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While the Green New Deal is often thought of as a program for climate and jobs, justice has been a central element…
Jeremy Brecher
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, author, and co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. He has been active in peace, labor, environmental, and other social movements for more than half a century. Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements, including Strike! and Global Village or Global Pillage and the winner of five regional Emmy awards for his documentary movie work.
Organized labor and the climate movement, often portrayed as opponents, have made an auspicious start toward cooperation in the autoworkers strike. The…
Listen to the audio version >> While protecting the climate will require millions of jobs, there is no guarantee that those jobs…
Despite opposition to a national Green New Deal by rightwing politicians and the fossil fuel industry, many “Little Green New Deals” are…
Listen to the audio version >> Boris Kagarlitsky, an internationally known scholar and a longtime political activist, was arrested by the Russian Federal…
Listen to the audio version >> While the Green New Deal has been largely blocked at the national level, it is thriving…
While the Green New Deal started as a proposed national program, some of the most impressive implementations of its principles and policies…
While the transition to climate-safe energy will create far more jobs than it will eliminate, that is cold comfort for those whose…
Books discussed: Kim Kelly’s Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor describes the heroic battles of workers to gain their rights and…
American unions increasingly recognize the threat of climate change to workers and their communities. Yet some unions continue to promote programs like…