Jeremy Brecher Livres

Jeremy Brecher's Strike! narrates the dramatic story revolts by working class people in America. This hidden history is told from the point of view of the rank-and-file workers who lived it, encompassing the repeated repression of workers' rebellions by company sponsored violence local police, state militias, and the U.S. Army and National Guard. It reveals a dimension of American history rarely found in the usual school books and history courses. Since its original publication in 1972, Strike! has become an indispensible resource. This 50th anniversary edition brings the story up to date with chapters covering the mini-revolts of the 21st century, including Occupy Wall Street and the Fight for Fifteen. The new edition includes over 100 pages of new materials and concludes with an examination of current struggles, ranging from #BlackLivesMatter to the teacher strikes and the the Student and School Climate Strikes.

We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimper of an expiring ecosphere. Today our individual self-preservation depends on common preservation—cooperation to provide for our mutual survival and well-being. For half a century Jeremy Brecher has been studying and participating in social movements that have created new forms of common preservation. Brecher traces a path that leads from the sitdown strikes on the pyramids of ancient Egypt through America's mass strikes and labor revolts to the struggle against economic globalization to today's battles against climate change. Weaving together personal experience, scholarly research, and historical interpretation, Jeremy Brecher shows how we can construct a "human survival movement" that could "save the humans." He sums up the theme of this book: “I have seen common preservation—and it works.” For those seeking an understanding of social movements and an alternative to denial and despair, there is simply no better place to look than Save the Humans?

As world leaders eschew cooperation to address climate change, nuclear proliferation, economic meltdown, and other threats to our survival, more and more people experience a pervasive sense of dread and despair. Is there anything we can do? What can put us on the course from mutual destruction to common preservation? In the past, social movements have sometimes made rapid and unexpected changes that countered apparently incurable social problems. In Common Preservation, Brecher shares his experiences and what he has learned that can help ward off mutual destruction, and provides a unique heuristic—a toolkit for thinkers and activists—to understand and create new forms of common preservation.

"Late in 2015, nearly two hundred countries signed the Paris Agreement acknowledging their individual and collective duty to protect the earth’s climate—and willfully refused to perform that duty. In response to this institutional failure and to growing climate destruction, we are witnessing the birth of a global nonviolent constitutional insurgency. Against Doom: A Climate Insurgency Manual tells how to put strategy into action—and how it can succeed. It is a handbook for halting global warming and restoring our climate—a how-to for climate insurgents"-- Publisher description

Již před zvolením Donalda Trumpa směřoval svět ke klimatické katastrofě. S prezidentem Trumpem sešlápl pedál plynu a přidal na rychlosti. Zbývá nám ostatním nějaká možnost, jak sešlápnout brzdu? Klimatickou vzpourou rozumíme strategii, která chce získat podporu většiny veřejnosti pro prosazení našeho společného zájmu na ochraně stabilního klimatu. Hodlá využít masových, globálně koordinovaných, nenásilných přímých akcí k podvrácení moci těch politiků a korporací, které se podílejí na ničení klimatického systému. Globální klimatická vzpoura již začala. Má potenciál vzepřít se moci fosilního průmyslu a zastavit a zvrátit směřování ke klimatickému rozvratu.