April 29, 2009 Statement by the Labor Network For Sustainability Obama’s climate czar Carol Browner said last week there will be no U.S. climate protection legislation before the Copenhagen conference and that she doesn’t know if a global agreement on binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can be made in Copenhagen. She added that… Read More »
THE G-20 VS. THE G-6 BILLION
March 31, 2009 The message from last weekend’s G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: The game can’t go on. The game must go on. In the face of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, European leaders had flirted with the idea… Read More »
HOW THE G-20 CAN PAY FOR A GLOBAL CLIMATE DEAL?
March 30, 2009 The G-20 summit convening in London on April 2 is preparing to create a quarter trillion dollars of brand new stimulus money to help poor countries battle the global recession. World leaders plan to use a little-known form of global currency to pay the freight, a currency known technically as “Special… Read More »
GLOBAL LABOR’S FORGOTTEN PLAN
March 16, 2009 by Tim Costello, Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-known historical might-have-been that could have… Read More »
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