by BrendanS | Oct 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement? On October 23, Alec Johnson, aka “Climate Hawk,” is scheduled to go on trial for locking himself to a construction excavator in...
by BrendanS | Sep 20, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post, Uncategorized
The rebellion to save planet Earth: The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have...
by BrendanS | Sep 20, 2014 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, LNS News, post
Labor needs to propose a climate protection strategy of its own — one that realistically protects the livelihood and wellbeing of working people and helps reverse America’s trend to greater inequality while reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the speed...
by BrendanS | Aug 28, 2014 | Local Organizing, Uncategorized
ORGANIZER (Fall/Winter 2014 and Spring 2015) The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) is a national organization with a vision of a just transition to full spectrum sustainability (economic, social and environmental). LNS works at the nexus of the labor movement and...
by BrendanS | Aug 28, 2014 | Articles, Just Transition
by Joe Uehlein; cross-posted with Common Dreams September 2014 On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America. They...
