by Oren Kadosh | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
By Oren Kadosh, LNS Network Organizer Some of the most exciting organizing in the country is happening at Amazon warehouses, airhubs, and delivery depots around the country. From New York to California, to Kentucky, Georgia, and Illinois, courageous and fed up Amazon...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
Z Magazine recently published a review by Alexandria Shaner of The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy by LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher. Shaner wrote: Drawing on decades of hands-on...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
This year is certain to be the hottest on record, the first that will cross the critical threshold of 1.5C above the pre-industrial era. Climate scientists believe that crossing that threshold will lead to far worse consequences from climate change. Source: Climate...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
A new report from the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University finds that president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cuts in climate policies will lead to “lost factories, lost jobs, lost tax revenue,” and “lost exports.” The report says that Scenario...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker- and climate- safe world. W.E.B. Du Bois, born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was a sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist whom the Encyclopedia...
by Jeremy Brecher | Nov 23, 2024 | Articles
Jeff Johnson is the retiring chair of the LNS board. He has been a board member since 2018 and will continue in that role. For many years he was president of the Washington State Labor Council AFL-CIO. He joined the labor movement in 1979 as a member of Local 2190,...
