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If You Have a Cause You Need a Union!
The nonprofit Breach Collective, with support from the Communications Workers of America, has just released a handbook for building worker power in the nonprofit sector.
Champions: Dorie Ladner
“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker – and climate – safe world.
LNS Spotlight – Colette Pichon Battle
Colette Pichon Battle joined the LNS Board of Directors in 2023. She is an award-winning lawyer and climate justice organizer. She is a trusted voice in the climate justice and Black liberation movements, and her work focuses on creating spaces for frontline communities to gather and advance climate strategies that help us steward the water, energy, and land.
Testimony of Joseph Uehlein on H.R. 7422, Geothermal Cost Recovery Authority Act of 2024
Testimony of Joseph Uehlein, Founder and Board President, Labor Network for Sustainability Before the House Committee on Natural Resource Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources March 6, 2024 On H.R. 7422, Geothermal Cost Recovery Authority Act of 2024 ...
How Social Movements Escape Silos
Social movements often find themselves locked into isolated silos, divided by internecine conflict, or even brutalizing each other in “circular firing squads.” This Commentary provides historical examples of how such self-destructive patterns can be overcome. An earlier version was written as a contribution to the Great Transition Initiative Forum What’s Next for the Global Movement? The series addressed the question “What’s Next for Movement Unity?”
Popular Enforcement of International Law from Vietnam to Gaza
The International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s actions in Gaza may constitute genocide in violation of international law. A US District Court has endorsed that finding and added, “It is every individual’s obligation to confront the current siege in Gaza.” What can we learn from history about the responsibility of individuals to confront war crimes and how it may be possible to do so.
LNS Spotlight: April Sims, New Member of the LNS Board
April Sims (she/her) is a new member of the LNS Board.
Midwest Labor-Climate Meeting – Final Opportunity to Apply!
April 11th – 12th in Chicago, LNS and the US Climate Action Network (USCAN) are bringing representatives of the labor-climate movement together from across the Midwest to learn from one another, deepen relationships, and develop collective strategies in pursuit of a just transition.
March 2: Join the Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Statehouse Assemblies
The Poor People’s Campaign is holding a day of nationally-coordinated direct action in 32 state capitols and D.C. on March 2.
Transit Equity Day Promotes “Stronger Communities through Better Transit”
To mark Climate Equity Day 2024, LNS Transit Organizer Bakari Height wrote in an Op Ed published in five newspapers…