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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 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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?

Znet Article 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...

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?

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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 ...

Znet Article 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...

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 ...

Znet Article 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.

Znet Article 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-...

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