by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
A recent article describing how farmworkers are resisting attacks on immigrant workers features LNS board member Edgar Franks, the political director of Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington State, an independent union of primarily Indigenous Mexican...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
On November 22, environmental justice organizations from 16 Louisiana parishes rallied at the Louisiana state capitol to urge Governor Landry and Louisiana’s leaders to take immediate steps toward a Just Transition, including cutting emissions, reducing pollution,...
by Jeremy Brecher | Dec 23, 2024 | Articles
Z Magazine recently published a review by Alexandria Shaner of The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy by LNS co-founder and senior strategic advisor Jeremy Brecher. Shaner wrote: Drawing on decades of hands-on...
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...
