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Ajowa Nzinga Ifateyo

Let's honor John Howard Griffin's work by actively exploring and acting on unconscious racism

What would the world be like had America truly learned about Griffin's identification unconscious white racism and had acted even in individual ways on his belief that there is no "other"?
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Tim Wise reflects on race and the Occupy Movement

The question of race in the Occupy Movement has been addressed by a few folks.  Here's Tim Wise's take.
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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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Occupy Wall Street - Occupy Yourselves

A different slant on Occupy Wall Street. Check this out....

 
http://www.youtube.com/occupyyourselves

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Equal Exchange worker cooperative releases statement of support of Occupy Wall Street

Equal Exchange of W. Bridgewater, MA, the worker cooperative which initiated fair trade with coffee farmers more than 20 years ago and one of the worker cooperative movement's oldest and more successful democratic organizations released a statement Oct. 27, 2011 "strongly" supporting, and urging others to support Occupy Wall Street. 

http://smallfarmersbigchange.coop/2011/10/27/equal-exchange-stands-with-occupy-wall-street/ 

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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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Baltimore-Washington, DC area cooperatives past and present

Baltimore's rich cooperative heritage dates back a couple hundred years to a shoemakers union that opened its own factory in 1794, according to John Curl, cooperative historian and author of For All The People:  Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America.  Curl writes in the Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy booklet entitled "Worker Cooperation and Collaboration in Baltimore & DC: Yesterday and Today" distributed at the  July 8-10, 2011 worker co-op conference that Baltimore was a center for worker cooperation.
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Michael Moore Letter: The Day the Middle Class Died

African Americans and the working class in general has always have always had a tough time under capitalism, which operates off our backs.  But the economic exploitation reached a new level when the predominantly white middle class, which tended to benefit from this oppressive arrangement, also started to get knocked off their feet. Award winning producer of Capitalism:  A Love Story Michael Moore lays out a very interesting history and encourages people to take action.

by Michael Moore

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Utah prepares to use gold as legal tender in preparation for collapse of dollar

The International Business Times reported Monday May 30, 2011 that Utah and other U.S. states are preparing to use gold as tender (money) and institute a monetary system that would survive a crash of the dollar.
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Mondragon's Corporate Model: "The Workers Have the Power"

Jose Luis Lafuente, Mondragon's Corporate Management Model specialist 

 

Some things speak for themselves:

"Mondragon Corporacion Cooperativa or the Mondragon Co-operative Corporation (MCC) is a business-based socioeconomic initiative with deep roots in the Basque Country, created for and by people and inspired by the Basic Principles of our Co-operative Experience.  It is firmly committed to the environment, competitive improvement and customer satisfaction in order to generate wealth in society through business development and the creation of, preferably co-operative employment which:

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