The Rise of the New Power Co-Op Movement

By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Breakdown at Copenhagen. Climate legislation stalled. EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses threatened. Is climate protection dead? Maybe not. Climate protection has gone local. Political leaders may fiddle while the world burns, but...

Workers of the World – Cool It!

The meeting you probably heard about: At the end of June, leaders from the world’s richest and largest countries met in Toronto, Canada.  As the global economy festered in its worst crisis since the 1930s, as poverty and unemployment tormented growing millions,...

California Steamin’

“The California Jobs Initiative.”  Sounds like a good idea.  After all, California’s unemployment rate is now over twelve percent. But there’s something a little funny here.  Turns out that the main financial backers of the “California...

Making Climate Protection Worker-Friendly

by Joe Uehlein “There are no jobs on a dead planet.” That’s how one union leader answered those who say that unions should be concerned only about jobs, and leave the planet to someone else to take care of. Many unions and both labor federations...