by Gabriel Carlyle, published July 2018 on Peace News, https://peacenews.info/node/9066/jeremy-brecher-against-doom-climate-insurgency-manual PM Press, 2017; 128pp; $12.95 According to longtime activist and author Jeremy Brecher, ‘we are witnessing the birth of a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency’ to prevent catastrophic climate change. In this short and timely book he attempts to explain how and why this insurgency… Read More »
A Climate Constitution in the Courts and the Streets
by, Jeremy Brecher, originally published 06 June, 2018 on Common Dreams, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/06/climate-constitution-courts-and-streets A stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society, “without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.” “While judges very often resist such necessity claims, since the 1970s hundreds of people who have committed civil disobedience in service of the… Read More »
A Call to Root Labor Action on Climate Change: A Review of Climate Solidarity
By Andy Feeney, originally published 3 September 2017 on The Washington Socialist, https://mdcdsa.org/the-washington-socialist/a-call-to-root-labor-action-on-climate-change-in-a-revolutionary-struggle-against-alienation/ Book Review of Jeremy Brecher’s Climate Solidarity: Workers vs. Warming, published online by the Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS), (Takoma Park, Md., 2017), 83 pp.; download is free. For decades, organized labor in the United States has been divided, at best, on the subject of… Read More »
THE EPA’s CLEAN POWER PLAN: HOW UNIONS AND ALLIES CAN PROTECT AFFECTED WORKERS
August 7, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just issued the final text of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), a regulation whose purpose is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) that climate scientists say are causing global warming. EPA and independent studies indicate that the CPP will create far more… Read More »
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