1930s & worker cooperatives

Entrepreneurs of cooperation by Jonathan Rowe Before Social Security and the WPA, the Unemployed Exchange Association rebuilt a collapsed economy The mood at kitchen tables in California in the early 1930s was as bleak as it was elsewhere in the United States....

Cut Aid for Poor, not Israel

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/02-9 Republicans and Democrats Agree: Cut Aid for Poor People, Not Israel by Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis With the U.S. economy in the tank and governments at all levels facing massive budget shortfalls, politicians left...

Activism is not a crime

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/25 Activism Is Not a Crime: Why I Will Not Testify Before This Federal Grand Jury by Maureen Murphy I have been summoned to appear before a federal grand jury in Chicago on January 25. But I will not testify, even at the risk...

WESPAC at County Budget Hearing

Roger Drew, Steve Glusker and Nada Khader made it into a photo in the Journal Newspaper today regarding the County budget hearing last night in White Plains.  We handed out 200 flyers to people attending the public hearing regarding the proposed extension of the...

U.S. Solidarity Economy

Please distribute as widely as possible! Thanks. The U.S. Solidarity Economy Network  invites you to the first national   Forum on the Solidarity Economy: Building Another World   March 19-22, 2009 * Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst   Co-convened...