October 2, 2014 By JoAnn Wypijewski (A shorter version of this piece was published in CounterPunch Magazine, September 19, 2014). JoAnn Wypijewski’s column “Diamonds and Rust” appears regularly in CounterPunch. She is co-editor, with Kevin Alexander Gray and Jeffrey St. Clair, of Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence, just out from… Read More »
THE REBELLION TO SAVE PLANET EARTH: WHY CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE COULD BE OUR LAST, BEST HOPE
September 7, 2014 By Ted Hamilton (www.salon.com) The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the “Big Green” NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices — and new strategies — have taken the lead in the war against fossil… Read More »
CONNECTICUT UNIONS BACK PEOPLES CLIMATE MARCH
August 24, 2014 Eight Connecticut labor organizations, including the state AFL-CIO, have endorsed the People’s Climate March in New York City on Sunday, September 21: 32BJ SEIU CT American Federation of Teachers – CT CT AFL-CIO CT Education Association CT State Council SEIU Council 4 AFSCME CT State Council of Machinists United Auto Workers… Read More »
UNIONS CONFRONTING THE CLIMATE CRISIS
August 22, 2014 Sean Sweeney of Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and Jeremy Brecher of the Labor Network for Sustainability discuss the significant labor ferment around the climate crisis. Climate change changes everything: everything about how we organize society, how we conduct politics, and how we envision the role of an organized labor movement… Read More »
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