June 8, 2010 By Brendan Smith & Jeremy Brecher Experimentation on captive prisoners? Conducted by doctors? On orders from the US government? Some of this evidence has already emerged. A report leaked in April from the International Committee of the Red Cross suggested that health professionals had been involved in some way with interrogations of… Read More »
TRANSPORTATION UNIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
April 7, 2010 Transportation is the second biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions after electricity generation. The US transportation system alone produces more greenhouse gasses than any country in the world except China. About one half of the transportation emissions comes from commercial transportation—trucks, planes, ships, rail, and buses. The other half comes from… Read More »
LABOR AND THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
April 1, 2010 Today the American labor movement—like the rest of American society and like labor movements throughout the world—is being forced to grapple with climate change and climate change mitigation. Organized labor’s approach to climate change is primarily employment based. Unions like the green job gains; but they fear the potential job losses… Read More »
THE BUILDING TRADES AND CLIMATE CHANGE
March 31, 2010 This is the first in a series of posts designed to provide a strategy for addressing organized labor’s stake in climate change. Its goal is to provide activists inside and outside the labor movement with the information they need to help shape effective, worker friendly climate protection policies and garner support… Read More »
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