May 13, 2011 One of the memorable images of the Vietnam war era was a news photo of hard-hatted construction workers beating up peace demonstrators near a New York construction site. The AFL-CIO was one of the leading supporters of the war. Although by the late 1960s working class communities prompted in part by… Read More »
NEXT STEPS FOR GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW
May 13, 2011 Previous posts have described the vision laid out in the “Bejiing Declaration”on “The global economic crisis: An historic opportunity for transformation” and the specific proposals that make up its “transitional program” to move toward a “radically different kind of political and economic order.” This post looks at next steps toward realizing such… Read More »
CITING JOBS AND ENVIRONMENT, MORE UNIONS BACKING EPA
April 21, 2011 At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it looked like public opinion and organized labor might just be swept along. Instead, much of the public and the labor movement have… Read More »
SHOULD WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?
March 31, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher To talk of climate change or not to talk of climate change — that is the question.For the last several years many of the biggest players in the climate movement have argued that to save the planet we need to purge the words “global warming” and… Read More »
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