September 28, 2010 Breakdown at Copenhagen. Climate legislation stalled. EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses threatened. Is climate protection dead? Maybe not. Climate protection has gone local. Political leaders may fiddle while the world burns, but grassroots groups around the country are organizing to cut greenhouse gas emissions and build a greener future for their… Read More »
GLOBALIZATION, NEOLIBERALISM, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
September 11, 2010 For thirty years, global and national economies have been guided by policies of neoliberal deregulation, often known as the “Washington Consensus.” Neoliberalism has been disastrous for workers in most countries, pitting workers against each other in a race to the bottom and making it all but impossible to protect working class… Read More »
WORKERS OF THE WORLD – COOL IT!
July 6, 2010 The meeting you probably heard about: At the end of June, leaders from the world’s richest and largest countries met in Toronto, Canada. As the global economy festered in its worst crisis since the 1930s, as poverty and unemployment tormented growing millions, as climate change devastated more and more people and… Read More »
CALIFORNIA STEAMIN’
June 10, 2010 “The California Jobs Initiative.” Sounds like a good idea. After all, California’s unemployment rate is now over twelve percent. But there’s something a little funny here. Turns out that the main financial backers of the “California Jobs Initiative” are a bunch of oilmen from Texas. Texas-based Valero Energy Corporation gave a… Read More »
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