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Resilience: Co-ops 101 - An Introduction to Cooperatives 1/3

Submitted by Gerrit on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 3:35pm

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Corporate capitalism has failed western societies. In the western world, inequality is at its highest on record, the environment is threatened, and local communities have become corporate dependencies. Presently, many businesses in a community are not local, but are franchises of a national or multinational corporation that pays its workers as little as possible, ruins the environment, and sends the profits to investors far away. Many consumers are left isolated individually with no bargaining power.
In order to grow resilient local economies, communities will have to develop local businesses and local organizations to break the stranglehold that multinational corporations have on them.
The cooperative is a form of organization for business or for consumers that works for the betterment of the local community - its people, environment, and its economy. This is the first in a three-part series on co-ops. More below.

The Lies of "Liberal" or "Conservative" Media

Submitted by cardboardurinal on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 2:26pm

While going through my undergraduate program, I became very much interested in the politics of media and media politics. I am not talking so much about how media shape perspective, though I find that interesting, I am talking about ownership structure and how much of a given market media companies own. Robert McChesney, Ben Bagdikian, Sy Hersh (who I named my dog after), Noam Chomsky, et el were very important to my evolution on how I view media, and its place in our society.

Hillary Is Tobacco, Stein is Pot

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 2:05pm

Inspired by Bernie today... so I decided that it would be fun to think about the political parties and their various characteristics. I finally realized that they all have effects and general ways they make people react. Yes, they affect some people differently than others, but in the end, they all aim to alter your behavior and outlook.

The Political Parties and Persons are DRUGS. And it's pretty obvious which ones they are when you think about it.

Hellraisers Journal: Chicago Federation of Labor Pleads for Life of Irish Rebel James Connolly

Submitted by JayRaye on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 1:00pm
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday May 11, 1916
Chicago, Illinois - America Union Workers Plead for Life of Irish Rebel

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In a meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor this past Sunday, a resolution was passed that a message should be sent to London making a plea for the life of the Irish Rebel, James Connolly. Connolly is well known and much respected by the trade unionists and Socialists of Chicago, having once been a resident of the city where he was active in both movements on behalf of the working class.

How the DNC proved Trump and Orwell right, and vote blue wrong

Submitted by Dragonkat on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 12:15pm

So during a comment war pie fight I let myself get dragged into I ran across a hilariously ill informed gem. Someone comparing Bernie to Squealer from that classic banned Orwell book Animal Farm.

Squealer of course being the pig who declared everyone who dared question enemies of the revolution. Ones who had to be dealt with harshly. And I can see where he was going with it, PP leadership endorsing Hillary, so there go the "bros" Clyburn, Huerta, so on.

Manufacturing trust in US elections

Submitted by ngant17 on Wed, 05/11/2016 - 11:00am

The National Election Pool(NEP) is a cooperative arrangement between all major US mainstream media (MSM), to use election data solely supplied by Edison Research and Mitofsky International in order to publish exit polling data. It was formed out of the failure of the Voters News Service(VNS), begun for same purpose in 1990. The fiasco of 2002, when VNS failed to produce exit poll data because of glitches in software, resulted in disbanding of VNS and the NEP was formed.

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