Jeremy Brecher

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The Green New Deal From Below

For a 30% discount on all editions go to: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088278 and use Promo Code F24UIP when you order the book.

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice.

Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy.

A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change.

* Publication was supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.

Praise:

“Jeremy Brecher’s new book, The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy, is a timely and important contribution for organizers and anyone thinking about rebuilding the world from the bottom up.”–Z

“The Green New Deal, like every necessary transformation, is too important a project to be left to politicians. If we want a future where working-class Americans thrive and our planet is saved, we the people are going to have to show our leaders how to get the job done. Jeremy Brecher, the great historian and builder of working-class movements, understands this better than anyone. And with The Green New Deal from Below he provides the blueprint for another world that is, indeed, possible.”–John Nichols, national affairs correspondent, The Nation

“Massive social transformation emerges through the ingenuity and vision of ordinary people. Jeremy Brecher captures the beginnings of a sea change within communities, unions, cities, and states that champion climate protection, justice, and job creation through their own Green New Deals. These highly readable, inspiring, and hopeful chapters trace how change truly happens–from the bottom up.”–Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement

For a 30% discount on all editions go to: https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p088278 and use Promo Code F24UIP when you order the book.

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

  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Contest
  • The Movement-Based Opposition in Action
  • Social Self-Defense: From Protest to Movement-Based Opposition
  • Social Self-Defense vs. MAGA: A Strategic Assessment
  • Mass Action for Social Self-Defense
  • Social Self-Defense Has Begun
  • Strategic Guidelines for Social Self-Defense

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