by BrendanS | Apr 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
[By Jeremy Brecher] Forty years ago I published a study of peak periods of American labor conflict – what I dubbed periods of “mass strike” — called Strike! As I have updated the book for the fortieth anniversary edition, I have had the...
by BrendanS | Dec 13, 2013 | Politics of Climate Change, Uncategorized
Scientists and climate protection advocates once expected that rational leaders and institutions would respond appropriately to the common threat of climate change. As Bill McKibben said of Jim Hansen and himself, “I think he thought, as did I, If we get this...
by BrendanS | Sep 30, 2013 | Politics of Climate Change, post
LNS’s Jeremy Brecher and AIDS policy expert Kevin Fisher maintain in a new commentary in NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE that governments have ceased any serious individual or collective effort for climate protection. Yet there is no vehicle or venue to draw together...
by BrendanS | Aug 26, 2013 | Politics of Climate Change, Uncategorized
[by Jeremy Brecher] The summer of 1988 was long and hot. One scorching day I casually said to a deliveryman, “Awfully hot.” He responded, “I talk with old-timers who can’t remember anything like it in 60, 70 years.” He continued,...
by BrendanS | Aug 15, 2013 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change
[by Jeremy Brecher; cross-posted with Waging Nonviolence] Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline. Since then many more have been arrested around the...
