April 21, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generating climate catastro- phe. An estimated forty thousand marched in London; thirty thousand in Melbourne; and twenty-five thousand in Paris. Some four hundred… Read More »
PIPELINE TO CLIMATE DISASTER: THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE AND LABOR
June 29, 2011 by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company proposes a project that it claims will spur the creation of 118,000 new… Read More »