Announcing Jeremy Brecher's New Book The Green New Deal from Below

I have a new book coming out called The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy.

As a historian of social movements, I am always alert for signs that, while apparently modest in themselves, new movements may foreshadow new forms of organization and action by ordinary people. The Green New Deal from Below has all the hallmarks of such a development. The Green New Deal from Below details more than a hundred Green New Deal from Below initiatives by community groups, unions, tribes, and city and state governments in more than 40 states. I believe such initiatives can make a significant contribution to building a base against tyranny in the impending Trump era.

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Comments on The Green New Deal from Below:

“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