Jeremy Brecher

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War and Peace

War and preparation for war has been a constant feature of the world in which I have lived. Over the course of half a century, I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, peace in Vietnam, accountability for war crimes, and many others.

 

In the early 1960s I barnstormed with an American Friends Service Committee “peace caravan” and was active in SANE, the Student Peace Union, and the Peace Research and Action Project of Students for a Democratic Society. I helped staff Vietnam Summer and participated in the Committee to End the War in Vietnam (later National Mobilization Committee, then the New Mobe). In the late 1970s I helped found Commonwork Pamphlets, which published my writings opposing reinstitution of the military draft and the U.S. war in Central America. I was arrested for occupying the office of Rep. Nancy Johnson in a protest against the mining of Nicaragua harbors.

 

At the outset of the Iraq war I participated in a global campaign for a “Uniting for Peace” resolution in the UN General Assembly to forestall the imminent US attack. In the 2000s I helped organize the Iraq Pledge of Resistance, the Iraq Moratorium, and War Crimes Watch, and with Jill Cutler and Brendan Smith edited the collection In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond.[1]

[1] Jeremy Brecher, Jill Cutler, and Brendan Smith, eds., In the Name of Democracy: American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005).

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

  • Protecting Workers and Communities–From Below | Part 1: On the Ground
  • New Foundations for the House of Labor?
  • Commentary: The Green New Deal – The Current State of Play
  • Commentary: The Green New Deal in the States – Part 2
  • Commentary: The Green New Deal in the States – Part 1
  • If the Courts Won’t Protect the Climate the People Must
  • The Inflation Reduction Act and the Labor-Climate Movement

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