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.
A new wave of climate insurgents defines itself as law-enforcers
By Jeremy Brecher, Waging Nonviolence
One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse.
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?
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.
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.
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.