by Ming | Jul 30, 2018 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
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...
by Ming | Jun 14, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, pdf
A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition [1] By Arjun Makhijani, Ph.DA Joint Project of: 6935 Laurel Avenue, Suite 201Takoma Park, Maryland [email protected] 11 Pine AvenueTakoma Park, Maryland...
by Jeremy Brecher | May 24, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] Can we radically reduce the climate-destroying greenhouse gases (GHGs) we put into the atmosphere, yet also increase jobs for American workers, protect those whose jobs may be threatened by climate policies, and reduce America’s inequality and...
by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[By Jeremy Brecher] In a small church in the Albany, NY’s low-income, predominantly African-American South End, forty people were gathered for a community meeting. They were organizing a protest against trains carrying potentially explosive oil – dubbed by the...
by Ming | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action
[By Joe Uehlein and Jeremy Brecher] Step by step the American labor movement is increasingly recognizing and responding to the threat of climate change. While the AFL-CIO never supported the Kyoto or Copenhagen climate agreements on the grounds that they were bad for...
by Ming | Apr 29, 2016 | Articles, Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change
[by Jeremy Brecher, David Solnit] Thousands of us in the climate movement will engage in civil disobedience for “Break Free from Fossil Fuels” and other climate actions. We may be arrested and face legal consequences. What if we defined ourselves – to the movement,...
