Democratic Dialog & Deliberation

Phyllis Chesler’s reflections on how the radical feminist movement was powerful but also killed its own

How to destroy relationships, communities, and democracy

A major figure in the women’s liberation movement in the 60s and 70s, her dynamic flame burned out when she was only in her 20s. Her story dramatizes two dynamics that cripple radical movements.

What I mean by the "yawning gap" between our potential and our practice of cooperation.

NY Times lengthy story on Participatory Budgeting

A core operating principle and some corollaries for the Occupy movement

empirical activism to achieve meaningful mutual advantage

Local reports and interesting commentaries

Beware of rear-view thinking and projecting un-reflected assumptions

Our task is both to experience and to conceive the concrete, that is to say, reality in its fullness and wholeness.
--R D Laing, Politics of Experience

We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory.
  --R D Laing, The Politics of Experience

At conferences it is always refreshing to meet great and inspiring people who are creating the change the world needs. Listening to the brass band on Saturday night and chanting "no bosses" was invigorating and refreshing. Thank you to all I had the pleasure of meeting.

We are not going to become the solution any time soon, but I believe that we have the opportunity to achieve a lot, like laying down a foundational strategy and infrastructure open to diverse approaches for the generation to come.

Asset Building for Cooperatives
Cooperation: Unique Prescription for Health
Mondragon and Steelworkers Union Alliance
Cooperatives and Peace
Overcoming Barriers
Ohio City Bike Cooperative tour

Today was another amazing day of presentations at the ACE conference!....

Unlike other conferences that I'm used to attending, you don't have to choose from workshops at the Association of Cooperative Educators. There is only one track, and everyone is on the same one.