#MeetOurBoard: Jeremy Brecher, Board Member, Cornwall, CT
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of 15 books on labor and social movements.
Jeremy Brecher is a historian, documentary filmmaker, activist, and author of 15 books on labor and social movements.
He has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.
A lifelong Connecticut resident, Brecher served as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio.
He wrote and/or produced more than a dozen documentaries, mostly on Connecticut topics, including five on Connecticut African-American history, Connecticut Native American history, and Connecticut Puerto Rican history.
He was producer, writer, and host of Connecticut Public Radio's Remembering Connecticut, which broadcast more than 80 radio programs on a wide variety of Connecticut topics.
He is the author of two books on Connecticut working class history, "Brass Valley: The Story of Working People's Lives" and "Struggles in an American Industrial Region and Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Brass Valley."
Jeremy is the author of three books on climate change, "{Climate Insurgency," "Climate Solidarity," and "Against Doom."
His two most recent books, "Save the Humans?: Common Preservation in Action" and "Common Preservation in a Time of Mutual Destruction" address the possibilities for a human survival movement in the face of climate destruction and other threats to human survival.
Jeremy Brecher is a founding member of @ctclimatejobs, the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs and co-founder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network for Sustainability.
Jeremy's books and documentaries can be downloaded free at jeremybrecher.org.
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