Blake Skylar at People’s World reports global warming, in itself, affects everyone but in a world where discrimination along lines of race and class is rampant, it falls hardest on those who are most oppressed, the poor, Working Class, and non-White people here at home and around the world.  Rather than solve the problem, fossil fuel interests would sooner put blinders on the eyes of those who bear the brunt of global warming’s effects and on everyone else.  But the National AFL-CIO is reminding the world that on the contrary, the eyes of the Working Class, the poor and minorities are wide open - and they are fighting back.  National AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Fred Redmond, the highest-ranking African-American Leader in the labor movement, says: “Thinking about movements coming together in the same room today made me think of Dr. King and what he said.  During his days, a term like environmental justice didn’t really exist, but he understood how interconnected these challenges were.  Structural racism, economic injustice and under-investment in Black and Brown Communities.  He told us in 1967 that the cities were gasping in polluted air and enduring contaminated water.  What’s equally important is that he knew the solution, how important it was to stand together in solidarity.  Organized Labor can be one of the most powerful interests to do away with this evil that confronts our Nation that we refer to as discrimination.”

To Read This Labor News Story In Its Entirety, Go To: AFL-CIO: The fights for climate justice and racial justice are intertwined – People's World (peoplesworld.org)