Power Shift 2011 is running a livestream here of their opening keynote session in DC featuring Al Gore and Van Jones at 7 pm.
Follow the action on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and the Power Shift blog.
Here’s a video about the conference:
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Union wants steel industry excluded from carbon tax
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Australia’s biggest manufacturing union, the Australian Workers Union (AWU), says it wants the steel industry to be excluded from a carbon tax.
Too bad the sound quality is so crappy. Nobody knows how to put a good microphone on the Vice President? I wanted to record his speech, but the best mic cut out half way through, mostly what I got was hall noise.
I hope they can recover the podium mics.
Alex
paulm, my great-uncle had run-ins with the AWU when he was a cane-cutter before WW1. They were, in his opinion, a union of ‘scabs’. Believe me, nothing has changed over the decades. Rightwing trade unions in Australia have the prime task of keeping workers quiescent, while the bosses run things. The AWU is just such a union. What makes this position interesting is that Paul Howes the AWU boss (and an absolute favourite of the Murdoch media, no doubt in part due to his zealous support for Israel, to the extent of being published in one of Murdoch’s even more down market rags demanding that Australians rejoice when Israel murdered a Hamas operative in Dubai, despite using stolen Australian passports, and the union movement in Australia being, supposedly, opposed to extra-judicial killing, as so many trade unionists are killed in this manner)was, not long ago, in favour of a carbon price and action on climate destabilisation. Now, suddenly, he’s changed his mind. Funny.