s Corporate Establishment - By Roger Annis, Counterpunch, April 22, 2016
Kuwaiti Oil Workers End Three Day Strike - By Homoud Halabi, Facts For Working People, April 22, 2016
Why BP's $20 Billion Settlement is Business as Usual in the Gulf of Mexico - By Antonia Juhasz, The Real News Network, April 20, 2016
An Insider’s Exposé of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster - By Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai, Counterpunch, April 19, 2016
NGO Releases Open Letter to UNFCCC Climate Secretariat & IPCC SEEKING IMMEDIATE SURVIVAL MITIGATION by Acknowledging of Global State of Climate and Oceans Emergency on Eve of Signing the Ineffectual Paris Agreement at UN Headquarters, New York - Media Release, GLOBAL CLIMATE & OCEANS EMERGENCY, April 18, 2016
The Only Force That Can Combat Imperialism Today Is a Worldwide Struggle of Workers - John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Mohsen Abdelmoumen, Monthly Review, April 16, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

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Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition

Submitted by x344543 on Sun, 04/24/2016 - 11:54

By Patrick Young - Counterpunch, April 21, 2016

As the climate crisis continues to deepen and as it becomes less and less plausible that current efforts to curb global warming will even come close to preventing our earth from crossing the 2 degree Celsius ‘red line,’ the climate movement has shifted towards a bolder vision for climate action. Virtually every pole of the climate movement has evolved towards a set of bolder, more urgent demands and the mantra ‘keep it in the ground’ has begun to dominate the discussion about fossil fuel extraction and use.

While this bold position certainly reflects the urgency of the threat of climate change, the immediacy of the demand presents a new set of challenges for the climate movement. What happens to the millions of working families who are currently depending on incomes from jobs in and related to the fossil fuel industry? And what happens to communities whose economies rely on income from the fossil fuel industry and the low income workers as revenue dries up and energy costs rise?

According recent data from the BLS, 761,000 workers are employed in the extraction and mining sector and 116,700 workers are employed in the refining and processing sector in the United States alone. Each one of those direct fossil fuel industry jobs supports as many as 7 related jobs—from delivery drivers, equipment manufacturers, to the clerks at the mini-mart across the street from the power plant that workers stop into on their way to work. In total, it is fair to say that more than 6 million workers rely on the fossil fuel industry for their livelihoods in the US alone.

If we are going to keep fossil fuels in the ground, what happens to those 6 million working families?

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Just Transition, System Change, and Revolutionary Green Transformation

Submitted by x344543 on Thu, 04/21/2016 - 16:55

By That Green Union Guy - Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 21, 2016

The term “Just Transition” is becoming increasingly prevalent in discussions involving workers, climate change, and post carbon energy economics.

Wikipedia describes Just Transition as, “a framework that has been developed by the trade union movement to encompass a range of social interventions needed to secure workers’ jobs and livelihoods when economies are shifting to sustainable production, including avoiding climate change, protecting biodiversity, among other challenges.”

This is particularly timely given the fact that humanity faces a deepening crises due to global warming, brought on by capitalist economic activity centered on a fossil-fuel based economy. In order to prevent the absolute worst case scenarios of what will almost undoubtedly a warming world, at least 80% of the known fossil fuel reserves will need to remain unextracted, and humanity will need to transition to a renewable energy based post-carbon economy. Such a shift will inevitably require a massive transformation of the means of production, likely affecting much of the working class.

Already we’re witnessing the beginnings of major upheaval simply due to the innate characteristics of chaotic capitalist market activity, as 100,000s of workers jobs are imperiled by collapsing coal, oil, and commodities markets worldwide, combined with just the beginnings of a major shift as disruptive technologies such as wind and solar achieve greater and greater share of the mix of energy sources now available.

Furthermore, climate justice and/or environmental activists know—at least intuitively—that the fossil fuel based economy, including all parts of its supply chain must be shut down as rapidly as possible and replaced by ecologically sustainable alternatives, and all attempts at expansion of the fossil fuel based activity must be opposed, by any means necessary, including (but limited to) direct action.

