Economic Justice
Worker-Owners of America, Unite!
Is the NY Times getting it?
#Occupy Movement | beyond capitalism | cooperative economy | Cooperative Financial Institutions | Economic Justice | ESOPs | solidarity economy | Worker Cooperatives | Workplace Democracy | United States | Gleanings
The 99 Percent Organize Themselves
OWS and its progeny are creating a "rough and ready democracy" around the country
#Occupy Movement | beyond capitalism | Economic Justice | Strategies for Change | United States | Gleanings
Move Your Money Campaign --Amy Goodman
Campaign Grows to Divest from "Too Big to Fail" Banks to Local Banks, Credit Unions...Saturday Nov. 5 set as "Bank Transfer Day"
#Occupy Movement | Cooperative Financial Institutions | Credit Unions | Economic Justice | Financing & Financial Services | United States | Gleanings
Occupiers Have to Convince the Other 99 Percent
The occupation movement's greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of color. The civil rights movement achieved a legal victory, not an economic one. And for the bottom two-thirds of African-Americans, life is worse today than it was when Martin Luther King marched in Selma in 1965.
Economic Justice | Racial Justice | United States | Gleanings
The Public Option in Banking: The German Model
Publicly-owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany’s “economic miracle” after the devastation of World War II. Although the German public banks have been targeted in the last decade for takedown by their private competitors, the model remains a viable alternative to the private profiteering being protested on Wall Street today.
#Occupy Movement | Economic Justice | Financing & Financial Services | Gleanings
OCCUPY! CONNECT! CREATE! - Imagining Life Beyond "The Economy" (part one)
by Ethan Miller
"Fall in love with hard and patient work-we are the beginning, not the end."
-Zizek, at #OccupyWallStreet
"Lost my job, found an occupation!"
- sign at #OccupyWallStreet
NYC City Council Beginning a Focus on Worker Co-ops
Announcment from the NYC Network of Worker Co-ops in English and Spanish
Economic Justice | Solidarity Economy Organizing | Strategies for Change | Worker Cooperatives | Gleanings
From #OccupyWallStreet to #OccupyCampus?
It's time for higher education institutions to rethink their role in our economy and our society.
#Occupy Movement | Economic Justice | Education | Environmental Justice | Gleanings
Sharing Power: Building a Solidarity Economy
expanding our desires to share to address social inequity
Community Development | cooperative economy | Economic Justice | green economy | solidarity economy | Solidarity Economy Organizing | Blog Posts
Searching for a Way Forward
An early reflection on the #OccupyWallSt phenomenon
beyond capitalism | Economic Justice | solidarity economy | Strategies for Change | Blog Posts
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