Climate Strikes
Climate Jobs Are Here
The first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act created nearly 150,000 clean energy jobs according to a new report by nonpartisan business group E2.
Solar Manufacturer Pledges to Respect Worker Rights
The United Steelworkers Union (USW) recently announced an agreement with Convalt Energy mutually pledging to prioritize workers’ rights as together they work to bring solar energy manufacturing back to the United States.
Protecting the DC Circulator
The mayor’s office of Washington DC is cutting a vital service to the riders, visitors, and especially workers of the region- the red yellow colored downtown buses known as the DC Circulator.
Is UPS Meeting Its Heat Commitments?
Members of Teamsters Local 657, which represents workers at 22 UPS facilities in Texas, rallied August 28 to demand the company move faster on the union contract it signed with the Teamsters last year.
Champions: Lois Gibbs
“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker- and climate- safe world.
Will Polycentrism Solve the Polycrisis?
Unilateral US dominance is increasingly challenged in the era of overlapping crises that is now often being referred to as “the polycrisis.” This has led many countries to advocate for what they call “polycentrism,” a world order in which no single country is dominant. But simply having a larger number of elites plundering their own and other countries is unlikely to provide a solution to the polycrisis. That requires that countries pursue not only interests of their own elites, but the common global interest that has been so rubbished in the unipolar era.
US vs. China
In barely a decade the US and China have moved from tacit alignment to existential rivalry. Impacted by and impacting the other dynamics of the convergence of crises that compose the “polycrisis,” the US and China are openly preparing for war – a war that could all too easily escalate into World War III. This is the sixth of a series of Strike! commentaries on “The Polycrisis and the Global Green New Deal.”
LNS Spotlight: José T. Bravo
José T. Bravo is a veteran environmental justice organizer and executive director of the Just Transition Alliance where for more than 25 years, he has led a coalition of environmental justice and labor organizations to work with frontline workers and fenceline community members who live next to polluting industries in creating healthy workplaces and communities.
AFT Convention Says Implement Our Union’s “Decarbonization” Policies
Many unions have passed resolutions on climate change, but you may wonder how to make them more than “feel good” statements that have no effect on the struggle to protect the climate. The convention of the American Federation of Teachers just passed an action agenda, promoted by its Climate and Environmental Justice Caucus, to implement the strong climate resolutions the union has passed in the past.
Join Philly Rally September 7 to “Save Our Chinatown”
The public is invited to join young organizers and Asian Americans United for a solidarity rally on Sep. 7, 2024 at Noon EST at Philadelphia City Hall to protect Chinatown against unwelcome development.