The Green New Deal from Below
Cloth: 11/12/2024
About the Book
A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice.Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy.
A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change.
* Publication was supported by a grant from the Howard D. and Marjorie I. Brooks Fund for Progressive Thought.
About the Author
Jeremy Brecher is a cofounder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network for Sustainability. His books include Strike!, Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action, and Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival.Also by this author
Reviews
Blurbs
“The Green New Deal, like every necessary transformation, is too important a project to be left to politicians. If we want a future where working-class Americans thrive and our planet is saved, we the people are going to have to show our leaders how to get the job done. Jeremy Brecher, the great historian and builder of working-class movements, understands this better than anyone. And with The Green New Deal from Below he provides the blueprint for another world that is, indeed, possible.”--John Nichols, national affairs correspondent, The Nation
“Massive social transformation emerges through the ingenuity and vision of ordinary people. Jeremy Brecher captures the beginnings of a sea change within communities, unions, cities, and states that champion climate protection, justice, and job creation through their own Green New Deals. These highly readable, inspiring, and hopeful chapters trace how change truly happens--from the bottom up.”--Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement
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