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WESPAC promotes Economic Justice through promoting fair trade year round and helping to organize the annual Margaret Eberle Fair Trade Festival in White Plains. We also partner with the Wassaic Community Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) http://wassaiccommunityfarm.com. WESPAC is an active member of the Hudson Valley Fair Economy Coalition that meets monthly at the Union Hall in Port Chester, and we have taken a lead role in promoting a public bank for the State of New York. To get involved, please contact the office at 914.449.6514 or by email at [email protected].

The West’s Luck has Run Out

Why I fear the west’s luck has run out By Luke Johnson Published: January 28 2009 00:23 | Last updated: January 28 2009 00:23 function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum - 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl =...

10 Point Plan

The Organizer Newspaper P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA 94140. Tel. (415) 641-8616; fax: (415) 626-1217. email: [email protected] PLEASE EXCUSE DUPLICATE POSTINGS ------------------------------------------------ Dear Sisters and Brothers: Greetings and best...

Our Collapsing Economy

Our Collapsing Economy US's Negative Net Worth at $59.3 Trillion Paul Craig Roberts CounterPunch January 12, 2009 According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payroll employment declined by 3,445,000 from December 2007 through December 2008. The collapse in...

Fed Reserve sets stage for Hyperinflation

Federal Reserve sets stage for Weimar-style Hyperinflation by F. William Engdahl Global Research, December 15, 2008 The Federal Reserve has bluntly refused a request by a major US financial news service to disclose the recipients of more than $2 trillion of emergency...

Bernard Madoff: Powerful Blows for Social Justice

Bernard Madoff: Wall Street Swindler Strikes Powerful Blows for Social Justice   Written by James Petras    Sunday, 21 December 2008 17:52       by James Petras “We never thought he would do this to us, he was one of our people” - member...

The End of the U.S.

I do not believe the scenario projected but there is no question that the US has become extremely vulnerable and the trend is downwards. The US is economically Bankrupt and has been  for some time but has survived because of it's size. The US is too big to be...

Felice Gelman at CWF Conference

On December 12 I attended the Center for Working Families New York State Policy Conference.  Attendees were mostly activists and representatives of community organizations, trade unions, and state level politicians.  The topics that were covered included...

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....

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...

The Left Forum

April 17-19, 2009 Each spring in New York City, Left Forum gathers intellectuals and activists from around the world to address the burning issues of our times. The theme for 2009 is TURNING POINTS. Even before the financial meltdown and its spreading destruction to...

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We went today to Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey to show our solidarity to those incarcerated and to their families. There have been people on hunger strike since last Friday and the community is out in front in support around the clock: ... See MoreSee Less
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