This panel will analyze the connections between climate change, environmental racism, and the role unionized workers can play in fighting to end this devastation and for a better world. From the movement against open petcoke piles in urban Southeast Chicago to the 2014 People’s Climate Change March in New York City to the strikes of oil workers nationwide this past spring, how can these be brought together to create a formidable force to stop big corporations and their drive to destroy the planet?