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UCC Synod Approves Fossil Fuel Divestment

Tiffany Vail United Church of Christ
"This resolution becomes a model for all faith communities who care about God’s creation and recognize the urgent scientific mandate to keep at least 80% of the known oil, gas and coal reserves in the ground." Jim Antal, Minister and President, MACUCC

At Last, Hyatt Workers Win Deal—With Room to Grow

Jenny Brown Labor Notes
If union members at Hyatt hotels in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Chicago vote yes on a proposed contact it will end a four-year campaign. It will also make it easier to organize in new cities.

'Restore the Fourth' July 4th Anti-NSA Spying Protests

Russia Today
‘Restore the Fourth’ is aimed at restoring the fundamentals of the Fourth Amendment – the part of the Bill of Rights which protects citizens against unlawful searches and seizures. Participants will display an online banner which reads, “This 4th of July, we stand by the 4th Amendment and against the U.S. government’s surveillance of internet users.”

'Obamacare' Bends for Big Business... Again

Sarah Lazare Common Dreams
Critics blast Obama's decision to delay mandated employer health insurance in Affordable Care Act that was already a concession to private industry.

Mohamed Morsi Ousted in Egypt's Second Revolution in Two Years

Patrick Kingsley and Martin Chulov The Guardian
The chief of the armed forces, General Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, announced that he had suspended the constitution and would nominate the head of the constitutional court, Adli Mansour, as interim president on Thursday. While secular Egyptians blame Morsi for autocratic policies that have failed to build consensus, Islamists are furious that Egypt's first democratically elected president should have been deposed after just a year in office.

Koch Pledge Tied to Congressional Climate Inaction

Jane Mayer The New Yorker
Climate-change policy directly affects Koch Industries’s bottom line. Koch Industries, according to Environmental Protection Agency statistics cited in the study, is a major source of carbon-dioxide emissions, the kind of pollution that most scientists believe causes global warming.

Supreme Court Scrutiny of `Neutrality' Pacts Could Be Another Blow to Unions

Bruce Vail In These Times
The U.S. Supreme Court announced last week that it will accept a case for review next year on the use of labor-management "neutrality" agreements in union organizing campaigns. An anti-union decision from the high court would make labor organizing more difficult and threaten labor organizations at a national level, labor experts say.

Egypt: That a Revolution, as Yet Undefeated, May Succeed

Wael Gamal Jadaliyya
The swelling popular momentum and its contingencies have evidenced that the revolution will continue its program of abolishing the existing system, a program that many have courted for now nearly two and a half years.