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Event: Renewing the Alliance: Unions and Co-ops Fight for Worker Power (6/9)
Friday, June 9, 2017 * 1pm to 5pm Fordham Law School at Lincoln Center 150 West 62nd Street * New York City **FREE** Register at http://bit.ly/2qczTH3 Directions: http://bit.ly/2rL7zNs Under fierce attack from the corporate sector, labor unions are exploring worker co-ops as a way to organize new members, save members’ jobs, create…
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Video: From Economic Crisis to Economic Democracy
In honor of the birthday of W.E.B. Du Bois, who amidst other great accomplishments authored Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans in 1907, the Murphy Institute hosted a forum on Friday, February 28th to explore the stories, struggles and successes of workers who have taken control and bettered their lives through the cooperative history of African-American communities, and…
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Black Communities Leading the Movement for Economic Democracy
By Rebecca Lurie Black History Month is here — and we must declare Black Lives Matter well beyond any one month. Dr. Phil Thompson shares some important facts and insights in a recent article in the New Labor Forum, “The Future of Urban Populism: Will Cities Turn the Political Tide?“ He clearly lays out that the…
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Cooperative Business and the State of Higher Education
Cooperative business models are increasingly recognized as an essential element for transforming our economy. But where can you go to learn about them? In a recent article in the Chronicle Review (Curricular Cop-out on Coops), Nathan Schneider offers a somewhat dispiriting picture of the higher education landscape for cooperative economics. He writes: Education has been a basic…
