Climate Strikes

A recent article describing how farmworkers are resisting attacks on immigrant workers features LNS board member Edgar Franks, the political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington State, an independent union of primarily Indigenous Mexican farmworkers.

On November 22, environmental justice organizations from 16 Louisiana parishes rallied at the Louisiana state capitol to urge Governor Landry and Louisiana’s leaders to take immediate steps toward a Just Transition, including cutting emissions, reducing pollution, investing in clean energy jobs, strengthening protections for communities along “Cancer Alley,” and creating pathways for Louisianans to thrive in a green economy.

Some of the most exciting organizing in the country is happening at Amazon warehouses, airhubs, and delivery depots around the country. From New York to California, to Kentucky, Georgia, and Illinois, courageous and fed up Amazon workers are engaged in a mass public escalation of their union campaigns with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters that in some cases have been several years in the making.

Z Magazine recently published a review by Alexandria Shaner of The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy by LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher.

This year is certain to be the hottest on record, the first that will cross the critical threshold of 1.5C above the pre-industrial era. Climate scientists believe that crossing that threshold will lead to far worse consequences from climate change.

A new report from the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University finds that president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cuts in climate policies will lead to “lost factories, lost jobs, lost tax revenue,” and “lost exports.”

W.E.B. Du Bois, born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was a sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist whom the Encyclopedia Brittanica called “The most important Black protest leader in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.” He shared in the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and edited its magazine The Crisis from 1910 to 1934.

Jeff Johnson is the retiring chair of the LNS board. He has been a board member since 2018 and will continue in that role.

In response to the results of the elections, LNS issued the statement “Our Next Steps Together . . .” It said in part…