[p2p-research] Fwd: Worker Co-op Conference Coming Up

[Michel Bauwens]

*5th Biennial Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy*

*with Small Planet Institute, Ohio Employee Ownership Center, and*

*Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Pittsburgh***

*Democracy Works: Worker Cooperatives,*

*Labor Solidarity, and Sustainability*

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*Friday to Sunday, July 31st - August 2nd, 2009*

*Duquesne University • Pittsburgh, PA*

*www.east.usworker.coop*



*Join worker co-ops, majority worker-owned firms, and support organizations
committed to workplace democracy as we move towards sharing our knowledge,
strengthening our businesses and the economic democracy movement, and
organizing for workplace democracy in the eastern region of the U. S.*

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*Conference workshops will focus on* what worker cooperatives are, how to
create them, and improving business skills, as well as encouraging
democratic ESOPs and building the economic democracy and labor solidarity
movements.

*Keynote speaker Frances Moore Lappé*: Historian Howard Zinn says, “A small
number of people in every generation are forerunners in thought, action, and
spirit, swerving past barriers to hold a torch high for the rest of us.
Lappé is one of those.”  Ms. Lappé is the author of sixteen books and has
received seventeen honorary doctorates.  In her books such as *Getting a
Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Democracy’s
Edge: Choosing to Save Our Country by Bringing Democracy to Life, You Have
the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear, *and *Casting New Molds:
First Steps Toward Worker Control in a Mozambique Steel Factory,* Ms. Lappé
has been addressing the urgent need for working people to take control of
their economies and societies from toxic oligarchies and elites, drawing
attention to a powerful though frequently invisible citizens’ revolution.
In America, this represents the emergence of a new historical stage of
democracy in which people are rising up to change the ground rules, tackling
problems that stymie the experts.   *Plenary panelists* Hazel Corcoran
(Canadian Federation of Worker Co-ops), John Curl (author), John Logue (Ohio
Employee Ownership Center), Melissa Hoover (U.S. Federation of Worker
Co-ops), and Charles McCollester (Indiana University of Pennsylvania;
invited) will speak on Economic Discovery: Moving Toward Democratic Control
covering the following issues:* *Worker Ownership: Lessons Learned; Historic
and Current Crises; and Recovery: What do Worker Co-ops Have to Offer?



*Supporters to Date*

*Patrons: **Equal Exchange, Red Sun Press, U.S. Federation of Worker
Cooperatives  Sponsors: Carey Center for Democratic Capitalism, Chroma
Technology, Collective Copies, Cooperative Development Institute,
Cooperative Fund of New England, Cooperative Home Care Associates, East End
Food Co-op, Gaia Host Collective, Grassroots Economic Organizing Collective,
National Cooperative Business Association, Ownership Associates, Southern
New Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development
Contributors: City University of New York **Graduate Center for Worker
Education, Community Builders Co-op, Cooperative Development Foundation,
Democracy Collaborative at University of Maryland, **Dollars and Sense
Magazine, Praxis Consulting, Ronin Tech Collective, South Mountain Company,
Steel Valley Authority, Vermont Employee Ownership Center***

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mary Hoyer <mhoyer22 at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Subject: Worker Co-op Conference Coming Up
To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com


Tho't this might interest you.  Feel free to post and circulate.  Mary
Hoyer, Lead Organizer / Amherst, MA USA / 413-256-0726




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