by BrendanS | Jun 14, 2013 | Just Transition, Uncategorized
[Editor’s Note: Indigenous peoples, communities of color, and working-class white communities are among the hardest hit by the floods, heat waves, storms, droughts, and other results of climate change. At the same time they experience disproportionate rates of...
by BrendanS | May 13, 2013 | Labor and Climage Action, Uncategorized
[By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability] American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future. Gina McCarthy, President Barack Obama’s nominee to...
by BrendanS | Mar 28, 2013 | Labor-Environmental Cooperation, Uncategorized
by Gus Speth and Joe Uehlein During our many decades of work in the labor and environmental movements, there have been many battles that led to tensions between our communities. The Keystone Pipeline is only the most recent example. To help overcome these challenges,...
by BrendanS | Mar 22, 2013 | Labor-Environmental Cooperation, Uncategorized
[by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] This is a call for environmentalists and other critics of coal to come to the aid of America’s miners. Whenever government protection of workers health and safety or the environment rears its ugly head, America’s coal...
by BrendanS | Sep 9, 2012 | Just Transition, post, Uncategorized
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy by James Gustave Speth shows that it’s possible to fix our economy, our environment, and our democracy — and that each goes hand-in-hand with the others. As millions of people in the US and billions around...
by BrendanS | Jul 1, 2012 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post, Uncategorized
[by Jeremy Brecher] A quarter-century ago, when “Save the Whales!” was a popular slogan, a New Yorker cartoon showed one whale asking another, “But can they save themselves?” In the early 21st century, experts and ordinary people alike are...
