Jeremy Brecher

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Reject the ‘jobs versus environment’ narrative – we can do both

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by Jeremy Brecher, originally published on The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/10/jobs-environment-unions-green-new-deal, on 10 September 2019 Union workers support Green New Deal policies because they know there doesn’t have to be a tradeoff between climate action and good jobs It is a classic narrative: jobs versus the environment. We have heard it over and over again: “Blue-collar union… Read More »

The Green New Climate Deal: What Is the Climate Movement’s State of Play?

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A contribution to the GTI Forum The Climate Movement: What’s Next?, by Jeremy Brecher, originally published on https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/climate-movement-brecher, in June 2019 The climate movement in the US and around the world has gone through two main phases and is entering a third. The first, starting with the confirmation of man-made global warming, was a movement of… Read More »

Against Climate Paralysis

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Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview with Jeremy Brecher for “The News That Didn’t Make the News” program on 94.1 KPFA, posted online at https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-june-18-2019/ Listen here

Making the Green New Deal Work for Workers

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by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by In These Times (inthesetimes.com) in May 2019, http://inthesetimes.com/features/gree-new-deal-worker-transition-jobs-plan.html THE GREEN NEW DEAL presents the  American working class with the greatest opportunity for improving our lives and gaining power since the original New Deal of the 1930s. Responding to climate change will require the creation of millions of jobs, from… Read More »

There’s Still Power in a Strike

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An interview with Jeremy Brecher by Jacobin Magazine (www.jacobinmag.com) on 24 April 2019, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/strike-jeremy-brecher-interview-teachers   If workers refuse to work, the bosses can’t produce anything. If soldiers refuse to fight, the generals can’t wage wars. That’s the power of a strike. Stop & Shop carts sit in an empty parking lot outside of one of… Read More »

The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States

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by Jeremy Brecher, published on Inequality.org 18 March 2019, https://inequality.org/research/the-green-new-deal-a-strategy-for-a-more-equal-united-states/   The Green New Deal often gets portrayed as simply a program for climate protection. But the Green New Deal — as proposed in a new congressional resolution from Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey — stands just as boldly as a strategy to… Read More »

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