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Racial Justice

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.
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New Documentary Reveals the Remarkable Life of Black Like Me Author John Howard Griffin

John Howard Griffin is best known today as the author of Black Like Me, which tells of his 1959 journey through the American South disguised as a black man. But there is much more to Griffin than that extraordinary experiment in race relations. As a new documentary shows, John Howard Griffin possessed an uncommon vision of our shared humanity, and spent his life in a fearless search for truth.
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Uncommon Vision and Commonplace Projection

...Atkinson brings to life the poignant irony of a blind man returning to the land of vision to show how those like you and me with normal, take-it-for-granted vision can and do manipulate our vision to see what we want and are conditioned to see without seeing that that is what we are doing.  And that we do this regardless of our race, color, culture, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
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Doing Green Jobs Right

An article in The Nation magazine tells how Boston's Green Justice Coalition is creating "a model to connect the struggle for environmental justice with the fight for living-wage jobs, helping to lay the groundwork for a new generation of community-labor coalitions across the country."
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David Roach's Mo' Better Food - Building Healthy Economics newsletter

David Roach is doing incredibly important work in Oakland with Mo' Better Food, schools, intergenerational learning, farmer's markets, and other things.  He was our incredible improvisational tour guide of Oakland.

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Sign up for anti-racism training at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives conference in Berkeley

Anti-Racism in the Workplace two-day training, August 9th & 10th, 2010, UC Berkeley.

The U.S. Federation for Worker Cooperatives has organized an intensive 2-day workshop as part of the conference.  Here's how conference co-organizer, kiran nigam, bills it:    

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NASCO's Anti-oppression List: Action Camp Resources and Further Readings

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/449

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Graduating Green Dreams: Green Worker Cooperative Academy Is Helping Worker Co-ops Flourish in the South Bronx

 

 

Permanent link to this article: http://geo.coop/node/434

By Sonia Pichardo, Ph.D.

Although there were no mortarboards worn on Jan. 10, 2010 at the Green Worker Co-op Academy graduation, there was a great deal of pomp and circumstance surrounding the graduation of the Fall 2009 Co-op Academy Class. The graduation took place in the flower-filled grand, domed reading room at Gould Hall at Bronx Community College - a first for the Academy.  The graduation was hosted by the Center for Sustainable Energy.

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Addressing Race and Power in Worker Cooperatives

By Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo, GEO

For worker cooperatives to be effective, member-owners should look at power relationships within and peform a "critical self-examination" of themselves and their co-op. That was one of the suggestions of the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond to worker-owners at the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives at the third biennial conference in New Orleans.

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