In this context, the issue of jobs and just transition has become a major topic. Obviously, shutting down any project cold (even if possible) would result in the loss of jobs performed by the workers, who’re not responsible for the activities of their employers (and quite likely do not entirely agree with their employers’ motives). Even limiting such projects can potentially negatively affect the workers’ livelihoods. Given such a threat, it’s understandable that these workers would oppose efforts by climate justice and environmental activists to disrupt fossil fuel supply chains.

It’s not a new concept...

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EcoUnionist News #100

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 18:09

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 19, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

Is the Seafood You Eat Caught by Slaves? Meet the Pulitzer Winners Who Broke Open a Global Scandal - Robin McDowell and Martha Mendoza by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, April 18, 2016
Justice for Berta: Join us to stand in solidarity with COPINH - By Friends of the Earth Europe and Protection International Invitation, La Via Campesina, April 16, 2016
Noam Chomsky: There's a Huge Desire to Revamp Our Exploitive Economy, Bubbling in the Collective Unconscious - By Noam Chomsky, Alternet, April 15, 2016
Can We Reduce CO2 Emissions And Grow the Global Economy? - By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360, April 14, 2016
Clinton misleads public; fracking cannot be regulated - By Deborah Burger and Sean Sweeney, Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, April 14, 2016
Peabody’s Declaration of Bankruptcy is “No Surprise” - By Jihan Gearon and Wahleah Johns, Indigenous Environmental Network, April 14, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
Earth Day to May Day! - April 22-May 1, 2016
Flush the TPP - Ongoing through 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

Oregon LNG withdraws Warrenton project - By Derrick DePledge, Daily Astorian, April 15, 2016; [related] The Ten-Year-Long Fight against Oregon LNG Is Over - By Roy L Hales, The EcoReport, April 15, 2016
Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights - By Mark Hand, CounterPunch, April 12, 2016

Just Transition:

Oil and Gas Workers Respond to Alberta Budget: Positive Steps on Training and Renewable Energy - By Robbie Jarvis, Iron and Earth, April 18, 2016
Vattenfall takes US$3bn hit to exit German coal operations - By Megan Darby, Climate Change News, April 18, 2016
Australia’s biggest super fund makes start on fossil fuel divestment - By Dan Gocher, REnew Economy, April 15, 2016
The Leap: Time for a reality check - By Naomi Klein, Rabble.Ca, April 14, 2016
To 'Leap' or to sleep? That is the question - By Ole Hendrickson, Rabble.Ca, April 14, 2016
Taking a Leap - By Staff, Northern Rockies Rising Tide, April 14, 2016
Tata Steel & new energy infrastructure: is it really that hard to put 2 & 2 together? - By Adam Corner, Climate Outreach, April 14, 2016
CCA Transforming Electricity in California - By Paul Fenn, Local Power, April 13, 2016
More Californians work in “Advanced Energy” jobs than in farming or Hollywood - By Heather Smith, Grist, April 13, 2016
Ontario needs a bold new steel strategy - By Carter Vance, Rabble.Ca, April 12, 2016
Wind energy construction rebounds across U.S., Texas - By James Osborne, FuelFix, April 12, 2016
Climate justice movement shakes Canada’s New Democratic Party - By Richard Fidler, Life on the Left, April 11, 2016
Energy Democracy Perspectives: David Boys (PSI) [video] - By Transnational Institute, YouTube, April 8, 2016

Bread and Roses:

