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...
by Jeremy Brecher | May 18, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This is the fourth in a series of commentaries on Workers vs. Coronavirus. The first, “Strike for Your Life,” describes how in recent weeks workers in diverse industries and regions have initiated strikes to demand...
by Jeremy Brecher | May 6, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director This is the fourth in a series of commentaries proposing an Emergency Green New Deal. Mass unemployment, misery, and impoverishment require emergency response not only to the medical pandemic but to the economic...
by Jeremy Brecher | Apr 28, 2020 | Strike!
By Jeremy Brecher, LNS Research and Policy Director Warning: I have gone viral and seized “Jeremy Brecher’s Corner.” When I look at the so-called “world order” of the human race, I lick my chops. In the good old days, my ancestors used to be able to conduct...
