originally published June 2025 on HNET, Humanities and Social Sciences Online, accessible here: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=61733 Jeremy Brecher. The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy. University of Illinois Press, 2024. Illustrations, charts. 214 pp. $14.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-252-04745-9; $110.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-252-04618-6; $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-252-08827-8. Reviewed by Caleb Pennington (University… Read More »

originally published 01 November 2025 on Friends Journal, accessible here: https://www.friendsjournal.org/book/in-brief-the-green-new-deal-from-below-how-ordinary-people-are-building-a-just-and-climate-safe-economy/ In Brief: The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy Reviewed by Abigail E. Adams By Jeremy Brecher. University of Illinois Press, 2024. 224 pages. $21.95/paperback; $14.95/eBook. Buy from QuakerBooks This book, published during 2024’s election… Read More »

originally published 06 November 2025 on The Ecologist, accessible here: https://theecologist.org/2025/nov/06/green-deal-american-workers A green deal for American workers Neil Seldman Creative Commons 4.0 Senator Ed Markey, D-Mass, hosts a press conference calling for bold climate action in Congress and to blast Republicans for blocking real action on climate change. Members of the Sunrise Movement surround the… Read More »

by Jeremy Brecher, originally published 16 October 2025 on Labor Network for Sustainability’s Strike! Commentaries, accessible here: https://www.labor4sustainability.org/articles/laying-the-groundwork-for-social-strikes/   Listen to the audio version >> Mass “people power” uprisings, general strikes, and other forms of withdrawal of popular acquiescence in tyranny have established or restored democracy in many countries. As we saw in the previous… Read More »