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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
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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?
Smith: The Coming Green Wave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change
Znet Article, November, 27 2011
Brendan Smith
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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
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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
Brecher: Citing Jobs and the Environment, More Unions Backing EPA
Znet Article, April, 23 2011
Jeremy Brecher
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At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it looked like public opinion and organized labor might just be swept along.
Smith: Should We Remain Silent About Climate Change?
Znet Article, April, 01 2011
Brendan Smith
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For the last several years many of the biggest players in the climate movement have argued that to save the planet we need to purge the words “global warming” and “climate change” from our talking points and educational materials.
Brecher: New Study Reveals the Benefits of EPA Regulation for Labor
Znet Article, February, 10 2011
Jeremy Brecher
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The new study joins a large number of previous studies showing that EPA regulation, in addition to protecting the environment and the public’s health, also serves as a job-growing economic stimulus and development program for the American economy.
Brecher: Coming Now to a Job Near You!
Znet Article, October, 16 2010
Jeremy Brecher
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What will be the impact of climate change on California workers if the US and other countries around the world fail to significantly reduce green house gas emissions? In other words, what happens in a "do nothing" scenario?
Smith: Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
Znet Article, October, 06 2010
Brendan Smith
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The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they're fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California's "Job Killing Global Warming Law." But don't be fooled: if passed, Proposition 23 will remove al...
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?
Smith: BP: No Friend of the Oysterman
Znet Article, June, 13 2010
Brendan Smith
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With gallows humor, my fellow oystermen around the country have been passing around a Youtube clip of a 1960 educational film produced by the oil industry entitled "Lifeline to an Oyster."
Smith: Mayor Bloomberg vs Artists
Znet Article, May, 02 2010
Brendan Smith
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Last week a bubbly woman from Ohio stopped by our table in Union Square. "This is why I love coming to New York!" she explained as she flipped through our silkscreens. "Everywhere else I go, it's the same imported crap in the stores. But out here,...
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 ...
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...
Smith: Unions Need to Sever All Ties with Anti-Climate Bill Groups
Znet Article, October, 02 2009
Brendan Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
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: 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: 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: The G-20 vs. The G-6 Billion
Znet Article, November, 19 2008
Jeremy Brecher
Brecher's ZSpace page
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
Brecher's ZSpace page
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
Brecher's ZSpace page
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...
