[p2p-research] a red & green coalition forms...

[Tomas Rawlings]

An interesting situation is developing here in the UK - where a broad 
coalition of often divergent views - the environmental view and the 
labour movement view - are coming together in the struggle over the UK's 
only factory making wind-turbines.  The threatened closure and loss of 
600 jobs comes just after the UK government published a climate 'plan' 
to radically increase the use of renewable energy.

Some sources of info:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/690722
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/23/vestas-wind-turbine-plant-closure
http://savevestas.wordpress.com/

I was at another event that brought together green protesters and labour 
union people into a big discussion, and yes there was disagreement - but 
a surprising amount of common ground.  The event was videoed and I'll 
post links to it when they appear online.

-- 
Tomas

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Tomas Rawlings
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