Blackface Is as Racist Today as It Was When It First Started nucleus 27 for energy extraction. The Southwest is already experiencing some of the mostdire impacts of climate changewithmassive heat wavesmegadroughtsandrapidly diminishing water sources nucleus 27 The AFL-CIO already offers a robust number of apprenticeship programs in manufacturing, building, and construction trades, and represents over 12 million workers in 55 national and international labor unions. That’s a lot of people power, and a lot of opportunities to act. As a member of an AFL-CIO affiliate, the Writers Guild of America, East, I would be thrilled to see my union dues help fund an expansion and retooling of programs aimed at preparing fellow workers in the oil, gas, and coal industries for new employment in the renewable energy sector (or other sectors — there’s a dire shortage of home health care workers, for example). nucleus 27 The framework is there, should we choose to use it. By funneling resources to local union affiliates in coal- and oil-producing areas like Appalachia, Texas, North Dakota, Alaska, and New Mexico, and engaging with frontline communities, the AFL-CIO could get ahead of whatever’s coming next — whether that’s the passage of the Green New Deal, or, perhaps more likely, the continuing death of the coal industry. The union leaders were right to worry about the future, but their vision is too clouded by oil to see the burning forest. nucleus 27
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