September 25, 2013 LNS’s Jeremy Brecher and AIDS policy expert Kevin Fisher maintain in a new commentary in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE that governments have ceased any serious individual or collective effort for climate protection. Yet there is no vehicle or venue to draw together scientists combatting climate change with representatives of the billions of… Read More »
A SECOND ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION?
August 26, 2013 The summer of 1988 was long and hot. One scorching day I casually said to a deliveryman, “Awfully hot.” He responded, “I talk with old-timers who can’t remember anything like it in 60, 70 years.” He continued, “It’s probably this ‘greenhouse effect.’ If you ask me, it’s a warning. All the… Read More »
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AS LAW ENFORCEMENT
August 15, 2013 Cross-posted with 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. Since then many more have been arrested around the country, often blocking the actual pathway along which the Keystone… Read More »
WHAT DOES 400 PPM MEAN FOR AMERICAN LABOR?
May 24, 2013 By Jeremy Brecher & Joe Uehlein In 1940, as Nazi armies marched across Europe, United Automobile Workers Union (UAW) president Walter Reuther made a stunning proposal: Retool the Depression-ravaged auto industry to build 500 planes a year for national defense. Many scoffed. But a huge wartime mobilization put tens of… Read More »
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