{"id":29269,"date":"2023-10-21T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2023-10-21T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T19:40:36","slug":"unions-for-climate-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/unions-for-climate-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions for climate action!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Payton M. Wilkins: Unions for climate action!\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/payton_m_wilkins_unions_for_climate_action\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Payton M. Wilkins\u00a0| TED Countdown Summit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 July 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment \u2014 but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine&#8217;s paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice advocate Payton M. Wilkins thinks we can protect both workers and the planet with an age-old solution: unions. He digs into the economic fallout of ditching fossil fuels and shows why unions are well-positioned to push the transition to clean energy and &#8230;SHOW MORE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the speaker<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/payton_m_wilkins\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/payton_m_wilkins\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/payton_m_wilkins\">Payton M. Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/payton_m_wilkins\">Environmental justice advocate<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/payton_m_wilkins\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See speaker profile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Payton M. Wilkins is passionate about organizing for environmental justice in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payton M. Wilkins\u00a0| TED Countdown Summit \u2022 July 2023 In the long term, shutting down a coal mine means cleaner air and a healthier environment \u2014 but in the short term, it can devastate a community or family that relied on the mine&#8217;s paychecks to make ends meet. Environmental justice&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/10\/21\/unions-for-climate-action\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,1240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29270,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}