Join underpaid working people throughout the country as we stand together for work that pays enough for us to sustain our families. We'll call on corporate CEOs to raise pay and respect our right for form unions without retaliation. And we'll call on our elected representatives to stop letting the wealthy and powerful write the … Continue reading National Day of Action: Fight for $15 and Union Rights for All
The Big Apple Coffee Party with All Souls Unitarian Church Peace & Justice Task Force and Lifelines Program are holding a forum: Trans-Pacific Partnership: Who Wins and Who Loses in This Secret Deal? With: Dr. Margaret Flowers, Healthcare reform activist and co-founder of Popular Resistance Jim Hightower, Syndicated columnist, author and publisher of The Hightower … Continue reading Trans-Pacific Partnership: Who Wins and Who Loses in This Secret Deal?
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a system by which people in a community can choose how to spend a portion of the public budget. It has revolutionized the nature of democracy … Continue reading Learning Democracy: A Discussion on Participatory Economics and Higher Education
The seeds are being planted for a new kind of online economy. For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers' lives. Online platforms often … Continue reading Platform Cooperativism: The Internet, Ownership, Democracy
Register at http://bit.ly/convwpearce, or at www.aabany.org and click on calendar to find the event. Mark Gaston Pearce is the Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board and he is currently serving his second term as a senate confirmed Board Member appointed by President Obama in 2013. Mark’s career can only be described as a serious dive into … Continue reading A Conversation with NLRB Chairman Mark Pearce: His Perspective and Path to Policy Maker
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