Ted Franklin

Ted Franklin is an activist in Oakland, California. After joining Liberation News Service as a radical journalist for a four-year stint 50 years ago, he became a press operator, got fired for union organizing, co-founded Inkworks Press (a union printing and publishing collective), and worked as a union lawyer for 22 years. In recent years, he has organized with System Change Not Climate Change, Democratic Socialists of America’s Ecosocialist Working Group, and No Coal in Oakland, a grassroots group that has fought construction of a coal export terminal in Oakland for the past four years

One, Two, … Many Green New Deals: An Ecosocialist Roundtable

By Carol Dansereau, John Foran, Ted Franklin, Brad Hornick, Sandra Lindberg, Jennifer Scarlott, Resilience.org

Let us make of this precious opportunity the catalyst for a convergence of social movements, community initiatives, and new political vehicles in a mighty blow for the world we want, the world we deserve, and the world we will make!

February 26, 2019

Green New Deal — An Ecosocialist Study Guide

By Ted Franklin, System Change not Climate Change

I prepared this study guide for the Ecosocialist Reading Group of East Bay Democratic Socialists of America. These are some of the key readings for anyone who wants to understand the ecoleft's take on the Green New Deal.

February 11, 2019

The Green New Deal Goes Viral: What’s Next Is Up to Us

By Ted Franklin, System Change not Climate Change

Those of us who are hoping the Green New Deal will lead to profound social change can learn from the class struggle that swirled around the 1930s New Deal.

January 4, 2019

Ecosocialism’s Greatest Challenge: The Color-Line and the Twenty-First Century Ecoleft

By Ted Franklin, System Change not Climate Change

The Solidarity to Solutions Week of Actions that took place in San Francisco this past week exemplified these gains for the climate movement. They were not “feel good” exercises.

September 20, 2018