Grassroots Economic Organizing

Environmental Justice

June 18, 2017

We Need New Stories

Naomi Klein has an interesting article in the latest issue of the Nation, Daring to Dream in the Age of Trump. I recommend it. Much to appreciate, disagree with, and discuss. I want to focus on two features of it, one I find quite surprising and one that is so typical and so disempowering of the Democratic Left.
June 17, 2017

Window on 21st Century Activism:The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy (ECWD)

June 16, 2017

Rising Up with TESA!

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June 3, 2017

The "Green Insiders' Club" - Why Wallow in the Problem or Wait for Godot?

Let's stop trying to squeeze blood from a turnip. Green movement diversity watchdog, Green 2.0 released telling data last week on the American environmental movement's top 40 NGOs. Three years after the publishing of State of Diversity in Environmental Organizations, the new "Transparency [Report] Card" shows that "staff, leadership, and boards of mainstream environmental organizations and foundations are still overwhelmingly white." 

May 30, 2017

Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops 4

GEO's 2017 one-day mini conference focusing on race, class, and gender in cooperative development, and on shared tools for assisting co-ops.

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May 22, 2017

The Future is a "Pluriverse"

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May 15, 2017

The Permanent Community Energy Cooperative

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May 8, 2017

A Culture with Heart

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May 2, 2017

The Kids are Alright, Part 2

An interview with James Dunn

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April 21, 2017

The Kids are Alright, Part 1

An interview with James Dunn.

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