Work

Making a living, and a life.

Clean Energy Works: Portland Project a Model for Green Stimulus

by Roger Valdez

posted Oct 26, 2009

In Portland, Recovery Act funds are 'laying the foundation for long-term economic, environmental, and community health.'

Green the Block :: Beauty from the Ashes

by Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins and Rev. Lennox Yearwood

posted Sep 17, 2009

To honor the victims of September 11, 2001, urban communities involved in the green jobs movement spent the anniversary of the attacks building stronger communities through service.

Trade Your Job

by Valerie Saturen

posted Sep 09, 2009

The old apprenticeship model of learning by doing gets new life as people who’ve been left out of the job market train to meet the growing demand for green-collar workers.

No Vacation Nation

by John de Graaf

posted Sep 04, 2009

Along with paid vacation, we're missing out on happiness, better health, and a more sustainable society.

Signs of Life :: Sit-In Keeps Factory Open

by Laura Kaliebe

posted Aug 28, 2009

Workers at the Des Plaines, Illinois, Hartmarx factory voted to stage a sit-in this June against banking giant Wells Fargo.

Navajo Nation Council Votes For Green Jobs

posted Jul 31, 2009

The first green jobs bill from America's First Nations promises much needed, culturally appropriate jobs.

Cleveland’s Worker-Owned Boom

by Gar Alperovitz, Ted Howard, Steve Dubb

posted Jun 05, 2009

Rust-belt to recovery through worker-owned business and city, hospital, and university cooperation.

New Economy, New Ways to Work

posted Jun 05, 2009

Worker co-ops are enjoying a resurgence. And instead of flying off to distant shareholders, the profits go to the worker/owners who keep them circulating close to home.

Van Jones: Beyond the Politics of Confrontation

by Sarah van Gelder, Van Jones

posted Feb 13, 2009

Meet the man who’s convincing the country, and the new President, that the next economy needs to be green and just. Interview by Sarah van Gelder.

Commentary :: Worker-Owned Café Offers Local Food, Space to Talk

by Robert Jensen, Carlos Pérez de Alejo

posted Oct 31, 2008

Robert Jensen, Carlos Pérez de Alejo describe the thinking behind “Piqueteros” (a name drawn from the movement of un- and under-employed workers in Argentina), one of the few worker-owned-and-operated cafés operating in the United States.

Swift Raids

posted Jul 23, 2008

A Documentary by United Food and Commercial Workers about the raids in Swift Meatpacking plants.

Bonnie Raitt & Dolores Huerta

by Bonnie Raitt, Dolores Huerta

posted Jun 23, 2008

Bonnie Raitt and Dolores Huerta dicsuss Union Organizing, NAFTA, Human Rights, Environmentalism, Nuclear Energy, Feminism

YES! Picks :: Argentina, Turning Around

by Melissa Young, Mark Dworkin

posted Feb 04, 2008

From the producers of "Argentina: Hope in Hard Times" comes this intimate view of the new models of work, politics and community development that are now underway, as people re-invent their society to offer a better life for all.

Unions, Churches, & Schools

by Doug Pibel

posted Feb 01, 2008

Two new groups in the state of Washington are melding an awareness of the urgency of climate change with the organizing tools of the Industrial Areas Foundation to produce jobs that employ young people and can’t be moved overseas.

People We Love

posted Jul 29, 2007

People We Love: Kelydra Weckler, Reverend Todd Eklof, Lauren Jacobs, Corbin Harney