Other Economies are Possible!
Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity
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| Can thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects
| form the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism? It
| might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker,
| consumer, and housing cooperatives, community currencies, urban gardens,
| fair trade organizations, intentional communities, and neighborhood
| self-help associations could hold a candle to the pervasive and
| seemingly all-powerful capitalist economy. These "islands of alternatives
| in a capitalist sea" are often small in scale, low in resources, and
| sparsely networked. They are rarely able to connect with each other,
| much less to link their work with larger, coherent structural visions of
| an alternative economy.
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http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0706emiller.html
This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine.
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