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Announcing TWO upcoming screenings in Washington, D.C.

Moving Images — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:45:47 +0000

Announcing two December 17th screenings of SHIFT CHANGE in Washington, D.C. More information about the film and links to RSVP for the daytime event and to purchase tickets to the evening screening can be found here >

Special Daytime Screening of SHIFT CHANGE

Monday, December 17, 2012, 11:00 AM

Gompers Room, AFL-CIO, 815 16th Street, N.W.

FREE and open to the public.

Prescreening panel discussion on worker cooperatives & job creation with:

Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers
Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative
Liz Bailey, Cooperative Development Foundation
John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
David Madland, Center for American Progress
Michael Peck, Mondragon

More info can be found here >

Evening Premiere of SHIFT CHANGE & Fundraiser

Monday, December 17, 2012, 7:30 PM

Landmark E Street Cinema, 555 11th Street, N.W.

Introduction by Omar Freilla, Green Worker Cooperatives

Q&A with Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young, filmmakers, to follow the screening

NOTE: $10 suggested donation to benefit cooperatives recovering from Hurricane Sandy

More info can be found here >

Co-sponsors for the DC premiere include: American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), Coop DC, Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF), DC Labor FilmFest, Democracy Collaborative, Institute for Policy Studies, Metro Washington Council AFL-CIO, Mondragon USA, National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA), NCB Financial Group, New Economy Working Group, ONE DC, Taylored Communications and United Steelworkers (USW).

Capitalism Has Failed: 5 Bold Ways to Build a New World (Alternet)

Moving Images — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:08:37 +0000

Gar Alperovitz and the Democracy Collaborative which he founded are working with us to set up screenings of Shift Change in the fall and helping to prepare discussion materials to accompany the film. This article is the first in a 5 part series published on Alternet.

May 16, 2012: As our political system sputters, a wave of innovative thinking and bold experimentation is quietly sweeping away outmoded economic models. In New Economic Visions, a special five-part AlterNet series edited by economics editor Lynn Parramore in partnership with political economist Gar Alperovitz of the Democracy Collaborative, creative thinkers come together to explore the exciting ideas and projects that are shaping the philosophical and political vision of the movement that could take our economy back… [read the full article]

Watch a 6-Minute Preview of SHIFT CHANGE

Moving Images — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:08:23 +0000

At a time when many are disillusioned with big banks and big business, and growing inequity in our country, employee ownership offers a real solution for workers and communities. SHIFT CHANGE is a new documentary that highlights worker-owned enterprises in North America and in Mondragon, Spain.

Take a look at the preview and please share your comments.

Occupy Production: A Vision for Democracy at Work

Moving Images — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:14:05 +0000

(by: Richard D. Wolff, Truthout | Op-Ed)

Photo: Bill Ruhsam / Flickr

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 system, too, seems to require basic change.

The common solution these activists propose is to change both systems’ production arrangements from the ground up. Every enterprise should be democratized. Workers should occupy their enterprise by collectively functioning as its board of directors. That would abolish the capitalist exploitative system (employer versus employee) much as our historical predecessors abolished the parallel exploitative systems of slavery (master versus slave) and feudalism (lord versus serf)…

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