Jeremy Brecher

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Striking in the Coronavirus Depression

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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 »

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The Unemployed vs. the Coronavirus Depression

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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 »

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A Plan for Black Lives in the Coronavirus Emergency

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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 »

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Fighting the New Depression From Below

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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 »

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Black Lives and the Green New Deal

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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 »

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The Living Legacy of #BlackLivesMatter

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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 »

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Unions Fight to Protect All Essential Workers

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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 »

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The Virus Speaks

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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 »

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The Coronavirus Depression and the Emergency Green New Deal

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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 »

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Labor in the Climate Strikes

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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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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.

PROJECTS

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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