Unions Making a Green New Deal From Below–Part 2

Unions Making a Green New Deal From Below–Part 2

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder This second of two commentaries on “Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below” portrays what it looks like when unions in a town decide to create a local Green New Deal or when unions in a state decide to...
Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below–Part 1

Unions Making a Green New Deal from Below–Part 1

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder While Washington struggles over job and climate programs, unions around the country are making their own climate-protecting, justice-promoting jobs programs. While unions have been divided on the Green New...
Fossil Fuel Phaseout–From Below

Fossil Fuel Phaseout–From Below

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Protecting the climate requires rapidly reducing the extraction of fossil fuels. That’s a crucial part of the Green New Deal. While the federal government has done little so far to reduce fossil fuel...
Negawatts–From Below

Negawatts–From Below

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Tired of waiting for the Green New Deal? Thousands of individuals and communities, cities, and states are taking climate protection into their own hands by creating their own “Green New Deal from Below.” This...
Climate-Safe Energy Production–From Below

Climate-Safe Energy Production–From Below

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder Climate-safe energy is being produced locally all over the country in ways that also produce jobs and increase racial, social, and economic justice – fulfilling the basic principles of the Green New Deal....
Citizen Pilgrim: Richard Falk and Me

Citizen Pilgrim: Richard Falk and Me

By Jeremy Brecher,Senior Strategic Advisor, LNS Co-Founder As the world’s governments escalate the threat of human annihilation through climate change, nuclear holocaust, and burgeoning injustice, it is hard to see what alternative world order could restrain their...