5.03 alternative political systems and movements

Global Anarchism: Cooperating to Reinvent Democracy

Authors: David Graeber

Summary:

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.

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Historic Foundations of Cooperative Philosophy

Authors: Greg Lawless

Summary:

We shall ever fail to realize our ideal, but we should never cease to strive for it.

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Unleashing the Freedom To Share: An Interview with Free Software Innovator Richard Stallman

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Authors: Dave Taber

Summary:

Copyright is designed to subjugate people. Copyleft is my way of using copyright law to establish the freedom to cooperate.

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Just Garments: A Worker-Organized Factory Challenges Sweatshops

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Authors: Liana Foxvog

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When the Salvadoran workers tried to unionize, Tainan, a Taiwanese company, closed the factory. Union workers took over the factory themselves.

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Honoring Damu Smith and His Work to Unify the Peace Movement

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Authors: Darryl Jordan

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Damu understood better that most that the struggle to end war and poverty in the world could only happen with the inclusion and participation of people of color.

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Rights are Not in Limited Supply

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Authors: Editor

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As lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color, we support the current immigrant rights marches and rallies happening across the country, and we march too.

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Building Community: Building Global Justice

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Authors: Jake Miller

Summary:

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...

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Globalization, Co-op Style

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Authors: Jane Livingston

Summary:

If we were going to run our own store, what would we never allow to happen to each other?

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