PFF opposes capitalism model of agriculture to save land and livelihoods - By Staff, La Via Campesina, April 18, 2016
Public land for public good - By Staff, La Via Campesina, April 18, 2016
Sarasota Herald Tribune: “Farmworkers’ coalition has transformed Florida fields…” - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, April 18, 2016
Solidarity Action by BAFLF & NWFA - By Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation and National Women Farmers & Workers Association, La Via Campesina, April 18, 2016
UAWC's statement on the occasion of international Peasant Day - By Union of Agricultural Work Committees, La Via Campesina, April 18, 2016
Brazil at Brasilia: Camp for Democracy already counts with more than 3.5 thousand people - By Adi Spezia and Flávia Quirino, La Via Campesina, April 17, 2016
International Day of Peasant Struggles 2016: Celebration, resistance and mourning - By European Coordination Via Campesina, La Via Campesina, April 17, 2016
Farmworker Rights Advocates from Watsonville CA Commit to Pressure Driscoll’s at their Corporate Headquarters - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, April 16, 2016
La Vía Campesina: In defense of democracy and the social civil rights in Brazil - By La Via Campesina International, La Via Campesina, April 16, 2016
USFSA Statement on International Day of Peasants and Farmers Struggles - By US Food Sovereignty Alliance, La Via Campesina, April 16, 2016
Fighting for Food - By Ben O’Hanlon, New Internationalist, April 15, 2016
Millions Face Starvation As Haiti’s Drought Stretches Into Its Third Year - By Beenish Ahmed, Think Progress, April 15, 2016
Mundemba Declaration: Women and the expansion of oil palm plantations and industrial palm oil - By various, World Rainforest Movement, April 15, 2016
The Right to Food Sovereignty: public peasant consultation - By Staff, La Via Campesina, April 15, 2016
Tea strike! Women workers unite and win in Kerala, India - By Smita Ramanathan, Rabble.Ca, April 14, 2016
Mexico: Military Sent to Intimidate Land Defenders Fighting Airport Construction | 12 abr: Incursiona el Ejército en tierras ejidales de Atenco - By Staff, Centros de Medios Libres | (translated by Earth First! Journal), April 13, 2016
Global Fisheries Are Collapsing: What Happens When There Are No Fish Left? - By Dahr Jamail, Truthout, April 12, 2016
Rice not bullets: Social and climate justice for Filipino farmers - By Chaya Ocampo Go, Rabble.Ca, April 12, 2016; [related] Food, not bullets! (A Statement on the Kidapawan Massacre) - By Philippine Task Force on Indigenous Peoples' Rights, X Rappler, April 12, 2016
Worker Wisdom in a Changing Climate | Tina Sandoval | Fight for $15 - By Brooke Anderson, Climate Worker, April 12, 2016
Mexico: Indigenous Land Defenders Attacked by State Police in San Francisco Xochicuautla - By Erin Gallagher, Revolution News, April 11, 2016

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EcoUnionist News #99

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 04/11/2016 - 18:01

Compiled by x344543 - IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus, April 12, 2016

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

Lead Stories:

Bernie Sanders is Right: Regulation Isn’t Enough, We Need to Ban Fracking - By Deborah Burger, Common Dreams, April 7, 2016
Changing Everything - By Steven Gorelick, Counterpunch, April 7, 2016
Martin Luther King Was Assassinated On (April 4) in 1968—While Fighting For Unions - By Peter Cole, In These Times, April 4, 2016
The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis - By Rana Foroohar, Time, April 4, 2016
The Dammed of the Earth: The Deadly Impact of Mega Hydroelectric Projects in Latin America - By Sian Cowman and Philippa de Boissière, Dorset Chiapas Solidarity, April 3, 2016
Gas Pipeline Resisters [including IWW members] Arrested, Held for Outrageous Bail - By Anne Meador, DC Media Group, March 31, 2016

Ongoing Mobilizations:

Break Free 2016 - May 2016
Convergence In Support of Eco-Prisoners & Against Toxic Prisons - June 11-13, 2016
Earth Day to May Day! - April 22-May 1, 2016
Flush the TPP - Spring 2016 | #FlushtheTPP
March for a Clean Energy Revolution - July 24, 2016, Philadelphia | #CleanEnergyMarch
TWAC Cascadia 2016 - August 8th-15th 2016

The Thin Green Line:

The Thin Green Line: Victories and Challenges (audio) - By Keiko Budech, Sightline Institute, April 7, 2016

