Climate Change
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This Is What Energy Democracy Looks Like
Profit-driven approaches to our energy supply are not working. Emissions continue to rise and our climate is rapidly changing. How can we move toward “energy democracy,” shifting to a more sustainable, equitable energy system? And what’s the role of trade unions in getting us there? This video from RLS–NYC and Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED)…
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Dead Labor on a Dead Planet: The Inconvenient Truth of Workers’ Bladders
This article was originally featured in Monthly Review Zine. By Kafui Attoh “Once labor has been embodied in instruments of production and enters the further process of labor to play its role there, it may be called, following Marx, dead labor [. . .]. The ideal toward which capitalism strives is the domination of dead…
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New Report Shows Connection Between Sea Level Rise, Affordable Housing
This weekend, over 300,000 people took to the streets to demand action on climate change. Many of the protesters took pains to demonstrate that climate change and global warming are not “just” environmental issues — they are closely connected to issues of labor, civil rights and housing, too. In a report recently released by the…
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Labor and the People’s Climate March
Photo shows Master’s degree alum Bill Cali marching with the Committee of Interns and Residents, SEIU. By Stephanie Luce Murphy faculty, staff and students were among the over-310,000 people who participated in the People’s Climate March on September 21. Labor unions first gathered for a rally at 57th Street and Broadway before the march began, and…
