by BrendanS | Jun 29, 2011 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
[by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] More than two million American construction workers — nearly one in five — are currently unemployed. Factories that produce building materials are operating at only half their capacity. So when a private company...
by Ming | May 14, 2011 | Art and Activism, post
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...
by BrendanS | May 6, 2011 | post
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...
by Ming | Apr 21, 2011 | Labor and Climage Action, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith At the start of 2011, as the energy corporations, the US Chamber of Commerce, and the Tea Party right launched their assault on environmental protection and the EPA, it looked like public opinion and organized labor might just be...
by Ming | Mar 29, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
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...
by BrendanS | Feb 28, 2011 | Just Transition, post
President Barack Obama recently established a Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He told the first meeting, “The biggest challenge we’re seeing right now is that unemployment is way too high.” He asked them to come up with “some...
