March 26, 2012 Statement by the Labor Network For Sustainability On March 24, Occupy Wall Street held a Disrupt Dirty Power action to kick off a month of climate and environmental protests leading up to Earth Day; Labor Network for Sustainability’s Jeremy Brecher was the main speaker. (WSJ Marketwatch posted a video of… Read More »
OCCUPY CLIMATE CHANGE
March 15, 2012 Originally published by The Nation. Watch a video interview of Jeremy here: Occupy Climate Change Video Occupy Wall Street’s original Declaration of the City of New York, in September, listed a litany of issues, from foreclosures and bailouts to outsourcing and cruelty to animals, but it barely mentioned the environment… Read More »
DIRTY VS. GREEN JOBS: LABOR’S KEYSTONE DILEMMA
March 12, 2012 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher These are tough times to be a construction worker in America. While other sectors of the economy are showing signs of life, the unemployment rate in the construction industry is getting worse, not better – rising from 13% to 16% in January. It is… Read More »
KEYSTONE XL OPPONENTS NEED A JOBS PROGRAM
February 2, 2012 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Cross-posted with Grist Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking a well-deserved victory lap. The Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada’s pipeline proposal “” at least for now “” represents an historic win for the environmental movement, and reveals the potency of the… Read More »
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