Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement

The existential risk of climate change is about power. Human power. It will take real power to undertake a sufficient, just transition and the only source for that power is in the number of people we can organize to act collectively wherever we work, live and play.

The movements for worker power and climate justice are crucial allies in this cause. For too long, the corporate interests that stand opposed to a meaningful response to the climate crisis have pitted these movements against each other, as if the livelihoods of working families are at odds with our shared rights to a safe and healthy environment.

But recently this division has begun to heal. The book Power Lines collects the stories of some of these recent collaborative efforts of labor and environmental justice groups that have both exercised and foreshadowed the combined power of frontline workers and frontline communities.

Join co-editor and organizer Jeff Ordower and veterans of these recent fights for a discussion of the challenges and possibilities of a labor-climate justice alliance.

After the discussion, join us at the Café for happy hour to keep the conversation going. Enjoy $2 off drinks during happy hour from 7 – 8 pm.