Climate Strikes
Supply Chain Solidarity
By LNS Network Organizer Oren Kadosh
Nevada is “ground zero” for U.S. lithium extraction. Last month, LNS helped organize workers and activists on a tour through Nevada to observe proposed lithium mining sites and hear from Tribal, Indigenous, and frontline community members who are fighting back against the accelerating pace of mining that is threatening to turn critical ecosystems and sacred lands into profit-making sacrifice zones.
Climate Wins Amidst Electoral Gloom
According to a roundup in Inside Climate News, at least five of six climate change ballot measures were passed in the recent elections.
Climate Change: In Case You Haven’t Heard…
The World Meteorological Organization reported that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is accumulating faster than at any time in human history, with concentrations rising more than 10% in just two decades. It hit record levels in 2023 — 51% greater than before the Industrial Revolution, when people began to burn large amounts of coal, oil and fossil gas.
Massachusetts Announces Fare-Free Transit
The state of Massachusetts has announced grants to 13 Regional Transit Authorities to provide year-round, fare free public transportation services.
Climate Underground Rising
By LNS Co-Director Liz Ratzloff
I recently attended the Climate Underground conference hosted by chef Alice Waters and former Vice President Al Gore at his farm in Carthage, Tennessee. The Climate Reality Project’s conference convened farmers, scientists, chefs, non-profit staff, and others to talk about how regenerative farming practices can decrease emissions in the agricultural sector and help create more resilient farms that can better withstand the severe storms brought about by global warming.
Our Next Steps Together…
We as a nation awoke to the confirmation that Donald Trump will be serving a second term as president. For those of us who strive for climate justice and worker empowerment, this reality is an incredible setback. Trump’s approach to the environment, which the Republican Party as a whole has adopted, would roll back regulations, expand oil and gas production and curtail the federal government’s regulatory powers.
Macroeconomics Meets the Polycrisis
The convergence of crises now often referred to as “the polycrisis” was heralded by the global economic crisis known as the Great Recession. Since then neither national nor global institutions have proven able to control the destructive gyrations of the global economy.
Great Power Struggle Over Fragmented Global Networks
The global convergence of crises that has been dubbed the “polycrisis” has emerged in tandem with the decline of globalization. But what is replacing globalization is less a new system than a chaotic scramble. This is one of a series of Strike! Commentaries on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal.”
LNS Welcomes New Communications director
LNS is proud to introduce our new Communications Director, Virginia Rodino. Virginia’s professional career has focused on communications strategy for labor, non-profit, and activist organizations.
Letter from the Editor
Workers organize to protect themselves from inadequate pay, overwork, insecurity, and threats to their health and safety. And now there is another threat to workers’ wellbeing: climate change. And workers are organizing to fight it.