A Just Transition Campaign
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A Just Transition Campaign
Join us for our monthly SCNCC call thisMonday, February 9th @ 9pm EST / 6pm PST
for a reportback on the SCNCC Convention, held last weekend in Chicago.
Call details are below.
Our second convention assessed the political moment, the state of the environmental movement and our work in 2014, both on a local and bi-national level. The NYC Climate Convergence both made a name for us, but also showed the limits of what we can accomplish as a new group with modest resources. The emergence of Black Lives Matter shows the necessity of viewing the environmental movement as part of a larger dynamic of resistance to inequality, racism and oppression. As Naomi Klein reminds us, the climate justice movement can serve as a unifying framework to combine fights for liberation with the urgent need for jobs, politcal reform and drastic reductions in GHG emissions.
To that end, the SCNCC Convention voted to adopt an ongoing campaign for a just transition to focus our activities and project a near-term vision of how we can escape the climate and jobs crisis, countering working class divisions around race and competition for scarce jobs.
Modeled loosely on the UK Campaign against Climate Change and their call for one million climate jobs we hope to explore many aspects of a just transition in articles, conference calls, chapter meetings, campus teach-ins, union meetings and regional conferences. The campaign should also inform chapter's local activism. In the broader movement, we hope that the campaign could point a way forward with more depth to the questions of transition while also encapsulating common goals into a broadly recognized shorthand.
The campaign will last beyond 2015 and focus on these key areas:
Racism
- Fight environmental racism;
- Job creation must favor oppressed peoples and communities with high unemployment;
- Indigenous and immigrant rights must be protected and expanded;
- The creation of and training for 10 million unionized climate jobs (mostly public sector) which reduce emissions in some way (as opposed to "green jobs" which can mean almost anything);
- Workers losing jobs in fossil fuel related industries also have priority in transitioning to climate jobs;
- Remuniciplize or nationalize utilities and industries, placing them under democratic, community and/or workers control;
- Tax the rich, take funding away from the police and the military and put it toward climate jobs;
- $15/hr minimum wage;
- Eliminate the use of fossil fuels except for essential applications;
- Eliminate the use of nuclear energy;
- Create a 100% clean energy infrastructure by 2030;
- A sober transition plan must rely on recent climate and energy science to align our future way of life with the energy and resource limitations of the planet.
This is a brief outline. There is much to define and explain (we are still debating a name) which is why we need also SCNCC members and supporters to consider how they can contribute. We also hope to work with other groups and labor activists who share this vision, and support workers like those in Railroad Workers United, or striking refinery workers.
So join us on Monday's call to hear more about Convention and plug into SCNCC.
Upcoming
South by Southwest
The Texas Ecosocialist Conference
February 20-22University of North Texas, Denton
View conference website or register
Railroad Workers United
The Future of Railroads: Safety, Workers, Community, and Environment
Bay Area ConferenceMarch 14
Richmond, CA
Pacific Northwest Conference
March 21
Olympia, WA
Registration fee for each is $30. For the latest details visit the RWU website, http://railroadworkersunited.org/
State of Extraction Conference
March 27-29Vancouver, BC
http://stateofextraction.org/
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SCNCC call details for Monday, February 9
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Please join us for SCNCC's monthly organizing call this Monday, February 9nd @ 9pm EST/6pm PST.
Proposed agenda:
We will likely recap on the SCNCC Convention and present resolutions and next steps for the just transition campaign we agreed upon.
Agenda suggestions always welcome as well as announcements, like the upcoming Texas Ecosocialist Conference Feb. 20-22.
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