Save 50% on this new BOOK! $20.00 | 272 Pages ISBN 9781629637983 Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action By Jeremy Brecher $20.00 $10.00 Save 50% with coupon code APRIL until 04/30 Buy Now 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. Through entertaining storytelling and personal narrative, Save the Humans? provides a unique and revealing interpretation of how social movements arise and how they change the world. 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? “This is a remarkable book: part personal story, part intellectual history told in the first person by a skilled writer and assiduous historian, part passionate but clearly and logically argued plea for pushing the potential of collective action to preserve the human race. Easy reading and full of useful and unforgettable stories. . . . A medicine against apathy and political despair much needed in the U.S. and the world today.” —Peter Marcuse, author of Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory “Over the last decades, Jeremy Brecher has known how to detect the critical issues of a period, to sort the many realities of suffering and injustice, and to emerge with a clear, short, powerful description. He does it again in this important book-it is about people: how our system devalues people and what needs to be done.” —Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights “The most important story of the past half century is that of ordinary people organizing to transform the way society looked at workers, unjust war, women, people of color, and the environment. Jeremy Brecher’s life and book tell this story with a passion and comprehensiveness that make this a must-read for fans of justice.” —John Cavanagh, director of the Institute for Policy Studies and author of Development Redefined: How the Market Met Its Match and The Field Guide to the Global Economy “Indispensable . . . A fascinating blend of political autobiography and manual for social change, giving cogent primacy to the stark goal of human preservation. With species survival at stake, what Jeremy Brecher writes is at once frightening and inspiring.” —Richard Falk, author of Palestine’s Horizon: Toward a Just Peace and Power Shift: On the New Global Order “One of America’s most admired activist-scholars shines his light on the path forward, reminding us that social change is both possible and urgent.” —Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Author Jeremy Brecher is the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements including Strike!, Brass Valley, History from Below, Building Bridges, Global Village or Global Pillage, and Globalization from Below. He was Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio and received five regional Emmy Awards for his documentary film work. He helped found and currently works with the Labor Network for Sustainability. He holds a Ph.D. from the Union Graduate School. Save 50% with coupon code APRIL until 04/30 Buy Now Related titles also available for 50% off! Use coupon code APRIL until 04/30 Use coupon code APRIL until 04/30 and save 50% ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ View as Webpage PM Press | PO Box 23912, Oakland, CA 94623 Unsubscribe [email protected] Update Profile | About Constant Contact Sent by [email protected] in collaboration with Try email marketing for free today!