Feminism & Gender Justice
No Wall Is Too Tall
The future of humans and Planet Earth depend on replacing the "greed-driven" economic system of Wall Street with the "life-serving" system of Main Street.
That was the message that David Korten, author Agenda for a New Economy, and co-founder of Yes! magazine, brought to the 58th annual conference of the Association of Cooperative Educators in Cleveland on Wednesday.
Korten was one of the reasons that I wanted to come to this conference. The other was to tour the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry. Thanks to the Ralph Morris Foundation, I was able to attend my first ACE conference.
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:
NASCO's Anti-oppression List: Action Camp Resources and Further Readings
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Linking the Global and the Local: Seikatsu's Vision
By Yvonne Poirier
Editors' note: Yvon Poirier is an editor of the International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development, from which this article is copied. The Japanese Seikatsu Club Consumers' Co-Operative Union was the subject of both the spring and summer issues of GEO (#s 12 and 13) in 1994. Seikatsu has grown since then to include 290,000 households. It is notable for its combination of worker and consumer co-ops, its insistence on high food quality, and for its direct involvement in local politics in the Tokyo area. Yvon comments that the current conservative government is doing all it can to undermine co-ops and other similar sectors.
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