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Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of books on labor and social movements.
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 strategies of ...
Jun 24, 2024 · About SAVE THE HUMANS? “ A breath-taking manuscript: I am overwhelmed and beginning to think how I can integrate this into my teaching. [An] enormous contribution to the advancement of know how for common preservation. – Frieder Otto Wolf, Free University of Berlin and former Member of the European Parliament for the German Greens.
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.
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.
Sep 23, 2022 · Historian Jeremy Brecher’s new book shows how everyone can find a place and a role in the movement to address the climate crisis. By Dalilah Shemia-Goeke Waging NonViolence August 15, 2022. This book review is from the new 2022 issue of Journal of Resistance Studies (Vol. 8 No.1).
My first book, Strike!, told the story of “repeated, massive, and sometimes violent revolts by ordinary working people in America.”. [1] It focused on the action of rank-and-file workers “thinking, planning, drawing lessons from their own experience, organizing themselves, and taking action in common,” sometimes using “unions and ...
