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Dec 2024
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Jeremy Brecher, "The Green New Deal from...

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The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy (U Illinois Press, 2024) offers 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 protecti ... Show More
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