The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
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Want Better Working Conditions in Restaurants? Build a Co-op
When employees make decisions and advocate for themselves, good things happen – like, when the business is profitable, they share in those profits rather than see the money doled out to shareholders.
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Act Out! [144] - The Unknown Toll of Fossil Fuels on Native Women + Richard Wolff on Democratizing our Lives
From predator economics to co-ops, we take a look at how our current system pollutes not only the planet but marginalized communities through direct and pervasive violence.
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Act Out! [138] - A Sanctuary from Depressing Consumerism
This week on Act Out!, we're in the midst of consumerism's high point, fresh off the heels of black Friday steals, sliding towards the most ironically plastic holiday of the year.
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Act Out! [136] - Cuba: What You Didn’t Know You Didn’t Know
This week on Act Out!, I'll introduce you to some people and facts you never knew about Cuba, lifting the veil on a vilified island that has suffered greatly from U.S. empire.
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2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There
People with money and power are still appalled by the notion of a popular democracy. But something is different now, as the American majority are better able to communicate and unify in pursuit of a progressive nation.
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New Economy Solutions: Convert Your Business Into A Worker-Owned Cooperative
For retiring business owners as well as entrepreneurs, selling a business to employees is a way to strengthen the business while getting a return on investment.
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Richmond, California Mayor Occupies Wall Street
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin is setting an example for how community activists can make big changes by running for local office independent of the two-party system and corporate campaign cash.
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Book Review - "What Then Must We Do?"
Gar Alperovitz's new book lists inspiring examples of worker-owned businesses and co-ops, and offers a powerful argument that radical change is needed in America — albeit an argument with some possible flaws.
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Cooperative Economics: Replacing a Capitalism in Collapse
My co-op house in Madison, Wisconsin, is just one example of cooperative economics replacing the outdated corporate capitalist model.
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Building Farms and Agriculture Policy for People — Not Corporations
From the school cafeteria to rural tomato farms to pickets the White House, people are challenging the ways in which government programs benefit big agribusiness to the detriment of small- and mid-sized farmers.
