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Labor Network for Sustainability Calls for “Climate Solidarity” on Anniversary of Superstorm Sandy
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 Climate Insurgency Trilogy
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.
Climate Solidarity: Workers Vs. Warming
Climate Solidarity presents a vision for the labor climate movement. It offers a comprehensive and at times provocative view of the past, present, and future of organized labor and climate change. It provides a substantive analysis for leaders and activists in the labor climate movement. It presents a well thought out, historically informed analysis both of climate change and of organized labor.
The Huntley Experiment
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...
Jobs for Climate and Justice: A Worker Alternative to the Trump Agenda
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...
Join the Labor Network for Sustainability for People’s Climate Movement Events, April 28th-30th, Washington, DC
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?
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...
Trial of the Century Pits Trump Climate Denialism Against ‘Right to a Climate System Capable of Sustaining Human Life’
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...
Organizing Social Self-Defense Under the Trump Regime
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...
SOCIAL SELF-DEFENSE: Protecting People and Planet against Trump and Trumpism
By Jeremy Brecher Introduction: These are times to try our souls Donald Trump and a powerful collection of anti-social forces have taken control of the U.S. government. They seek permanent domination in service of their individual and class wealth and...
How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump
Donald Trump and his congressional Republican allies have taken control of the U.S. government. The result threatens to be devastating for both labor and the climate -- not to mention immigrants, African Americans, Muslims, women, children, the elderly, the disabled,...
Vermont Labor Council Initiates Social Self-Defense
by Traven Leyshon, president of the Green Mountain Labor Council, AFL-CIO and Communications & Community Engagement Coordinator Vermont State Labor Council, AFL-CIO Following on what was for many of us the surprise election of Trump, and the consolidation...
How a Railway Workers Union Won New Technology That Improves Jobs and Reduces Greenhouse Gases
By Karl (Fritz) Edler BLET Div. 482, retired Special Rep, Railroad Workers United Washington, DC This is the story of one group of workers who used their union to improve their own conditions – and fight climate change – by proposing and winning their own plan...
People’s Climate Movement Groups Call for Urgent Action for Standing Rock
The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline brings together two critically important struggles for environmental justice: the centuries long struggle for respect for the sovereignty of Native tribes and the global battle to curtail the climate crisis. These issues...
U.S. Climate Envoy Jonathan Pershing: Five Feet Of Sea Level Rise By 2050 Possible
The original article written by Daphne Wysham can be found at the [Huffington Post] The mood in Marrakech was somber when top climate envoy for President Barack Obama Jonathan Pershing dropped a bombshell on observers gathered there: The rapid warming in polar regions...
