http://mediaroots.org/mr-original-democracy-in-action-with-arizmendi-co-op/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:55:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 http://mediaroots.org/mr-original-democracy-in-action-with-arizmendi-co-op/comment-page-1/#comment-613 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 15:30:11 +0000 http://localhost/mediaroots/mr-original-democracy-in-action-with-arizmendi-co-op/#comment-613 Great report!
Worker Co-ops can be the “workshops of Democracy” that we need IF only all the work that needs to be done could be organized this way and all the BS work that people are slaved into doing was abandoned. Unfortunately this is the rub – if all the BS workers did REAL work that would be the revolution! In the meantime let us ponder the fact that – worldwide – the little REAL work available is being enclosed (teachers laid off, eg) and the system can’t even provide enough BS work for everybody.
So much for capitalism.
I would add to this news report about Arizmendi co-ops that the Worker Co-ops in the San Francisco area are organized into a Network (NoBAWC – pronounced No Boss! – http://www.nobawc.org) and a related project situates the co-ops into the larger Grassroots Economy and promotes its expansion – http://www.jasecon.org. At both sites there is lots of info, and examples of people taking control of their lives as best you can in a society that seems intent on self-destruction.

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