How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity How Climate Protection Has Become Today’s Labor Solidarity
Union-led action on climate change has proliferated across the country.
May 6, 2015 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher
‘Jobs vs. the Environment’: How to Counter This Divisive Big Lie ‘Jobs vs. the Environment’: How to Counter This Divisive Big Lie
We can, and must, create common ground between the labor and climate movements.
Apr 22, 2014 / Jeremy Brecher
Occupy and the 99% Opposition Occupy and the 99% Opposition
Despite rumors of its demise, Occupy Wall Street has given rise to a flurry of actions targeting the 99 percent. What is this new phenomenon—and what role will it play in Nov...
Jul 9, 2012 / Jeremy Brecher
Occupy Climate Change Occupy Climate Change
The same corporations that destroyed the economy are wrecking the planet. Occupy should do something about that.
Mar 14, 2012 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher
The 99 Percent Organize Themselves The 99 Percent Organize Themselves
Besides sleeping in a park, what should those of us sympathetic to Occupy Wall Street be doing to advance the well-being of the 99 percent?
Nov 4, 2011 / Jeremy Brecher
The People Out of Doors: Change You Can Believe In The People Out of Doors: Change You Can Believe In
How can the Occupy Wall Street movement be sustained while retaining the democratic impulse that inspired it in the first place?
Oct 21, 2011 / Jeremy Brecher
Report Finds Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Black Sites Report Finds Evidence of Medical Experimentation at Black Sites
Doctors and psychologists weren't only observing "enhanced" interrogations. They were using information gathered to create a legal defense for those who authorized tortur...
Jun 8, 2010 / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Ehren Watada: Free at Last Ehren Watada: Free at Last
After three years of trying to convict Lt. Ehren Watada for refusing to deploy to Iraq, the Army has allowed him to resign.
Oct 26, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
The Trials of Ehren Watada The Trials of Ehren Watada
The government drops efforts to prosecute an officer who refused to fight in Iraq. But the Army continues its campaign against him.
May 19, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith
Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs? Can Green Jobs Be Good Jobs?
It felt like a dream a year ago, but a growing coalition of labor unions and environmentalists is putting real muscle into the idea that green jobs will help resolve the economic c...
Feb 16, 2009 / Feature / Jeremy Brecher