Eric Dirnbach is a union researcher and labor activist in New York City. He has published in Jacobin, Labor Notes, New Labor Forum and Organizing Work.
“Rescinding KXL’s permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. We have to insist that it not stop there.”
Allowing them and their followers to distance themselves from what happened would be the kind of strategic blunder we too often see from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.