Government Workers Will Pay the Price of Climate Change
The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Workers just passed a new resolution on climate change. Advocates used this LNS fact sheet warning that “Government workers will pay the price of climate change” and that “The failure to limit global warming is turning the climate crisis into a fiscal crisis.”
Resolution to Endorse Mobilization September 8, 2018 in San Francisco: California Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice
View the resolution in PDF here. Whereas, our members and our communities are suffering the ravages of pollution and climate change, as evidenced by extreme weather, unprecedented wild fires in urban areas and wilderness, continuing drought, rising temperatures,...
A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets
By Jeremy Brecher What’s the Constitution got to do with climate? Current legal cases are now addressing that question. They are using the U.S. Constitution to bring climate protection into the courthouse. These cases range from youth demanding their constitutional...
The New Poor People’s Campaign: Seeds of a Non-Party Opposition?
All of us who have participated in one or another aspect of what has come to be known as the Trump Resistance should think about how we should be connecting with the new Poor People’s Campaign—and with each other.
A Just Transition for Appalachia – Is There a Way?
Thirty thousand coal mining jobs have been lost since 2011. In central Appalachia, seven thousand miners lost their jobs from 2015 to 2016.54 The US Energy Information Administration expects central Appalachia’s coal output to decline nearly sixty percent by 2035,...
How New York City Won Divestment from Fossil Fuels
This campaign was years in the making, but Donald Trump’s election and the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord spurred the local activism that led to this important victory.
