Jeremy Brecher

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BANDED TOGETHER

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

May 1, 2011   ONE COMMUNITY’S RESPONSE TO GLOBALIZATION AND DEINDUSTRIALIZATION Click here to download a free pdf copy of Banded Together. Providing incisive commentary on the historical and contemporary American working class experience, Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley documents a community’s efforts to rebuild and revitalize itself in the aftermath of… Read More »

Filed Under: Book, Brass Valley, Connecticut economy, Connecticut history, Featured, History

THE REAL AMISTAD STORY

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

October 14, 2010   Director Stephen Spielberg deserves credit for bringing to public attention what historians used to refer to dismissively as “the Amistad incident.”  It is the story of a group of Africans who were captured in Sierra Leone and brought in chains to the Americas — and who revolted, captured their ship, the… Read More »

Filed Under: Article, Connecticut history, History from below, Social Movements

NEW TACTICS FOR LABOR – PART II

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

November 14, 2008   In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in 1996. Many changes contributed to declining union membership. The traditional industrial, cultural, and demographic base of the labor movement in white ethnic urban industrial communities was eroded by suburbanization… Read More »

Filed Under: Article, Connecticut economy, Connecticut history, Labor, Labor history, Social Movements

CORNWALL IN PICTURES

Posted by Jeremy Brecher

January 5, 2001   A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941 The Cornwall Historical Society announces publication of Cornwall in Pictures—A Visual Reminiscence 1868-1941, with text by Jeremy Brecher, life-long Cornwall resident and Connecticut historian. Published by the Cornwall Historical Society, the book, with a hard-cover cloth binding and 224 pages, contains more than 400 images, mostly photographs… Read More »

Filed Under: Book, Connecticut economy, Connecticut history, History

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ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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Common Preservation

  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • Social Strike for Social Self-Defense: The Last Recourse Against Tyranny
  • Make the Fossil Fuel Powers Stranded Assets
  • How a Movement-Based Opposition Defeated the First Trump Coup
  • Movement-Based Opposition: A Successful American Example
  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
  • The Movement-Based Opposition in Action
  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition

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