by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
This year is certain to be the hottest on record, the first that will cross the critical threshold of 1.5C above the pre-industrial era. Climate scientists believe that crossing that threshold will lead to far worse consequences from climate change. Source: Climate...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
A new report from the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab at Johns Hopkins University finds that president-elect Donald Trump’s proposed cuts in climate policies will lead to “lost factories, lost jobs, lost tax revenue,” and “lost exports.” The report says that Scenario...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
“Champions” features current and historic figures who can inspire the struggle for a worker- and climate- safe world. W.E.B. Du Bois, born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was a sociologist, historian, author, editor, and activist whom the Encyclopedia...
by Jeremy Brecher | Nov 23, 2024 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Listen to the audio version >> “Polycrisis” is a word that has recently come into use to characterize the way crises in many different spheres – ranging from geopolitics and economics to climate and...
by Jeremy Brecher | Nov 23, 2024 | Articles
Jeff Johnson is the retiring chair of the LNS board. He has been a board member since 2018 and will continue in that role. For many years he was president of the Washington State Labor Council AFL-CIO. He joined the labor movement in 1979 as a member of Local 2190,...
