Jeremy Brecher

Historian Jeremy Brecher is a co-founder of the Labor Network for Sustainability. A new, post-Paris edition of his Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival will be published by Routledge in 2016. A new edition of his book Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival, is available for free download at www.jeremybrecher.org.

Latest from Jeremy Brecher

Op-Ed

Labor Must Embrace the Anti-Trump Resistance to Fight for the Working Class

The effort to embrace and work with Trump is short-sighted at best, and it may be short-lived.

by: Joe Uehlein &; Jeremy Brecher,; In These Times

March 11, 2017

Op-Ed

Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor

The Dakota Access Pipeline has become an issue of contention within organized labor.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainability

October 5, 2016

Op-Ed

This Is What Insurgency Looks Like

This action represented an insurgency because it denied the right of the existing powers and principalities.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainability

May 25, 2016

Op-Ed

Using the “Public Trust” to Frame “Break Free From Fossil Fuels” Actions

What if we defined ourselves as law-enforcers trying to halt corporations from committing the greatest crime in human history?

by: Jeremy Brecher &; David Solnit,; Break Free 2016

May 5, 2016

News Analysis

A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers

Such actions are about to take a quantum leap both in numbers and in global coordination.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Waging Nonviolence

March 6, 2016

Op-Ed

“Making the Promises Real”: Labor and the Paris Climate Agreement

A labor climate program can draw together workers, unions and allies around protecting jobs by protecting the climate.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainability

February 7, 2016

Op-Ed

Economy & Labor

Climate Insurgency After Paris

At COP21, the governments of the world made a promise to the people of the world – and immediately betrayed it.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainabilty

January 18, 2016

News

Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take?

Protecting the earth’s climate is in the long-term interest of all humanity.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainability

September 26, 2015

News

Climate Destruction in the Court of Public Opinion

Organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the UN to indict political leaders and corporate polluters for their failure to protect our health,…

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Waging Nonviolence

October 21, 2014

Unions Backing Historical People’s Climate March

Labor supporters of the march are encouraging union members, their families and their friends to participate in the September 21 March.

by: Jeremy Brecher,; Labor Network for Sustainability

July 8, 2014