This Friday we will be speaking with Crystal Leaver with the United Steelworkers and the WA Blue GreenAlliance and Marc Krasnowsky is a former union Steelworker. Among the topics of discusion will be collaboration between the Steelworkers and the Sierra Club, HWy renewable energy is a priority for the Steelworkers, Key campaigns coming up in Washington in 2006, andhy the Steelworkers and other labor and environmental groups targeting Wal-Mart.
Crystal Leaver works with United Steelworkers and the WA Blue Green Alliance. Previously, she was the NW Field Organizer for EnviroCitizen, where she trained college students to win clean energy campaigns. She has also worked with Greenpeace USA, Dogwood Alliance, and SEAC. She is from the opposite end of the country, graduating from the University of Georgia, with a degree in Anthropology. In her other life, she enjoys modern dance, yoga, traveling, and all things crafty.
Marc Krasnowsky is a former union Steelworker, the son of a retired union Steelworker and one of the first members of the Seattle local of the Steelworkers' Associate Member Program. He is the local's delegate to the King County Labor Council. After more than 25 years as a mainstream newspaper reporter and editor, he now serves as communications director for NW Energy Coalition, a non-profit association of unions, environmental groups, consumer advocates, businesses and progressive utilities dedicated to advancing energy efficiency, renewable energy, consumer protection and the restoration of Columbia basin salmon and steelhead stocks. He serves on the executive committee of the Washington Blue-Green Alliance and represents the Coalition on the Apollo-Washington board.
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