Stephanie McMillan

I want to thank everyone who offered to contribute to Code Green, and who helped promote my fundraising campaign, and who sent notes of encouragement. I appreciate your efforts very much!! I’m very moved by your level of support and by your very kind words.

The campaign did not succeed, so I won’t be drawing that particular cartoon any longer. And I’m going to begin seeking some other kind of way to make a living than being a cartoonist. However, I will continue to draw and write cartoons and other things as a complement to organizing, as my contribution to the social change that we so urgently need. Plus Minimum Security continues to run at gocomics.com.

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The capitalist system sets up a false jobs vs. environment conflict, that serves the system on both sides. If people’s land wasn’t stolen and destroyed, they wouldn’t be able to be forced into a position of dependency and into the labor force in the first place.

Here’s an interesting article by a labor leader about why he opposes the Tar Sands pipeline. Though he’s very much part of the establishment unions, he seems to be honestly grappling with the false conflict between labor and the environment that has been set up by the ruling class.

I don’t see things the same way he does (like his advocacy of “green jobs” within a continued framework of capitalism, or participating in a protest of orchestrated arrests that appeals to Obama), but he makes some good points and, I think, eloquently expresses the real anguish of the worker trapped in a bind — of balancing the immediate need to feed one’s family while realizing that the only options we’re offered for doing so are destroying their future.

http://www.truth-out.org/why-im-marching-bill-mckibben-protest-keystone-pipeline/1314112061

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