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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).

Green New Deal

Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below–Part 1

By Jeremy Brecher, Labor Network for Sustainability

While Washington struggles over job and climate programs, unions around the country are making their own climate-protecting, justice-promoting jobs programs.

  • June 10, 2022
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Time for a Climate Insurgency

By Jeremy Brecher, Great Transition Initiative

One way to overcome our thrust to mutual destruction could be to transform the global climate movement into a global climate insurgency.

  • August 23, 2021
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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
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