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Brecher: Freezing the Greenhouse: The Snowball Strategy
Commentary, January, 08 2010
Jeremy Brecher
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While world leaders play the blame game and politicians dither, deadly carbon emissions grow without restraint. The official US government "business as usual" projection is for a 39 percent increase in carbon emissions worldwide by 2030, roughly ...
Brecher: Doom and Gloom
Commentary, December, 21 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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As world leaders return from Copenhagen without an agreement that will protect the earth's atmosphere from devastating climate change, we ordinary people are forced to confront not only what we think, but also what we feel.
Smith: Will Climate Protection Legislation Protect Workers Too?
Znet Article, November, 24 2009
Brendan Smith
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One great fear is blocking public support for climate protection: The fear that protecting the planet will destroy millions of jobs.
Brecher: Ehren Watada: Free at Last
Znet Article, October, 28 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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On June 7, 2006, a 28-year-old Army lieutenant named Ehren Watada released a video press statement announcing that he was refusing to deploy to Iraq because the Iraq War was illegal and his "participation would make me party to war crimes." After ...
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 ...
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: AFL-CIO Convention: Solidarity with Van Jones?
Commentary, September, 13 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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The attack that drove “green jobs czar†Van Jones from the White House this week is an attack on labor and on workers’ best hope for good jobs. If labor wants to promote green jobs, labor should embrace Van Jones - publicly, loudly, and fas...
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: 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: The Trials of Ehren Watada
Znet Article, May, 21 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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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: How to Pay for a Global Climate Deal
Znet Article, March, 31 2009
Jeremy Brecher
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If leaders at the G-20 summit can create “paper gold†to jump-start the global economy, they can also turn it in a green direction to jump-start protection of the global climate.
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-...
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-...
Brecher: Will War Crimes Be Outed?
Znet Article, December, 17 2008
Jeremy Brecher
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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
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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 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: 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.
