by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
It all started when the General Iron Company decided to move its car-shredding operation to Chicago’s Southeast Side community. Students, teachers, and community members held numerous marches and demonstrations to protest the move to a location little more than half a...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
In response to the Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v EPA that gutted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Marie Owens Powell, President of AFGE Council 238, which represents EPA employees, recently stated, The...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
At its 29th Constitutional Convention in June, the AFL-CIO passed a resolution on “Climate Change, Energy and Union Jobs.” The resolution begins by pointing out the threat of climate change and the necessity of reducing emissions to meet it: The effects of climate...
by Ming Yuen | Aug 31, 2022 | Articles
Social movement researcher Dalilah Shemia-Goeke recently reviewed Common Preservation in a Time of Mutual Destruction by LNS co-founder and senior advisor Jeremy Brecher. Her review, “How a Global Nonviolent Insurgency Could Prevent Climate Destruction,” was published...
