by Ming | Mar 12, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition, post
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] These are tough times to be a construction worker in America. While other sectors of the economy are showing signs of life, the unemployment rate in the construction industry is getting worse, not better – rising from 13% to...
by Ming | Mar 6, 2012 | Politics of Climate Change, post
Occupy Wall Street is planning a month of action starting March 24 and leading up to Earth Day April 22. Globally coordinated actions by Occupy groups and ally organizations will “connect the dots between the 1% and the destruction of the planet.” This is...
by Ming | Feb 13, 2012 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
The fight against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has reached another crucial turning point. Big Oil has teamed up with Republicans in Congress to push a bill that would strip away decision making authority from the President and allow the Senate to resurrect the...
by Ming | Feb 2, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition, post
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher; crossposted with Grist] Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking a well-deserved victory lap. The Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada’s pipeline proposal “” at least for now “”...
by Ming | Jan 26, 2012 | Politics of Climate Change, post
[Time Magazine declared the Person of the Year for 2011 to be “The Protester.” The piece below reminds us of why. It’s a sort of romp through one swath of the protests of 2011. It emphasizes the unexpected emergence of grassroots uprisings, the...
by Ming | Nov 16, 2011 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
Nothing is more important right now for labor, for the environment, for the climate, for democracy, and for a sustainable global future than to prevent the destruction of the Occupy movements around the US by the forces of corporate greed. It is up to us — the...