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Announcing a Global Teach-In

Building a new economy and new wealth through democracy networks, green jobs, and an alternative financial system
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Hundreds of thousands leaving banks for credit unions

40,000 moved their accounts on Bank Transfer Day, but leading up to that, 650,000 moved after Bank of America and other banks announced planned debit card fees.
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Move Your Money Campaign --Amy Goodman

Campaign Grows to Divest from "Too Big to Fail" Banks to Local Banks, Credit Unions...Saturday Nov. 5 set as "Bank Transfer Day"
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The Public Option in Banking: The German Model

Publicly-owned banks were instrumental in funding Germany’s “economic miracle” after the devastation of World War II. Although the German public banks have been targeted in the last decade for takedown by their private competitors, the model remains a viable alternative to the private profiteering being protested on Wall Street today.
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Credit Union Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Lower East Side People's Federal Credit Union celebrates 25th Anniversary in New York City November 3rd
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Mondragon Training Journal: May 18, 2011: Saiolan, Mondragon's Business Innovation Center

 

Dr. Isabel Uribe 

Ever since I first learned about Mondragon cooperatives in Dr. Christina Clamp's graduate class at Southern New Hampshire University, I have been fascinated with what black people might do with the lessons from the Mondragon experience. 

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Union leaders to pull funds from five banks, look to CUs

report from Credit Union National Association
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What can 2,500,000 Berkshares Buy

The real economy is people.
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Food and Finance

The evolution of food and finance since the 1970s.
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Mondragon Diaries: Day Five

Our first stop is another component allied with Mongragon University called SAIOLAN. It's an incubator project for helping to launch new coops and high-tech businesses as well as training new entrepreneurs.
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