Climate and environmental justice researcher and recovering academic
Silver Spring, MD
Joined July 2010
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Erik Kojola retweeted
🚨URGENT🚨: Greenpeace goes to trial against @EnergyTransfer’s ➡️$300 MILLION lawsuit⬅️ in 67 days!
Big Oil is trying to bankrupt the climate justice movement into silence. Sign our open letter to tell Energy Transfer: #WeWillNotBeSilenced
📢act.gp/open-letter
ALT Photo of an activist holding a megaphone with overlaid text saying "We will not be silenced. #ImWithGreenpeace"
Erik Kojola retweeted
.@Microsoft is working with #BigOil to use AI to accelerate fossil fuel extraction despite corporate sustainability claims. Yet employees have pushed for years to cut ties with fossil fuel companies and are now speaking out to hold Microsoft accountable!
grist.org/accountability/mic…
Erik Kojola retweeted
Youth activists are now telling us to lobby President Biden, to push him, again, to declare a climate emergency. And so we, educators, responded, write @AFTunion members @QaziLampert and David McDermott Hughe commondreams.org/opinion/bid…
Erik Kojola retweeted
The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition: defence worker views on decarbonisation, diversification and sustainability
Karen Bell, Vivian Price, Keith McLoughlin & Erik Kojola
Pages: 281-301
@hilda77 @Ekojo
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Erik Kojola retweeted
BREAKING: @UAW @RashidaTlaib join over 100 signatories in letters supporting PWU's bargaining demands @SierraClub. The letters, signed by elected officials, unions, and progressive orgs, call on @BenJealous to support a strong contract.
Read more here: pwunion.org/united-auto-work…
Erik Kojola retweeted
The @SierraClub is a strong partner in the fight for environmental justice and climate action. I support collaboration on a strong agreement with @PWUnion1 and with workers, who are dedicated to a livable future.
Huge win and show of unity and solidarity by GPUSA workers!
Greenpeace USA Workers Union is proud to announce that our members have UNANIMOUSLY ratified our FIRST UNION CONTRACT w/ @GreenpeaceUSA management! ✊🌏
We persevered through a lengthy bargaining process since we voted to form our union over 3 years ago‼️ #1u #unionstrong
Erik Kojola retweeted
Greenpeace USA Workers Union is proud to announce that our members have UNANIMOUSLY ratified our FIRST UNION CONTRACT w/ @GreenpeaceUSA management! ✊🌏
We persevered through a lengthy bargaining process since we voted to form our union over 3 years ago‼️ #1u #unionstrong
I just called my members of Congress and urged them to reject efforts to trade asylum for foreign aid. Join me to protect lives and defend the fundamental right to seek #asylum: wwdignity.org/NoTradeOffs #SaveAsylum
We're riding a wave of worker wins and it's time for the next one!
Today union baristas are striking over understaffing and unfair labor practices. Starbucks refuses to listen, so it's up to us to act.
Stand with @SBWorkersUnited's #RedCupRebellion!
bit.ly/redcuprebellion
Erik Kojola retweeted
THOUSANDS of Starbucks workers are on strike today. On top of our biggest strike yet,~500 actions at Starbucks stores are happening across the country in solidarity!
We need YOU to add your voice -- Click to call Starbucks and support striking baristas! bit.ly/SBWUzap
ALT A red coffee cup with SBWU's Red Cup Rebellion spills coffee. Along it are words that say "JOIN THE RED CUP REBELLION - OUR PHONE ZAP IS HAPPENING TODAY, NOVEMBER 16TH". A link to the phone zap is underneath - bit.ly/SBWUzap
Canvassing Chevy dealership to support @UAW autoworkers on strike! Worker need a record contract while corporate execs at the Big 3 rake in record profits. Worker justice is #ClimateJustice #standUpUAW
@greenpeaceusa
Erik Kojola retweeted
A 🧵of my words for @greenpeaceusa congratulating auto workers & @UAW union leaders on their historic and unprecedented just transition win at GM:
"The Big 3 said EV worker protections were “impossible” – now they are becoming reality"
greenpeace.org/usa/news/uaw-…
1/x #StandUpUAW
Erik Kojola retweeted
A big win for climate and another step closer towards a GND, made possible by union workers. LFG!!
BREAKING: @GM has agreed in writing to place their electric battery manufacturing under the UAW's National Master Agreement. #StandUpUAW
Solidarity with @UAW members fighting for a fair contract and just transition to EV! Labor justice is climate justice! #standUpUAW @greenpeaceusa @SierraClub
Auto workers @UAW deserve a fair contract & just transition to EVs. It’s⏰ Big 3 Auto CEOs met their demands! #StandupUAW ✊🌎
Erik Kojola retweeted
Join our climate movement Day of Action on Sat 10/7 in solidarity with @UAW! ✊🌎
Auto workers deserve a fair contract & just transition to EVs. It’s⏰ Big 3 Auto CEOs met their demands! #StandupUAW
RSVP to join a picket line or canvass a dealership 👇
mobilize.us/greenpeace/event…
This May, governments come together in Paris to recommence negotiations for a Global #PlasticsTreaty.
Tell @MonicaMedinaDC & @POTUS to step up to champion a strong & ambitious treaty that cuts plastic production & invests in reuse & refill systems! bit.ly/404C4OV
Erik Kojola retweeted
Texas union workers traveled 1200 miles and spent 18 hrs bringing this message to @Interior’s doorstep:
It’s time for @BOEM to commit to safe, union jobs & equity across the offshore wind supply chain. GreenpeaceUSA stands with @TXCJAction and workers. #TXUnionClimateJobsNow
Erik Kojola retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace activists have OCCUPIED a Shell platform en route to the North Sea. Here's why.
#MakeShellPay #StopDrillingStartPaying #Shell #FossilFuels #Oil&Gas #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis