Issue 365 - May 2006
Cooperative Economics
Featuring
- Anarchist Anthropology
- Raising the Minimum Wage
- Uprisings in Nepal, France & Belarus
- Military Recruiters Go Fishing
In This Issue
 If we were going to run our own store, what would we never allow to happen to each other? |
 Grassroots International has developed a program of grantmaking that is designed to provide critical support to the most exciting social change organizations in the global south, particularly rural movements that are struggling for the right to food, land and water. Some of these movements began as confederations of cooperatives, while others originated as movements that created cooperatives in order to organize production... |
In 1970, 38% of American Indians/Alaskan Natives lived in cities. In 2000: 61%. Bush's response: zero out the budget for the Urban Indian Health Program. |
| From the Editor's Desk | ||
| Just Garments: A Worker-Organized Factory Challenges Sweatshops | When the Salvadoran workers tried to unionize, Tainan, a Taiwanese company, closed the factory. Union workers took over the factory themselves. | |
| Unleashing the Freedom To Share: An Interview with Free Software Innovator Richard Stallman | Copyright is designed to subjugate people. Copyleft is my way of using copyright law to establish the freedom to cooperate. | |
| Belarusians Rally Against Dictatorship | Mr. Lukashenko said, "Belarusians cannot be strangled, they cannot be manipulated" or humiliated. To stop that happening, Lukashenko must go. | |
| Cooperatives: Definitions, Values, & Principles | A cooperative is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise. | |
| Co-op Statistics in the US | ||
| Historic Foundations of Cooperative Philosophy | We shall ever fail to realize our ideal, but we should never cease to strive for it. | |
| Global Anarchism: Cooperating to Reinvent Democracy | After having lived in Madagascar for two years, I was startled, the first time I attended a meeting of the Direct Action Network, by how familiar it all seemed. | |
| A French Tradition of Resistance | Why wouldn't they take to the streets rather than bow before globalization and the holy "free market"? | |
| Raising the Minimum Wage: Let Justice Roll | Most of the work was in forging a large coalition, generating persuasive talking points, and getting the word out in the media. By the time the bill was introduced, we were positioned so that if they rejected the bill they would be hurting themselves. | |
| Immigrant Rights Protests Turn the Tide | The Sensenbrenner-King bill proposed criminalizing millions of immigrants. However, it also energized millions across the country and gave the Immigrant Rights movement new life. | |
| Nonviolent Uprising in Nepal Restores Democracy | Nepalese "security" services killed 17 people and injured over 6000 during the uprising. Yet pro-democracy demonstrators returned to the streets each day in larger and more diverse numbers. | |
| Letter to the Editor Regarding UFPJ, ANSWER, and Ramsey Clark | Clark is tireless in his willingness to help the voiceless have a fair trial, usually charging nothing for his services. | |
| Resources on Democratic, Participatory, and Equitable Enterprises | Listings for federations of workers cooperatives, food cooperatives, community development credit unions, fair trade enterprises, and intentional communities. Plus, more to read. | |
| Peacework Magazine Has Obtained Data from the Army | Download data from www.peaceworkmagazine.org | |
| Fish Where Fish Are |
