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Smith: 5 Reasons The Keystone Pipeline Is Bad For The Economy
Znet Article, February, 25 2013
Brendan Smith
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The American labor movement is once again facing a most controversial issue — the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline
Brecher: Dirty vs. Green Jobs: Labor's Keystone Dilemma
Znet Article, March, 14 2012
Jeremy Brecher
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It's time for labor and environmentalists to sit down and hammer out plan for putting union members to work rebuilding our country and protecting the planet
Brecher: Keystone XL Opponents Need A Jobs Program
Znet Article, February, 06 2012
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
If we fail to become the voice for both the planet and workers, our movement risks losing the support of increasing numbers of workers, unions, and their political allies
Brecher: Labor and Environment: New Steps for Dialogue
Znet Article, January, 20 2012
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor?
Smith: The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change
Znet Article, November, 27 2011
Brendan Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
What if the question is not how to save the oceans, but how the oceans can save us?
Smith: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?
Znet Article, September, 22 2011
Brendan Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
The Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy — under legislation signed by George W. Bush
Brecher: Are Progressives in Denial About Climate Change?
Znet Article, June, 14 2011
Jeremy Brecher
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At this very moment, the effects of climate change are all around us
Smith: The Rise of the New Power Co-Op Movement
Znet Article, October, 03 2010
Brendan Smith
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Breakdown at Copenhagen. Climate legislation stalled. EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses threatened. Is climate protection dead?
Brecher: Lessons from Hard Times Past
Znet Article, July, 22 2009
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
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: The Trials of Ehren Watada
Znet Article, May, 21 2009
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
As Americans are inundated with revelations about the lies, torture and other crimes that accompanied the US-led war in Iraq, many who resisted continue to be punished for refusing to participate in those crimes. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first ...
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.
Brecher: Will War Crimes Be Outed?
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that they will be held accountable for war crimes com...
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
Brecher's ZSpace page
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: Labor Confronts Global Warming
Znet Article, April, 14 2007
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
The reality of global warming and its catastrophic consequences are today beyond debate. But American labor is caught in an intern...
Brecher: "Unite for Peace" in Lebanon?
Znet Article, July, 26 2006
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
Israel, the U.S., and the yet-again submissive Britain are now totally isolated in their collusive attack on Lebanon.
