Dystopia 16: A Place of Her Own
Sorry about my long pause there. I am still dealing with my own economic meltdown. I had to post this weekend, though, because there is so much going on. Both 350.org Action and Showdown in Chicago...
View ArticleSeattle Loses Boeing 787 Assembly Plant Bid to SC: An Open Letter to Michael...
Michael Moore's film came out a couple of months too early. The progression from capitalism to third world exploitation was advanced by today's decision of Boeing to bust the union and choose South...
View ArticleCooperating for a Profit: Winrock International and Kasinthula Cane Growers...
Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet.
View ArticleChange Your Life -> Change the World
If you're one of the growing number of people who is beginning to despair of ever stopping the march of Corporatism, here are a couple of suggestions that might re-energize and re-empower you. Try...
View ArticleWant Safer Mines? Democratize Them
Crossposted from Better Than Machines. Whitesville, West Virginia: 29 dead after an explosion in the Massey Energy Co.'s "Upper Big Branch" coal mine.Shanxi province, China: At least 35 dead after a...
View ArticleNortheast Biodiesel Groundbreaking August 3, Greenfield, MA
Dear Co-op Power Members and Supporters,Join us Tues., Aug 3rd, 11 am, for the Grand Groundbreaking for Northeast Biodiesel at our land in the Greenfield [MA] Industrial Park - Silvio Conte Drive (at...
View ArticleSurviving the "New Normal"
Meteor Blades asked some questions in his front page post this morning that we should all be asking:
View ArticleMondragon Diaries: Five Days Studying Cutting-Edge People and Tools for Change
This is a first-hand account of a remarkable 50-year old successful experiment in shaping the future, the worker-owned and controlled Mondragon Cooperatives thriving in Spain's Basque Country, and now...
View ArticleEnd Poverty in California
from I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked by Upton Sinclair(12-13) It is easy to imagine the unemployed of California in a system of production for use because of the efforts which they...
View ArticleWe need a Progressive media channel-
Let's make one! We absolutely must have our voices heard, or things are going to keep getting worse, fast. We need a progressive television or cable network that can present our vision- and it cannot...
View ArticleAnti-capitalist meet-up signpost
Tonight's anti-capitalist meet-up diary is by Justina. It discusses the creation of cooperatives in Venezuela:http://www.dailykos.com/...Come over and join us!
View ArticleTelling the “Set America Free!” Story
Telling the “Set America Free!” StoryBy Susan C. Strong, Executive Director, The Metaphor Project, http://www.metaphorproject.orgRight now the DC debt ceiling spectacle is disgusting just about...
View ArticleJoining Together With Our Local Neighbors To Effect Global Economic Changes.
I wrote the following comment in "democratic underground" a few days ago in response to a post full of existential despair about the horrors of capitalism. Rather than remaining in the paralysis of...
View ArticleMovements, History, & Economic Transformation, Part 3: The politics of the...
In this segment, I explain how we may be moving beyond the liberal model which seeks to regulate capitalism to something more egalitarian, participatory, and decentralized, grounded in the emerging new...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-Up: Corporations Are Dictatorships
Corporations are dictatorships. The major shareholders and the board of directors make all of the important decisions which are passed down the chain of command to employees who have no say in this...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meet-up: The Development of a Cooperative Economy in Practice
Separating Utopian Goals from Working Models.In Part 1 (DailyKos, AMC, Is a Non-exploitive Economy Based on Worker-Owned Cooperatives Possible, http://www.dailykos.com/..., Sun Jul 24, 2011) we...
View ArticleThe Occupy Moment is Over
And long live Occupy! Time to occupy our lives for the winter. It is time to take stock and plan for spring. Inevitably old habits and tendencies die hard. Individual spokespeople and elite committees...
View ArticleDon't Cry for Greece, Argentina
So the very country that invented democracy, is now denied the benefit of it. The banks of France and Germany have successfully stopped the referendum on Greece to allow austerity to proceed. Troika...
View ArticleThe Real Job Creators at The Riverwest Public House Coop [or] We Drink and...
Smack dab in the middle of Milwaukee's eccentric, artistic and diverse Riverwest neighborhood is the Riverwest Public House Cooperative. Hardly two years old, it has become the vital heart of activist...
View ArticleA Tea Party Socialist?
From a political perspective, an interesting thing about cooperation and worker ownership is its potential for cross-partisan support. To the Left, community ownership can be seen as libertarian...
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