Hope, Economic Hope (Co-Ops)

    • Right now in the United States, in the old decaying Rust Belt, where industries are collapsing, they’re being replaced, to a certain extent, by worker owned and partially worker-managed enterprises.

    • one of the major US unions, the steel workers, has now entered into some kinds of interactions with Mondragon to try to work out ways to develop Mondragon-type system in the old industrial sections of the US and revive them on the basis of worker-ownership and community-ownership in control

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Why I Want to Run | Lawrence Lessig

    • the most important moral issue of our time — achieving the equality that a democracy demands
    • one where citizens are equal
    • The right that all of us have in a representative democracy to be represented equally.

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