Jeremy Brecher

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Common Preservation

Posted by Jamie Cantoni

Starting in the early 1970s, I began autodidactic raiding parties into general systems theory, cybernetics, and genetic structuralism, what is now often called nonlinear or complexity theory, seeking to understand complex interactive processes and systems. This project was influenced by such thinkers as Norbert Weiner, Ludvig von Bertalanffy, and especially Jean Piaget.  Over the course… Read More »

  Human Survival Movement

Posted by Jamie Cantoni

Part 5 of Save the Humans? explored the possibility of a “human preservation movement” specifically targeted against the threats to human survival.[1]   By pursuing our own individual, group, and institutional self-preservation, we are creating the very dynamics that are threatening to destroy the world and its people. It is as if each of us,… Read More »

Climate Protection

Posted by Jamie Cantoni

I first became aware of the threat of global warming in the early 1970s from the writings of social ecologist Murray Bookchin.[1] In Common Sense for Hard Times, Tim Costello and I, citing Barry Commoner, warned that environmental degradation could destroy the capability of the environment to support a reasonably civilized human society.[2] In 1988… Read More »

  Climate and Labor

Posted by Jamie Cantoni

In Global Village or Global Pillage, Tim Costello and I warned that “Global warming, desertification, pollution, and resource exhaustion will make the earth uninhabitable long before every Chinese has a private car and every American a private boat or plane.”  We maintained that the solution lies in “converting the system of production and consumption to… Read More »

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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.

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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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