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Worker Cooperatives: Pathway for Jobs Creation in Yonkers
March 12, 2014 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Panel Discussion
WORKER-OWNED PRODUCERS’ COOPERATIVES:
An Alternative Pathway for Jobs Creation
and Economic Development for Yonkers
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Hudson River Community Association March Meeting
Nepperhan Community Center
342 Warburton Ave., Yonkers
Panel Participants:
Julie Weiner, M.S., LMHC, Health Educator, Yonkers Community Activist:
The Mondragon Coop: Economic Success in Basque Spain after the Devastation of War; and The Sequel, 2013: Interview with a Mondragon Worker-Owner at Eroski, Spain’s Cooperative Alternative to Walmart.
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Community Justice and Social and Economic Development, Department of African-American Studies, John Jay College, CUNY:
The Untold Tale of Asset Building in African-American Communities: Wealth Accumulation through Cooperative Ownership
Peg Rapp, M.S., Economist and Journalist:
Three Current Models of Coop Creation:
Which Would Work Best in Yonkers?