May 22, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher The organization Green for All, which unites green jobs advocates from disadvantaged communities around the country, drew 1,000 people to a conference in Memphis on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. Under the name “The Dream Reborn,” the conference… Read More »
KING’S LEGACY GROWNS GREEN IN MEMPHIS
April 1, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith an Jeremy Brecher Today they’d be called “green-collar jobs” – cleaning up the environment. Back then, the workers who performed those jobs were just garbage men. And they were treated like garbage. Martin Luther King Jr. died fighting to make their green-collar jobs be good jobs…. Read More »
HOW GREEN IS YOUR COLLAR?
March 27, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars. In the short run, the Bush Administration stands in… Read More »
GLOBAL LABOR AND GLOBAL WARMING
March 10, 2008 This is the fifth in the GLS series on Labor and Global Warming. While most of organized labor in the U.S. has stood aloof or even opposed efforts to address global warming, labor movements in the rest of the world have taken a far different approach. Last November, the International Trade Union… Read More »
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