by Ming | Oct 18, 2011 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change
[The following petition, initiated by Tar Sands Action, calls on the labor movement to oppose the Keystone XL Pipeline.] Dear sisters and brothers: Recently we signed this on-line petition “Labor Movement Against the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline” and we...
by Ming | Sep 19, 2011 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] The Keystone XL pipeline, recently approved by the US State Department and awaiting President Obama’s declaration that it is in the “national interest,” will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to...
by BrendanS | Aug 18, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
by Joe Uehlein Sometimes a decision forces you to think deeply about what you believe in and how you act on those beliefs. It was like that when the climate protection leader Bill McKibben asked me to sign a letter calling for civil disobedience to block the building...
by Ming | Jun 16, 2011 | Articles, Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our...
by Ming | Mar 29, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher To talk of climate change or not to talk of climate change — that is the question. For the last several years many of the biggest players in the climate movement have argued that to save the planet we need to purge the words...
