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Znet Article Brecher: What does 400 PPM Mean for American Labor?

Znet Article, May, 24 2013 Jeremy Brecher
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Climate change impacts will affect unions and workers in every sector of the economy

Znet Article Brecher: Why Labor Should Back Gina McCarthy for EPA Administrator

Znet Article, May, 14 2013 Jeremy Brecher
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American workers need jobs. They also need protection from chemicals and pollutants that threaten their lives, health, environment, climate, and future

Znet Article Brecher: Five Ways to Bridge the Jobs vs. Environment Gap

Znet Article, April, 30 2013 Jeremy Brecher
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Challenging the jobs vs. the environment conflict at five different levels

Znet Article Brecher: How EPA Climate Protection Can Be America’s Greatest Jobs Producer

Znet Article, February, 22 2013 Jeremy Brecher
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A comprehensive program to convert to a climate safe economy will produce tens of millions of jobs

Znet Article Brecher: After the Failure of Rio+20: A Human Preservation Movement?

Znet Article, July, 07 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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How can people power force the changes that are necessary to ensure human survival?

Znet Article Brecher: Occupy May Day: Not Your Usual General Strike

Znet Article, March, 27 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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We are today in the midst of an unrecognized global mass strike – witness the mass upheavals reported in the news almost daily from countries around the world

Znet Article 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

Znet Article Brecher: Keystone XL Opponents Need A Jobs Program

Znet Article, February, 06 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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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

Znet Article Brecher: Labor and Environment: New Steps for Dialogue

Znet Article, January, 20 2012 Jeremy Brecher
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What does the future hold for the relationship between environmentalism and organized labor?

Znet Article Brecher: The 99 Percent Organize Themselves

Znet Article, November, 05 2011 Jeremy Brecher
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There is clearly a bigger movement growing out of the Occupy movement

Znet Article Brecher: Change You Can Believe In

Znet Article, October, 26 2011 Jeremy Brecher
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The occupation movement that began on Wall Street and is now spreading across America is part of a tradition known in the American Revolution as the “people out of doors”

Znet Article Smith: Too Dirty for George W. Bush?

Znet Article, September, 22 2011 Brendan Smith
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The Keystone XL pipeline will carry oil that is too dirty for the US government to buy — under legislation signed by George W. Bush

Znet Article 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

Znet Article 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?

Commentary 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 ...

Commentary 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.

Commentary 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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...

Znet Article 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 ...

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