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In Praise of Vacant Lots
by Jay Walljasperposted Jul 05, 2012 - Jay Walljasper on why “profitable economic function” is sometimes less valuable than empty space.
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Building the New Economy: Ten Steps We Can Take Now
by James Gustave Spethposted Jun 18, 2012 - How to choose people, place, and planet over profit, product, and power.
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Endowment Activism: How Students Can Move Big Money
by Martha van Gelderposted May 17, 2012 - Think broke students have no power to influence Wall Street? Think again.
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No Tax Dollars for Deadbeats
by Doug Pibelposted Apr 16, 2012 - With corporations spending millions to dodge taxes, we’re directing our tax resentment at the wrong people.
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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
by Marjorie Kellyposted Apr 16, 2012 - When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
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Cooperatives Put People—and Democracy—to Work
posted Mar 30, 2012 - How worker-owned businesses from Cleveland to Spain are nurturing life and jobs outside the corporate framework.
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When Bankers Rule the World
by David Kortenposted Mar 29, 2012 - How we can call out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and take back America.
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Bring On the Next American Revolution
by Larry Gabrielposted Mar 20, 2012 - Book Review: At 96, Grace Boggs gives us a new handbook for transformation—from victims to empowered citizens.
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Preventing the Fall of Rome
by Gar Alperovitzposted Mar 14, 2012 - Gar Alperovitz: Why transformative change to the economic system is needed and how it might be accomplished.
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My Unjustifiable Tax Break
by Dal LaMagnaposted Mar 13, 2012 - A millionaire tries out the justifications for paying a lower tax rate on his investments than Warren Buffet’s secretary does on her income.
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Nurses Fight for a Dose of Tax Justice
by Sarah Andersonposted Mar 06, 2012 - Before there was Occupy, thousands of nurses were already taking on Wall Street to demand a financial transaction tax.
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Is It Time to Tax the Internet?
by Jay Walljasperposted Mar 06, 2012 - How our communities can stop losing out on business and tax revenue.
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Our Co-Owned Future
by Gar Alperovitzposted Mar 02, 2012 - Gar Alperovitz: From health care to jobs to community development, why the future will be cooperative.
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What If Corporations Couldn’t Use Our Commons For Free?
by Peter Barnesposted Feb 21, 2012 - Peter Barnes: How our shared resources could become a source of common wealth.
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5 Ways to Make Your Dollars Make Sense
by Michael Shumanposted Feb 14, 2012 - Concerned about Wall Street’s devastating impact on communities? Then invest in yourself—the most local investment of all.
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