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Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment

Journal of World-Systems Research

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Title Blue-Green Coalitions: Constraints and Possibilities in the Post 9-11 Political Environment
 
Creator Gould, Kenneth A.
Lewis , Tammy L.
Roberts, J. Timmons
 
Description Workers and environmentalists in the United States have often found themselves on opposite sides of critical issues. Yet at the WTO meeting in Seattle in November 1999, they came together in a historic protest many see as a watershed in the formation of a new blue-green Seattle Coalition. However the two camps are again in con?ict over substantive issues, and in the changed political climate of post 9-11, the question arises of the coalitions durability. The paper ?rst brie? y reviews the history of labor-environment interactions in the United States. It then examines a series of problems and potential areas of promise for the movements: di?culties of coalition-building, expectations of reciprocation, local vs. national connections, and the question of di?ering class cultures and interests. Finally, three areas of potential research and action are suggested: new roles for the mainstream environmental groups, just transition alliances and climate justice alliances. We propose that the environmen-tal justice and environmental health wings of the green movement are more suited to making long-term coalitions with labor than are habitat-oriented green groups.
 
Publisher University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
 
Date 2004-02-26
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/314
10.5195/jwsr.2004.314
 
Source Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 10, Issue 1, 2004; 91-116
1076-156X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/314/326
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Kenneth A. Gould, Tammy L. Lewis , J. Timmons Roberts
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