by BrendanS | Aug 28, 2014 | Local Organizing, Uncategorized
ORGANIZER (Fall/Winter 2014 and Spring 2015) The Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) is a national organization with a vision of a just transition to full spectrum sustainability (economic, social and environmental). LNS works at the nexus of the labor movement and...
by BrendanS | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
[By Jeremy Brecher] Forty years ago I published a study of peak periods of American labor conflict – what I dubbed periods of “mass strike” — called Strike! As I have updated the book for the fortieth anniversary edition, I have had the...
by BrendanS | Feb 5, 2014 | Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change, Uncategorized
[by Brendan Smith, May Boeve and and Kristen Sheeran] In the coming months, President Obama will decide whether to approve the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude tar-sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. We know that the pipeline...
by BrendanS | Dec 13, 2013 | Politics of Climate Change, Uncategorized
Scientists and climate protection advocates once expected that rational leaders and institutions would respond appropriately to the common threat of climate change. As Bill McKibben said of Jim Hansen and himself, “I think he thought, as did I, If we get this...
by BrendanS | Aug 26, 2013 | Politics of Climate Change, Uncategorized
[by Jeremy Brecher] The summer of 1988 was long and hot. One scorching day I casually said to a deliveryman, “Awfully hot.” He responded, “I talk with old-timers who can’t remember anything like it in 60, 70 years.” He continued,...
by BrendanS | Jul 23, 2013 | Labor and Climage Action, Uncategorized
If you saw some scary headlines about global warming recently, there is a good chance they came from a preliminary draft of the US government’s third National Climate Assessment. The NCA is as close as there is to a definitive summary of what scientists tell us...
