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Connecticut’s Electric Utilities: Time to Revise the Model
[Like other states, Connecticut has an electric system based on a one-way flow of energy from a central generating stations to consumers — and this model is now obsolete. It is failing to capture new opportunities for distributed renewable energy, and it is failing to meet new problems like climate change and energy insecurity. This discussion paper examines how to revise Connecticut’s electric system to make it safe for the earth’s climate — and how to get the electric utilities to make the changes that are necessary. Here’s the full pdf of the discussion paper entitled: Connecticut’s Electric Utilities: Time to Revise the Model. Read the introduction below.]
Climate destruction in the court of public opinion
[by Jeremy Brecher] As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political...
Battling Ebola: Nursing in the Era of Climate Change
[Nurses are asking all Americans to sign a petition demanding protection for frontline health care workers who are protecting us all from the threat of Ebola. Tamanna Rahman and Brendan Smith tell us why.] As the Ebola outbreak continues to dominate headlines, so too...
Our Climate is a Public Trust
[by Jeremy Brecher] Can an ancient legal principle with roots in Roman law serve as a tool for the climate protection movement? On October 23, Alec Johnson, aka "Climate Hawk," is scheduled to go on trial for locking himself to a construction excavator in Tushka,...
The rebellion to save planet Earth:
The rebellion to save planet Earth: The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have...
If Not Now When: Labor Needs a Climate Plan
Labor needs to propose a climate protection strategy of its own -- one that realistically protects the livelihood and wellbeing of working people and helps reverse America's trend to greater inequality while reducing greenhouse gas emissions at the speed scientists...
Making a Living on a Living Planet
by Joe Uehlein; cross-posted with Common Dreams September 2014 On Labor Day 1940, American workers faced the aftermath of the Great Depression, with mass unemployment persisting and a divided labor movement facing a renewed counterattack from corporate America. They...
Connecticut Unions Back Peoples Climate March
Eight Connecticut labor organizations, including the state AFL-CIO, have endorsed the People's Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21: 32BJ SEIU CT American Federation of Teachers - CT CT AFL-CIO CT Education Association CT State Council SEIU Council 4...
Unions Confronting the Climate Crisis
Sean Sweeney of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Jeremy Brecher of the Labor Network for Sustainability discuss the significant labor ferment around the climate crisis. Climate change changes everything: everything about how we organize society, how we conduct...
The Labor-Climate Landscape: A Guided Tour for Worker- and Climate-Protection Advocates
This “guided tour” of the “labor-climate landscape” is intended as a tool that climate protection advocates inside and outside of organized labor can use to navigate the complex and sometimes obscure world of organized labor and its approach to climate change.
Why getting arrested to resist the Keystone XL is legally justified
[By Jeremy Brecher, Cross-posted with Waging Nonviolence] Nearly 100,000 people have pledged to risk arrest if the Obama administration appears poised to give approval to the Keystone XL pipeline. While it would be difficult to prove, it seems likely that the specter...
Unions backing historical Peoples Climate March
[By Jeremy Brecher]Delegates to Connecticut State Council of Machinists (CSCM) conference at the end of June voted unanimously to endorse and participate in the historic People’s Climate March set for Sunday, September 21, 2014 in Manhattan. This was just the most...
Where Should the Divestors Invest?
[By Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher and Kristen Sheeran] The stunning success of the fossil fuel divestment movement has caught many of us off-guard. Almost daily, new universities and foundations are committing to redirecting their endowments from companies that are...
‘Jobs vs. the Environment’: How to Counter This Divisive Big Lie
[by Jeremy Brecher, original posted at the Nation.com] In an era in which our political system is dominated by plutocracy, grassroots social movements are essential for progressive change. But too often our movements find themselves at loggerheads over the seemingly...
Civil Disobedience as Law Enforcement
[by Jeremy Brecher; cross-posted with Waging Nonviolence] Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then many more have been arrested around the...
