Four billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat due to human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025, scientists say.
In 2024, Britain’s Trade Union Congress voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action, engaging with community and climate justice groups. Major unions are promoting participation by their members and affiliates.
Wondering what the emerging movement against MAGA and Trump and for democracy and justice can do next? In a recent series of Commentaries, LNS Co-Founder and Senior Strategic Advisor Jeremy Brecher describes the rise of the movement to defend society against the MAGA juggernaut and proposes next steps.
The previous Strike! Commentary described how the burgeoning movement to defend society against Trump’s tyranny is developing into a movement-based opposition. This commentary examines how the actions of that opposition can expand to defeat the MAGA juggernaut.
“What happened to me is not about me; This is about something much bigger. This is about how we as a community stand together and resist the injustice that’s happening. Hard-working people, and members of our family and our community, are being treated like criminals. We all collectively have to object to this madness because this is not justice. This is injustice. And we all have to stand on the right side of justice.” SEIU United Service Workers West President David Huerta
On June 14, President Donald Trump is planning to spend $45 million in taxpayers’ money for a celebration of his birthday. In response, on that day people all over the country will celebrate NO KINGS DAY, a day of action described by its organizers as “a nationwide day of defiance.”
