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Brecher: World Leaders Fiddle While the World Burns: Time for a New Climate Strategy
Znet Article, October, 05 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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Obama’s climate czar Carol Browner said last week there will be no U.S. climate protection legislation before the Copenhagen conference and that she doesn’t know if a global agreement on binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions can be made in ...
Smith: Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups
Znet Article, October, 02 2009
Brendan Smith
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Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies. It's time for labor unions to f...
Brecher: Lessons from Hard Times Past
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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We’re all struggling with how to think -- and what to do -- in the face of the “great recession.†An initial progressive response was to advocate better regulation; then Keynesian economic stimulus; now nationalization; perhaps in the future...
Brecher: Global Labor’s Forgotten Plan to Fight the Great Depression
Znet Article, March, 18 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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In the early 1930s, as global unemployment tripled in two years and the world plunged into the Great Depression, the world’s labor movements developed a program for fighting the global crisis through international public works. It’s a little-...
Costello: WSF: Is Another World Possible?
Znet Article, February, 14 2009
Tim Costello
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The recently concluded World Social Forum is a good gauge for assessing the state of the world's alternative social, economic and political movements.
Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.
Costello: How the American Healthcare System Got That Way
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Tim Costello
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As Americans respond to President-elect Obama call for town hall meetings on reform the American health care system, an understanding of how that system came to be the way it is can be crucial for figuring out how to fix it.
Brecher: The Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The superlatives of the global economic meltdown of 2008 are, well, superlative. Professor Noriel Roubini of New York University says the current crisis is "the largest leveraged asset bubble and credit bubble in history." The International Monet...
Brecher: The G-20 vs. The G-6 Billion
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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The message from last weekend's G-20 summit meeting on the global economy must be a parody of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: The game can't go on. The game must go on.
Brecher: Labor Goes to Bali
Znet Article, April, 24 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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This week trade unionists from around the world will travel to Bali for the December 3rd launch of negotiations for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol limiting greenhouse gasses. It will include delegates from such U.S unions as the Electrical Wor...
Brecher: How Green Is Your Collar?
Znet Article, March, 28 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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As cities and states from New York to California to Minnesota race to invent policies to address global warming, new mandates for investment in green energy will produce many billions of investment dollars...
Smith: Globalization from Below
Book, October, 12 2007
When tens of thousands of protestors brought the World Trade Organization in Seattle to a halt in November 1999...
Brecher: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
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The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Costello: Raids, Reforms, and the Labor Movement
Znet Article, January, 10 2007
Tim Costello
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The December immigration raids at Swift & Co, and increased enforcement activity elsewhere, are a body blow against labor's attempt to organize low wage workers. ...
