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We Did It! Thank You for Your Support!
We did it! We’re so pleased to announce that we reached our $30k Kickstarter fundraising goal to finish our film, Shift Change! But we definitely didn’t do it alone. We want to thank each and every one of the 247 people who pledged their financial support. We also want to thank all of the friends, [...]
A Message from Shift Change Producer Melissa Young
Dear friends, cooperators, and supporters, Maybe you, like me, have felt discouraged about the state of our economy, and the imbalance of political and economic power in the U.S. today. It was this feeling of discouragement and frustration that initially set me on a path to look for concrete, accessible alternatives. A friend suggested that [...]
The Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy: Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives (CSR Newswire)
[This article was originally published on CSR Newswire. Read the full story here >] By Susan Arterian In our last post we introduced Capital Institute’s Field Guide to Investing in a Resilient Economy series, which utilizes the power of narrative to recast the story of our financial system, chronicling the progress of transformative, scalable, real-world investment models that support [...]
Tips & Resources: Help Us Spread the Word About Shift Change on Kickstarter!
From April 4 – May 4, 2012 we are running a Kickstarter campaign to raise much-needed funds for the completion and distribution of Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work. Kickstarter is the world’s largest online funding platform for creative projects. Our goal is to raise $30k in 30 days. We are counting on your support– [...]
American Dream 2.0: Can Worker-Owned Coops End Poverty?
[This article originally appeared here on Rebuild the Dream] This month, Rebuild the Dream is taking a look at a few of the amazing ways people in our communities are coming together to create local economies that empower the 99%. We call these initiatives the American Dream 2.0 because they are providing a totally revamped [...]
Al Jazeera TV report – Spanish co-op weathers financial storm
The world’s largest worker-owned co-operative remains strong despite Spain’s financial woes.
New Photo Gallery! People and Quotes from Shift Change
We hope you enjoy these photos and quotes from some of the many cooperative workers and business owners featured in Shift Change. Please check back often as we will update this gallery with more photos over the next several months, in advance of the film’s summer release.
Inspired by Mondragon, Chicago works to bring back world class manufacturing
Chicago once had many large and small industries that provided thousands of family wage jobs. But with the decline in US manufacturing, many of those industries and jobs have disappeared. . Now a coalition of business, labor, education, and public officials called the Chicago Manufacturing Renaissance Council [CMRC] is determined to restore Chicago as a [...]
Occupy Production: A Vision for Democracy at Work
(by: Richard D. Wolff, Truthout | Op-Ed) As the Occupy movement keeps developing, it seeks solutions for the economic and political dysfunctions it exposes and opposes. For many, the capitalist economic system itself is the basic problem. They want change to another system, but not to the traditional socialist alternative (e.g. USSR or China). That [...]
What They’re Saying About SHIFT CHANGE
Since we released a 6 minute preview of the new film Shift Change: Putting Democracy to Work just a few weeks ago, it has been viewed by more than 15,000 people all around the world; we’ve received countless messages of encouragement and support from viewers as far afield as Israel, Australia, and South Africa; and [...]
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