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Economic Democracy

If ye love wealth better than liberty... May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

~ Samuel Adams

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.
~ Eugene V. Debs

The United States is home to a vibrant movement for economic democracy. Read our materials on cooperatives, participatory budgeting, and solidarity economies.

Organizing Resources

    PROGRESSIVE STATES NETWORK: Trade and the States

This July, 2009 report by the Progressive States Network highlights many of the rising concerns by state leaders over recent federal trade deals, how states have been taking action to increase their roles in the trade negotiation process, and recent mobilization by those state leaders working with federal allies to institutionalize the role of states in the trade negotiation and implementation process.

    CEPR: Dropping the Ax: Illegal Firings During Union Election Campaigns

This report, by John Schmitt and Ben Zipperer of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, updates an earlier report from January of 2007, which found a steep rise in illegal firings of pro-union workers in the 2000s relative to the last half of the 1990s.

    Participatory Budgeting Resources

Toolkits, useful websites and other resources for communities interested in participatory budgeting.

News

    TRUMKA: Showdown in Chicago

Date: October 23, 2009

    AFL-CIO: Thousands Protest Bankers

Date: October 28, 2009

Take Action

    Ask them to cosponsor the 2009 TRADE Act

source: Citizens Trade Campaign

    Employee Free Choice Act and Arbitration

source: Service Employes International Union (SEIU)

    Break Up the Banks!

source: A New Way Forward

Events

    NASCO Action Camp 2009: Racial Justice for Sustainable Communities

(August 13, 2009 - August 16, 2009)

NASCO Action Camp, held each August, provides an intensive training retreat for leaders and members of housing co-ops, worker collectives, and other democratically-run communities.

    Democracy Track at the U.S. Social Forum

The Democracy Track is a series of sessions and community spaces at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27-July 1, 2007. The purpose of these sessions is to centralize democracy in all of our everyday struggles.

    U.S. Social Forum II

(June 22, 2009 - June 26, 2010)

Another World is Possible! Another U.S.A. is necessary!

Publications & Talks

    La FOLLETTE: July 4, 1897 on the Dangers Threatening Representative Government

Considered among the several most significant speeches of the great radical reformer, Fighting Bob La Follette, we offer these excerpts to you 112 years later.



 
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