by Matthew McIntosh, originally broadcast 24 November 2024 on “Talkin’ Shop: a Labor, Organizing and work podcast”, accessible here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0k2HxuLxy8RB0xJCCKtifS?si=kwSuk7thTkSc9EWg23M9Hg&nd=1&dlsi=4da0151e006f41ea

by Margaret Flowers, originally published 26 November 2024 on Foreign Policy in Focus, accessible here: https://www.nationofchange.org/2024/11/26/people-are-creating-the-green-new-deal-at-the-grassroots-level/ People are taking action at every level of society from students and workers to tribes to cities and states to create the transformation we need. Image Credit: Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The federal government, whether under Democratic… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 20 November 2024 on Foreign Policy in Focus, accessible here: https://fpif.org/the-green-new-deal-from-below/ The Trump administration will not be Green-friendly. But communities can still build energy and environment alternatives from the bottom up. To resist and eventually overcome the looming authoritarian national government, we need to create bastions of what the Polish… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 13 December 2024 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/inequality-and-the-polycrisis/ Listen to the audio version >> Notwithstanding its many downsides, the era of neoliberal globalization had one significant claim to success: the growing wealth of once-poor countries, based largely on their ability to export into the global… Read More »