by Jeremy Brecher, originally published on The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/10/jobs-environment-unions-green-new-deal, on 10 September 2019 Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs It is a classic narrative: jobs versus the environment. We have heard it over and over again: “Blue-collar union… Read More »
The Green New Climate Deal: What Is the Climate Movement’s State of Play?
A contribution to the GTI Forum The Climate Movement: What’s Next?, by Jeremy Brecher, originally published on https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/climate-movement-brecher, in June 2019 The climate movement in the US and around the world has gone through two main phases and is entering a third. The first, starting with the confirmation of man-made global warming, was a movement of… Read More »
Against Climate Paralysis
Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview with Jeremy Brecher for “The News That Didn’t Make the News” program on 94.1 KPFA, posted online at https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-18-2019/ Listen here
Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by In These Times (inthesetimes.com) in May 2019, http://inthesetimes.com/features/gree-new-deal-worker-transition-jobs-plan.html THE GREEN NEW DEAL presents the American working class with the greatest opportunity for improving our lives and gaining power since the original New Deal of the 1930s. Responding to climate change will require the creation of millions of jobs, from… Read More »
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