Just Transitions Summit to Feature Strike Author Jeremy Brecher & Workshops on Labor & the Clean Energy Economy
The Charles A. Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education has released details about the “Just Transitions Summit: How Can We Fight the Climate Crisis and Achieve Economic and Social Justice” coming up on April 3-5 at the University of Southern Maine - Portland. Discussions and workshops will explore the meaning of a "just transition,” which seeks to ensure workers' livelihoods and communities are supported in the transition to a clean energy economy. Keynote Speakers will include:
- Jeremy Brecher, author of Strike!, Green New Deal from Below, and more (via Zoom)
- Todd Vachon, Director of LEARN-Rutgers, author of Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice
- Dr. Vivian Price, filmmaker (via Zoom)
- Alisha Kang, President of the Union of National Employees-Canada
- Rick Levy, President of the Texas AFL-CIO
- Camilo Viveiros, Senior Labor Educator, UMass Dartmouth
- Phil Coupe, Co-Founder of ReVision Energy
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Some of the planned sessions include:
- Municipalism at the Intersections of Labor, Energy, and Climate Justice
- Ensuring High Quality Job Creation in the Buildout of Clean Energy Infrastructure
- The Strategic Role of Co-operatives in a Just Transition
- Leveraging Federal Funds to Build Worker and Community Power
- Climate Justice: Power & Privilege
- The Arts as A Tool to Achieving Climate Justice and Social Justice
- Putting the Community Back in Community Solar: A case study on consumer-owned energy development
Unions and Organizations to be featured include Jobs with Justice, Cornell Climate Jobs Institute, Maine AFL-CIO, IBEW 567, UAW Region 9A, Maine Community Power Cooperative, Portland Longshoremen Local 861 (ILA) and the University of Maine Graduate Workers Union-UAW.