I got the train up the Sefton coast last night to watch this film in Southport's Friends Meeting House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3uvzcY2Xug
It was shown by the local Transition Town group, a grassroots idea that I support but that, like most environmentalism in this country, tends to be strongest in the leafier parts of cities and in suburban towns.
As a trade unionist facing squarely up both the crisis of capitalism and climate catostrophe, it seems obvious we need to be thinking about transition workplace communities too. The workplace is where most pollution takes place and most energy is consumed, not even counting transport to/from work.
The TUC have put this document out www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-9996-f0.pdf , and anyone in a unionised workplace can take up its suggestions. TUC affiliates though continue to support nuclear power, coal fired stations, the third runway at Heathrow....
However Visteon factory workers in occupation have also raised the possibility of converting parts of the car industry to socially and envioronmentally useful production, see http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=3867 Thats both an idea ,and a struggle, we should give our full support to
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