Organizing for Power has trained over 40,000 organizers since 2019. The passing of founder Jane McAlevey earlier this year was a heavy blow, but as co-founder Ethan Earle explains, her legacy will live on as the programme expands to meet new challenges. rosalux.de/en/news/id/528…

About once a week these days I think about how much it sucks that Jane (McAlevey) isn't with us to help figure out how to confront Trump 2.0

.U.S. Department of Energy's study on LNG exports confirms what we've known for years. LNG exports are bad for communities’ health, climate, and energy prices—and could cost US households over $100/year. Now, DOE must reject unnecessary and harmful LNG export applications before it’s too late.

🚨NEW: Senate Budget Committee releases a first-of-its kind public dataset that exposes the scale of the climate change-driven crisis in homeowners insurance. LIVE at 10 ET: Sheldon Whitehouse leads a hearing examining where the next dominoes are beginning to fall.

Founded by Jane McAlevey in 2019 with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Organizing for Power has trained over 40,000 organizers. In this new interview with coordinator Ethan Earle, he discusses the loss of its founder and how the programme is moving forward in 2025.rosalux.de/en/news/id/528…

"That is how the cascading failures begin: uninsurable property is unmortgageable, and unmortgageable property loses much of its value...As we saw in 2008, a crash in property values quickly becomes an economy-wide meltdown' news.bloomberglaw.com/insurance/los-…

Next month, Organizing for Power will kick off its Core Fundamentals training, the first since the passing of founder Jane McAlevey last year. Recently, we spoke with co-founder Ethan Earle about how the programme is moving forward after her loss.rosalux.de/en/news/id/528…

How does LA pay the $30 billion bill to recover from the fires? Former CA insurance commissioner Dave Jones argues officials should take a page from the tobacco playbook Sue the industry responsible - Oil and Gas - to pay for the damages nytimes.com/2025/01/22/opi…

Join The Nation, Jacobin, and CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies on Feb. 18 to celebrate the life of the great Jane McAlevey—Sr. Policy Fellow at Berkeley, Strikes Correspondent for The Nation, long-time political actor, commentator, and educator, campaign strategist, and union organizer.

"It’s time for big oil to take responsibility." California Democrats introduced a bill that may make fossil fuel companies liable for natural disasters. tinyurl.com/42nddycd

What a bunch of corrupt, fucking clowns.... The White House says Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his companies bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics

So we’re spending $883 billion on the military but Elon Musk & his teenage apparatchiks are focusing on USAID which has a budget of approximately $43 billion. Interesting choice.

kyivindependent.com/europe-must-ac… My new article for The Kyiv Independent is live! Europe’s window to ban Russian #LNG is closing fast. With Trump’s strategy looming, now is the time for bold action to cut off funding for Russia’s war machine. Click the link to learn more.

Because of climate change, insurers are leaving high-risk areas, creating mortgage deserts where homes are uninsurable—and unsellable. Residents need help, but the cost should fall on polluters through a carbon tax, not everyday people.

Massive financial crisis anyone? "S&P Global Ratings downgraded the credit rating of the LA water & power utility, citing “the increasing frequency and severity” of wildfires & signaling a potential awakening of the nation’s $4 trillion municipal bond market to climate risk."

My latest: Zelensky is being forced into an "extortionist" "neocolonial plundering" of Ukraine's riches, giving Trump & Putin unprecedented control of fossil fuels & minerals. Big Oil's big prize awaits: Russia's vast oil & gas fields. rollingstone.com/politics/polit… via Rolling Stone

Russia's war in Ukraine shows fossil fuel expansion is a security threat for us all. bit.ly/4hszB8C

Bogotá and Paris? The attendance record of CA’s #insurance commissioner questioned after a series of #internationaltrips at 5-star hotels. State is unable to identify the ‘business purpose’ for the most expensive #taxpayerfunded trips. abc7ne.ws/4c4bhci

Creepy, toddler-like billionaires who don’t give a shit about regular people duking it out in public is not a spectacle I thought I’d see or enjoy but here we are.

"The core of my politics is Jane McAlevey" -Graham Platner for Senate LETS GOOOOOO!!!