By Jeremy Brecher Published on Labor Network for Sustainability (www.labor4sustainability.org) and on Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org) in January 2017. Introduction: These are times to try our souls Donald Trump and a powerful collection of anti-social forces have taken control of the U.S. government. They seek permanent domination in service of their individual and… Read More »
HOW CLIMATE PROTECTION HAS BECOME TODAY’S LABOR SOLIDARITY
May 15, 2015 By Jeremy Brecher Originally Printed in The Nation UNIONS-LED ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE HAS PROLIFERATED ACROSS THE COUNTRY Under banners proclaiming “Healthy Planet & Good Jobs,” thousands of trade unionists from 75 local and national unions, highly visible in their red, blue, green, and white union uniforms, joined the People’s Climate March… Read More »
PROTECTING THE FUTURE: A STRATEGIC PROPOSAL TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE
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 »
BUILDING PEOPLE POWER BEFORE THE PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT
March 5, 2015 by Jeremy Brecher Since international climate negotiations began a quarter of a century ago, annual greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 60 percent. As we approach yet another climate summit this November in Paris, the question for the climate protection movement is not just, can some kind of agreement be reached, but… Read More »
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