I could not be more proud of the fighting for recognition. In response, Duke has challenged the right of grad workers everywhere to unionize. I’m pledging #NoDollars4Duke until they abandon this embarrassing and transparent delay tactic. #LetUsVote
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Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants.
This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.
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A short vid that assembles some significant moments from the Volatile Trajectories podcast, now available on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Podcasts: youtu.be/IABn7Xuulvc
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I've posted about this before but here's my most recent contribution to the discourse
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Hard to overstate this book's impact, both in generating excellent scholarship and in producing some very, very unfortunate misconceptions re: how the oil industry functions.
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My wide-ranging conversation on climate change and energy transition with , Allan Stoekl, and is now live on "Volatile Trajectories." Thanks for producing! youtu.be/NGLBn_1AdN8
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Was delighted to see 's Climate Issue selected as a special notable issue by Best American Essays 2022. It's an excellent issue and I'm grateful to the editors for including my work.
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At 5am this morning, striking Academic Workers formed a picket line at a construction site at UC Berkeley and successfully shut it down by talking to the workers from OE, IBEW, and LiUNA. They are honoring our picket line and won't be building today. #Solidarity #UAWonStrike
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I stand in strong solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers at the University of California who are on strike for higher wages, better child care benefits, and expanded paid leave.
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Today, everyone knows who's got the power.
Now it's time for @UofCalifornia to settle fair contracts with all 48,000 workers who make this University run.
@UAWonStrike #FairUCnow
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From Vandy to the entire UC system (not to mention Yale, BU, MIT, UChicago, Northwestern, and so many other institutions), grad workers are organizing and getting the goods!
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From our current and former GSC prezs:
"How would you like to make $40,000 a year? In September, our peers at Duke University received news that their minimum stipends would be raised by 11.4% to approximately $39,000."
How did they do it? Organizing!
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BREAKING: 48,000 academic workers at the University of California have begun the largest higher education strike in U.S. history. The UC workers, represented by , are picketing at all 10 UC campuses this morning.
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In anticipation our the #ICFP2022, we are pleased to share the latest episode of the SRHM Podcast on #reproductive power and aligning actions with values in global #familyplanning with Sara Gullo, & Feven Mekuria.
Listen here:
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This interview with is great -- an eloquent reminder of the enduring value of critique. I especially appreciate his thoughts on left moralism
I see Huber’s defense of labor as an agent of climate justice as a needed rebuke to the view that labor is too committed to industrial growth to lead. But I also think Huber understates the compatibility of a working-class climate politics and one emerging from 'frontlines.'
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I reviewed 's Climate Change as Class War for 50th anniversary issue. Strategy qs aside, I see Huber arguing for a renewed Marxist universalism: the workers' struggle is the species' struggle because capital is a universalizing force.
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In light of Bret Stephens's conversion from climate skeptic to believer, it's worth pointing out that climate denial has always been a tactical not a sincerely held position for the right.
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We can call it now. Lula has been elected, and Jair Bolsonaro is the first president in Brazilian history to lose a re-election campaign
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Duke grads: check your emails for this week's newsletter! GPSG has announced its resolution calling on Duke to refrain from intimidation, retaliation, and harassment like they have done in the past. Read the full text here: gpsg.duke.edu/files/2022/10/
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Finally!
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The ruling is in! Duke’s final appeal to overturn our election has been denied, and it’s now official — Duke Press is unionized! Next stop: bargaining! 
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the major utility in louisiana just told residents to expect power being out for over a month after a hurricane as the new normal in case you’re wondering how our society and infrastructure are failing us on climate change
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In our summer issue, writes that “a more humane form” of adaptation in the face of climate change is possible, “but only if ordinary people have the material power to decide what it looks like.”
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Beating the drum about the reality of climate change will not be enough to change course. We need a labor-based climate movement that targets fossil fuel capital, fights for large-scale, democratically controlled energy, and improves workers' lives.
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I reviewed two very good books on climate adaptation for . As routine disaster puts adaptation at the center of global climate policy, and ask who adaptation actually serves and what 'just adaptation' might look like dissentmagazine.org/article/flood-
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Our Summer 2022 issue, FOREIGN POLICY, is out today.
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Reminder that SCOTUS gave EPA the legal power to regulate GHG in 2007. Obama entered in 2009 w/ full power to install a dramatic carbon regulatory regime. Instead, he prioritized 'bipartisanship'; pushing a right wing 'cap & trade' legislation that failed
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NEW: The transition to solar power is being fueled by temp workers who chase projects from state to state, living in tents & motels for years
I spoke to solar workers about brutal conditions & how they couldn't be further from the Green New Deal's vision
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Very excited for the upcoming issue of . Lots of good stuff including some thoughts from me on climate adaptation, primitive accumulation, and socialist climate politics
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Our Summer 2022 issue, FOREIGN POLICY, comes out July 5.
For a limited time only, new subscriptions are 20% off.
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"A new Ark will have to be constructed out of the materials that a desperate humanity finds at hand in insurgent communities, pirate technologies, bootlegged media, rebel science and forgotten utopias"
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Hearing that Mike Davis might not be with us much longer, I went digging for this quote. I love "I've seen social miracles in my life." Evergreen
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News this morning: just signed HB-160 into law, giving renters more protections after a federally declared disaster.
Catch up on my deep dive on the bill with for + :
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"To economists, this sudden inversion of power constitutes a “disorder” in the social relations of production, as rising nominal wages intensify inflationary pressures.” Excellent this by Clara Mattei in
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The Left march continues across Latin America. It looks assured that and have won the presidential elections today in Colombia, where the Left has faced almost century of political
exclusion. Incredible, historic, and inspiring outcome!
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Highly recommend this essay from . I'm always looking for social theory that tells a good story and this is definitely that. I'm excited to read the book.
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eBay is the key to understanding the modern internet.
An excerpt from my book in today's @gdnlongread theguardian.com/technology/202
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Barbara Epstein's Left critique of political correctness still brutally on point 30 years later... inthesetimes.com/article/wokene
This is capital's vision of energy transition: the slow-motion privatization of public power
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New report commissioned by Sierra Club shows that - you'll never guess! - TVA's generation fleet should be slowly privatized in the form of contracted, for-profit renewables and hey why not contract with developers in neighboring restructured markets too! drive.google.com/file/d/1rgB3Ap
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Finally got around to reading this excellent article on "managed retreat" in south Louisiana. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in the politics of climate adaptation
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New article! In it I describe what happened when a Tribal-driven community resettlement--conceptualized as part of a longer struggle for cultural survival, land, and justice--was hijacked by racial capitalist regional redevelopment.
Some big picture takeaways: twitter.com/journalofpolit…
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