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If You Have a Cause You Need a Union!

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: 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

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.

How Social Movements Escape Silos

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?”

Midwest Labor-Climate Meeting – Final Opportunity to Apply!

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.