by Jeremy Brecher | Jul 30, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director The preceding commentary, “Fighting the Great Depression – From Below,” described the grassroots action by employed and unemployed workers in the early years of the Great Depression. This commentary and the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jul 15, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director At the pit of the Great Depression in 1930, an American country music group called the Carter Family recorded a song called The Worried Man Blues. It began: I went down to the river and I lay down to sleep When I...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jun 26, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director The previous commentary, “Black Lives in the Green New Deal,” described how the uprising in response to the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer is developing toward a movement addressing the...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jun 11, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director We are in the midst of the largest mass uprising in half a century. It is a response to the killing of an unarmed Black man named George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman. But it challenges a pattern of Black...
by Jeremy Brecher | Jun 3, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director In commemoration of George Floyd and in honor of all those fighting for racial justice against white supremacy, I devote this commentary to a history of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. I hope it will provide...
