by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/striking-in-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 02 September 2020 In response to COVID-19 and the COVID-19 Depression, workers have developed unique strategies and forms of organization to protect their lives and livelihoods. We saw in “Fighting the Great Depression — from Below” how in the early years of the Great… Read More »
Striking in the Coronavirus Depression
The Unemployed vs. the Coronavirus Depression
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-unemployed-vs-the-coronavirus-depression/, on 30 July 2020 The preceding commentary, “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below,” described the grassroots action by employed and unemployed workers in the early years of the Great Depression. This commentary and the subsequent ones tell how, in the face of the… Read More »
A Plan for Black Lives in the Coronavirus Emergency
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/a-plan-for-black-lives-in-the-coronavirus-emergency/, on 26 June 2020 The previous commentary, “Black Lives in the Green New Deal,” described how the uprising in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is developing toward a movement addressing the multifaceted oppression of Black people in… Read More »
Fighting the New Depression From Below
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/fighting-the-great-depression/, on 15 July 2020 The United States has entered the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This commentary describes the grassroots movements of the early years of the Great Depression in order to learn something about the dynamics of… Read More »
Black Lives and the Green New Deal
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/black-lives-and-the-green-new-deal/, on 11 June 2020 Black Lives Matter mural being painted on a street of Charlotte, North Carolina. Photo Credit: Office of Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Wikimedia Commons We are in the midst of the largest mass uprising in half a century. It is a… Read More »
The Living Legacy of #BlackLivesMatter
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-living-legacy-of-blacklivesmatter/, on 03 June 2020 In commemoration of George Floyd and in honor of all those fighting for racial justice against white supremacy, I devote this commentary to a history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. I hope it will provide inspiration and insight for the next… Read More »
Unions Fight to Protect All Essential Workers
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/unions-fight-to-protect-all-essential-workers/, on 18 May 2020 This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on Workers vs. Coronavirus. The first, “Strike for Your Life,” describes how in recent weeks workers in diverse industries and regions have initiated strikes to demand better protection against COVID-19 and how such… Read More »
The Virus Speaks
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-virus-speaks/, on 28 April 2020 Warning: I have gone viral and seized “Jeremy Brecher’s Corner.” My ancestors used to get around by rat. Rat trappers, like the ones above, worked in cities like Galveston, which was ravaged 100 years ago by one of my… Read More »
The Coronavirus Depression and the Emergency Green New Deal
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/the-coronavirus-depression-and-the-emergency-green-new-deal/, on 06 May 2020 This is the fourth in a series of commentaries proposing an Emergency Green New Deal. Mass unemployment, misery, and impoverishment require emergency response not only to the medical pandemic but to the economic catastrophe that is accompanying it. “The Coronavirus… Read More »
Labor in the Climate Strikes
by Jeremy Brecher, originally published by Labor Network for Sustainability, https://www.labor4sustainability.org/strike/labor-in-the-climate-strikes/, on 20 April 2020 When young people around the world began their Climate Strikes, organized workers began joining in, contributing to the September 20, 2019 tally of more than seven million participants worldwide. Many unions were poised to help make the 2020 Earth Week… Read More »
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