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Résumé

Jeremy Brecher

36 Yelping Hill Road
West Cornwall, Conn. 06796
860/672-6092

jbrecher@igc.org

 

Employment

1989-2001

  • Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, Connecticut Public Television and
  • Radio, a position supported by the Connecticut Humanities Council
  • Writer, Connecticut Public Television documentaries African Americans in Connecticut, The Roots of Roe, Schools in Black and White, Rust Valley, and Brass City Music, etc.
  • Consultant for Connecticut Public Television documentaries The Suburbs, Colt’s Empire, Puerto Rican Passages, As We Tell Our Stories, Between Boston and New York, and General Assembly, etc.
  • Writer, independent video documentaries Global Village or Global Pillage?, The Amistad Revolt, Dance on the Wind, and Electronic Road Film
  • Producer, writer, and host for more than 80 programs in the Connecticut Public Radio series Remembering Connecticut
  • Writer for exhibit traveling with the Freedom Schooner Amistad
  • Presenter, New Hampshire Humanities Council “Calling Ourselves Home” project
  • Consultant, Waterbury Traditional Music Festival
  • Consultant, “As We Tell Our Stories,” permanent exhibit, American Indian Archeological Institute
  • Consultant, “Garment Workers of New Haven” history project, Greater New Haven Labor History Association
  • Activist-in-Residence, The Havens Center, University of Wisconsin
  • Presenter, “Brass Valley Explorations,” Mattatuck Museum teacher institute
  • Advisory Council, Advocacy Institute Fellowship Program

 

1988

  • Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, Yale University
  • Co-Producer, Connecticut Public Television documentary “Brass City Music”
  • Consultant, “The History of the Connecticut Legislature,” movie and exhibit prepared by the Connecticut Humanities Council
  • Consultant, “Exploring Connecticut:  Life, Lore and Art in the Nutmeg State” program of the Connecticut State Department on Aging
  • Regular feature on American Labor for Z Magazine

 

1987

  • Fulbright Research Scholar, University of Duneden,  New Zealand

 

1986

  • Director, Connecticut Humanities Council funded project “The Folk Music of Waterbury, Connecticut:
    Ethnic Heritage and their Transformations”
  • Writer and co-producer, 13-part Brass City Music radio series, broadcast on Connecticut Public Radio
  • Initiator, National Endowment for the Arts-funded Waterbury Traditional Music Festival
  • 1982-1985 Principal Investigator, National Endowment or the Humanities funded project “The Labor History of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1920-1980”
  • Historian/Writer, Connecticut Public Radio series “Elements of Connecticut’s History”
  • Historian/Writer, “Brass Roots,” permanent historical exhibit at Mattatuck Museum
  • Consultant, “An Oral History of Clockmaking in Central Connecticut,” Thomaston Public Library
  • Consultant, “Industrial Exhibit Project,” Connecticut State Library/State Museum

 

1980-83

  • Historical Coordinator, National Endowment for the Humanities funded
  • Brass Workers History Project
  • Co-Producer, feature documentary Brass Valley
  • Consultant, “The Connecticut Worker and a Half Century of Technological Change,” University of Connecticut, Department of History
  • Consultant, Connecticut Labor History Project, Connecticut State Labor Council, AFL-CIO

 

1980

  • Consultant, “Waterbury Industrial History Project,” Mattatuck Museum “Oral History Techniques” course, co-sponsored by Fairfield University, University of Bridgeport, and the Bridgeport Public Library

 

1977-9

  • Institute for Labor Education and Research, New York

 

1977-8

  • Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, Trumbull College, Yale University

 

1976-7

  • Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Fellow, Ezra Stiles College, Yale University

 

1970-6

  • Free-lance writer

1969-70

  • Associate Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, D.C.

1968

  • Urban staff, Council of Churches of Greater Washington, D.C.

 

1966-7

  • Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D.C.

1966

  • Staff Assistant, Rep. Robert Kastenmeier

1965

  • Staff, National Conference for New Politics; Editor, Inter/Change

1963-70

  • Free-lance research and writing for Sen. George McGovern, Rep. William Fitts Ryan,
    I.F. Stone, Robert Yoakum, Andrew Kopkind, etc.

Education

 

1963-5                Reed College, Portland, Oregon

1965-8                Institute for Policy Studies, Washington D.C.

1972-3               Cambridge-Goddard Graduate School, Cambridge Mass.

1973-5               Union Graduate School, Yellow Springs, Ohio

1975                   Received Ph.D., Union Graduate School

1995                   Screenplay writing course with Terry Southern

 

 

Awards

  • Connecticut Humanities Council 2000 Wilber Cross Humanities Scholar of the Year Award
  • Two Emmy Awards
  • Edgar Dale Screenwriting Award

ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

PROJECTS

Common Preservation

  Human Survival Movement

Climate Protection

  Climate and Labor

  Climate Insurgency

  Against Doom

  Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs

Labor History

  Strike!

  Common Sense for Hard Times

STRIKE! Commentaries on Solidarity and Survival

  • The Biden Climate Plan: Part 2: An Arena of Struggle
  • The Biden Climate Plan: Part 1: What It Proposes
  • People Power in the Coronavirus Depression
  • How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup
  • Social Self-Defense Against the Impending Trump Coup
  • Workers vs. the Coronavirus Depression
  • Striking in the Coronavirus Depression

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