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Excellent Article on the New Economy Movement
We highly recommend this recent article by Gar Alperowitz, in the June 13 issue of the The Nation, which highlights the growing experimentation by activists, economists and socially minded business leaders with new economic projects, including worker cooperatives and other forms of employee ownership. It was reposted by the Democracy Collaborative. Alperowitz co-founded The Democracy [...]
International Year of Cooperatives 2012
“The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, in particular recognizing their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration.” More on the International Year of Cooperatives > The U.S. Senate is on record recognizing 2012 as International Year of [...]
Our First Visit to Basque Country
We recently returned from a research trip to the beautiful Basque Country in northern Spain where the Mondragon Corporation has its roots. While we won’t actually begin filming at the Mondragon factories until this fall, we had a wonderful time touring the area, making connections, and further honing our vision of the kinds of stories [...]
Bay Area Coops Thriving
On our first filming trip for Shift Change, the production team set out for the San Francisco Bay Area in May. Early one morning, 5:30 a.m. and barely awake, we arrived at one of the newest bakeries of the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives, on Valencia Street in the Mission. An enthusiastic, young crew was deeply [...]
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