[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our world a better place to live. In the midst of an ascended right [...]

Original Appeared in Grist Magazine, By Brendan Smith and Joe Uehlein Throughout history, artists have joined forces with political movements to battle injustice and demand a better and more beautiful world. Picasso’s “Guernica” captured the horrors of the German bombing of civilians in 1937. “Solidarity Forever,” “We Shall Overcome,” and “Give Peace [...]

By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Not worried about climate change? How about the health of you and your family? For decades the public health community has been trying to get us to understand that climate change affects the fundamental requirements for health – clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure [...]

by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher To talk of climate change or not to talk of climate change — that is the question. 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 [...]