[D66] Save the Humans?

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  Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action

SKU: 9781629637983
Author: Jeremy Brecher
Publisher: PM Press
ISBN: 9781629637983
Published: 5/2020
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 272
Subjects: Social Movements/History

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?/

*Praise:*

“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 /

*About the Author: *

Jeremy Brecher has participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, 
civil rights, peace, international labor rights, global economic 
justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many 
others. He is the author of fifteen books on labor and social movements, 
including the national best seller /Strike!/ He has received five 
regional Emmy awards for his documentary film work. He is currently 
policy and research director for the Labor Network for Sustainability.

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