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Jeremy Brecher

Jeremy Brecher is an historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. A new edition of his most recent book, Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, is available for free download at his personal website. His previous books include: Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action; Strike!; Globalization from Below; and, co-edited with Brendan Smith and Jill Cutler, In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (Metropolitan/Holt).

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The Green New Deal Can Work – Here’s How

By Jeremy Brecher, Common Dreams

Like the original New Deal, the GND is trying to do something that has never been done before; we will have to learn from experience and experiment and correct the mistakes we will inevitably make along the way. But with these strategies we can make a start in the right direction.

  • February 26, 2019

How Labor and Climate United Can Trump Trump

By Jeremy Brecher, Common Dreams

Forging a force that can effectively counter Trumpism requires change that will involve tension within each movement as well as between them, but that may be necessary if either is to have a future.

  • February 14, 2017

Building people power before the Paris climate summit

By Jeremy Brecher, Waging Nonviolence

As we approach yet another climate summit this November in Paris, the question for the climate protection movement is not just, can some kind of agreement be reached, but how can we reverse the continuing climate catastrophe over the next quarter-century?

  • March 11, 2015

Discovering a Legal Tool to Curb Climate Change

By Jeremy Brecher, On The Commons

Corporations are created by state-issued charters. Where corporations are violating their duty to the public trust — governments have an obligation to stop them from doing so or to revoke their charters.

  • January 8, 2014

A Nonviolent Insurgency for Climate Protection?

By Jeremy Brecher, Foreign Policy In Focus

Those who are fighting to save the climate need a new strategy. One such strategy to consider is a global nonviolent law-enforcing insurgency, where citizens take it upon themselves to defend the climate directly and preserve the public trust for generations to come.

  • December 18, 2013

Civil disobedience as law enforcement

By Jeremy Brecher, Waging Nonviolence

Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.

  • August 16, 2013
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