by Ming | Feb 6, 2020 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal, Jobs and Climate, Politics of Climate Change
Ryan Pollock, an inside wireman with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) writes about the recent AFL-CIO Convention in Texas: Not only were many of my fellow trades siblings—plenty of whom work in the fossil fuel industry or represent fossil...
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,...
by BrendanS | Jan 14, 2016 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] In December of 2015 – the earth’s hottest year since record keeping began — 195 nations met in Paris to forge an agreement to combat global warming. The governments of the world acknowledged their individual and collective duty to protect the...
by BrendanS | Jun 9, 2015 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change
[By Jeremy Brecher; Cross-Posted with New Labor Forum] On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generating climate catastrophe. An estimated forty...
by BrendanS | Dec 18, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political...
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...