Just Transition:

Organizers 'heartened' by NDP's adopted Leap Manifesto resolution - By Various, Rabble.Ca, April 11, 2016
Imagining a new post office for the post-carbon economy (audio) - By Redeye Collective, Rabble.Ca, April 9, 2016
THANK YOU!!! - By Iron and Earth, Iron and Earth, April 7, 2016
Oakland Police and Fire Pension Considers Fossil Fuel Divestment - By Darwin BondGraham, East Bay Express, April 6, 2016
COAL: the Vagina Monologues of climate change - By Veena Vasista, Transformation, April 4, 2016
I have seen the techno-future, and I’m not so sure it works - By Gabriel Levy, People and Nature, April 4, 2016
Oilsands workers for renewable energy - By Sheelagh Matthews, Western Wheel, March 30, 2016
Considering Just Transition in an Australian Context - By Elizabeth Perry, Work and Climate Change Report, March 28, 2016
Solar Skills Press Conference Audio (audio) - By Devin Tepleski, Iron and Earth, March 21, 2016
Doubling Today’s Share of Renewables will Create 24 Million Jobs, Boost GDP by $1.3 Trillion and Save 4 Million Lives a Year - By Ilario D'Amato, The Climate Group, March 17, 2016

Bread and Roses:

Capitalism And Global Agribusiness: From Ford To Monsanto, It’s For Your Own Good - By Colin Todhunter, Counterpunch, April 11, 2016
Familias Unidas at Labor Notes Conference in Chicago, IL - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, April 11, 2016
MST: Call for International Mobilizations on April 15 - By MST, La Via Campesina, April 11, 2016
Oakland and Watsonville Supporters Take Action to Support Farm Workers - By Staff, Boycott Sakuma Berries, April 10, 2016
Military police and gunmen attack Landless families, murder two workers - By MST, La Via Campesina, April 8, 2016
Freedom Network, national leader in fight against modern-day slavery, makes its voice heard in Wendy’s Month of Outrage! - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, April 7, 2016
Patrick Holden: 'cheap' food is costing the Earth, and our health - By Emily Lewis-Brown, The Ecologist, April 7, 2016
La Via Campesina organizes the International Conference of Agrarian Reform in Brazil - By Viviana Rojas Flores, La Via Campesina, April 6, 2016
Monsanto's Evil Twin: Disturbing Facts About the Fertilizer Industry - By Martha Rosenberg and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association, April 6, 2016
Urgent: Campaign for remission of Andrés Bódalo's sentence - By Union of Agricultural Workers-Union of Andalusian Workers, La Via Campesina, April 5, 2016
Agriculture on the Brink - By Dahr Jamail, Truthout, April 4, 2016
CIW, Florida allies kick off “Month of Outrage” in Naples! - By Staff, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, April 4, 2016
Criminalizing farmers' activism in Colombia - By Fernanda Sánchez Jaramillo, Rabble.Ca, April 4, 2016
Two books that swim against the tide - By Sarah Ensor, International Socialism, April 4, 2016
When there is an advance in food sovereignty in one part of the world, our entire movement advances - By Staff, La Via Campesina, April 4, 2016
EPA Set to Approve Use of Toxic Pesticide Dicamba for Newest GE Crops - By Nathan Donley, Center for Biological Diversity, April 1, 2016
Whole Foods Gets Educated on Driscoll's Berry Boycott - By R. Robertson, Indybay, March 31, 2016

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Just Transition:

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Lead Stories:

Ongoing Mobilizations:

The Thin Green Line:

Just Transition:

Bread and Roses:

Lead Stories:

Ongoing Mobilizations:

The Thin Green Line:

Just Transition:

Bread and Roses:

Lead Stories:

Ongoing Mobilizations:

The Thin Green Line:

Just Transition:

Bread and Roses:

Lead Stories:

Ongoing Mobilizations:

The Thin Green Line:

Just Transition:

Bread and Roses:

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