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Climate Protection. Activism. Filmography. Published works. References. Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements . Career. Labor History.
May 8, 2024 · about jeremy brecher You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems.
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Bio. Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements. His work has centered on understanding and nurturing the process he characterizes as “common preservation,” in which individuals and group shift from futile and/or self-destructive efforts at self-preservation to ...
Nov 3, 2021 · Now a policy and research director for the Labor Network for Sustainability, Brecher focuses much of his interest upon survival of the planet’s ecosystems, but also on the nonviolent mass action that will be required to make this goal achievable.
Strike! has been repeatedly updated. The 50 th anniversary edition published in 2020 included a chapter covering the “mini-revolts of the twenty-first century,” including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen; over a hundred pages of new materials and examined a wide range of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter, to the ...
Feb 4, 2022 · Jeremy Brecher presents scores of historical examples of people who changed history by adopting strategies of common preservation, showing what we can we learn from past social movements to better confront today’s global threats of climate change, war, and economic chaos. Praise for Common Preservation.
Jeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements including Strike!, Brass Valley, History from Below, Building Bridges, Global Village or Global Pillage, and Globalization from Below. He was Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio and received five regional Emmy Awards for ...
