By Nancy Romer

[Nancy Romer is a union and climate justice activist, a co-founder of the Environmental Justice committee of her union PSC-CUNY (AFT local #2334), and on the steering committees of Divest NY and Peoples Climate March-NY.  She recently retired after 42 years of teaching at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and served on her union’s executive committee for nine years.]

    On this fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, it is time to recognize that climate change is a dagger pointing at the jobs and well-being of American workers. Since Sandy we have seen storm after storm, wildfire after wildfire, flood after flood, all...

The Labor Network for Sustainability is pleased to announce the publication of Jeremy Brecher’s Climate Insurgency Trilogy. Together these three books present a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities of protecting the earth’s climate through a global nonviolent climate insurgency.

As the Huntley coal-fired power plant in Tonawanda, NY, a working class suburb of Buffalo, NY, began cutting back on its production, the company began cutting back on its payments to the town; as a result, three schools were closed and 135 school employees lost their...

We are in a critical political moment. The impacts of climatechange are increasingly severe, taking a toll on our health, environment and our economies. In the midst of this growing crisis, the United States now has a President and Congressional leadership that...

For those of you planning to be in Washington DC for the Peoples’ Climate Movement March for Climate, Jobs and Justice on April 29th, we invite you to join LNS for our other activities that weekend

Trump’s Energy Plan: A “Brighter Future” for American Workers? Labor Network for Sustainability   Full PDF of the White Paper can be found HERE The day he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump issued his “America First Energy Plan.”[1] It presented policies it...

Why 'Climate Kids' vs. Trump is no ordinary lawsuit by Jeremy Brecher Two days after the election of Donald Trump, 21 plaintiffs aged 9-20 won a court ruling that may be just as important as that election in determining our future. As the world hurtles into climate...

Interview with Jeremy Brecher conducted by Scott Harris The original can be found on Between the Lines Listen to the interview HERE After a polarizing presidential election campaign like few others in U.S. political history, Donald Trump will enter the White House...