by BrendanS | Jul 26, 2012 | Articles, post
[by Jeremy Brecher; Original published at Nation.com] Something is happening, but we don’t know yet what it is. The first half of 2012 saw a wave of people-powered actions protesting foreclosures, evictions, racial profiling, student debt, union busting, climate...
by BrendanS | Jul 1, 2012 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post, Uncategorized
[by Jeremy Brecher] A quarter-century ago, when “Save the Whales!” was a popular slogan, a New Yorker cartoon showed one whale asking another, “But can they save themselves?” In the early 21st century, experts and ordinary people alike are...
by Ming | Mar 26, 2012 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[On March 24, Occupy Wall Street held a Disrupt Dirty Power action to kick off a month of climate and environmental protests leading up to Earth Day; Labor Network for Sustainability’s Jeremy Brecher was the main speaker. (WSJ Marketwatch posted a video of the...
by Ming | Mar 15, 2012 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher; originally published by The Nation; watch a video interview of Jeremy here: Occupy Climate Change Video] Occupy Wall Street’s original Declaration of the City of New York, in September, listed a litany of issues, from foreclosures and...
by Ming | Mar 6, 2012 | Politics of Climate Change, post
Occupy Wall Street is planning a month of action starting March 24 and leading up to Earth Day April 22. Globally coordinated actions by Occupy groups and ally organizations will “connect the dots between the 1% and the destruction of the planet.” This is...
