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

[Michel Bauwens]

any report and summary for the p2p blog would be much appreciated!

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net>wrote:

> 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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