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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
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
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
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?
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
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
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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
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?
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
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”
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
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: 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.
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.
