<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br><div>"Many hands make for light work"</div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Noel Ortega, Institute for Policy Studies" <<a href="mailto:noel@ips-dc.org">noel@ips-dc.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> July 5, 2012, 12:07:36 PM PDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:EcoEconomist11@Gmail.com">EcoEconomist11@Gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>New Economy Today: The Real Independence Day</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> <a href="mailto:noel@ips-dc.org">noel@ips-dc.org</a><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text"><em>"Looking for a way to save good jobs in a tough economy? Go cooperative." </em>– Melvin Macklin</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text"><span class="promo-text">Dear Friend,</span></p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">As we celebrate our independence from colonial rule, this week’s issue of <em>New Economy Today</em> looks at a new wave of independence being ushered in by people like you.</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">In Chicago, Melvin Macklin and a group of workers who occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in 2008 have recently formed a worker-run cooperative, which is now seeking independence from Serious Energy. <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zNbg5wIJPMAxf64Dv%2BW94R%2BZscdCUyhl">NEWGroup</a> member Gar Alperovitz <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kldSgOB%2BiNbXON%2FLIdswFB%2BZscdCUyhl">reminds</a> us "though they have a powerful start, if the past is any guide, they will need all the help they can get—financial as well as political."</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">In Vancouver, IPS director John Cavanagh and 200 other activists <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QyLuNJZZqcqRDg%2FbGZgJHR%2BZscdCUyhl">marched on the headquarters</a> of mining giant Pacific Rim. They demanded that the company drop a lawsuit against El Salvador over the denial of a permit for a controversial mining project. In this <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nw%2F%2F2fG8Azw0R64KMeFLu8lmMT0tI%2F%2Fb">commentary</a>, Cavanagh and Robin Broad describe the commitment of Salvadoran anti-mining activists to continue to fight to prevent Pacific Rim from violating El Salvador’s <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O41AEm8pUEN%2FzZEqVNXJ1R%2BZscdCUyhl">sovereignty</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">In Europe, activists who have been promoting a tax on financial transactions made a big leap forward recently, with <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EOaaOiIKd6n%2BViLZgtffDh%2BZscdCUyhl">several governments agreeing</a> to form a coalition of the willing to implement such taxes. These reforms would reduce the power of Wall Street over our economy by making short-term, high-speed trading less profitable.</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">Those of us standing up to defend our independence from Wall Street should strongly oppose any new "rights" for corporations that undermined our democracy and should also support innovative <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aX6B8w7ZPKND0JMIb1twDx%2BZscdCUyhl">worker-ownership models</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">Thank you for declaring your <a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dEtBsJ7x6JRt6bF4Vu5vpB%2BZscdCUyhl">independence from Wall Street</a> – The Real Independence Day,</p>
<p style="color: #bbbbbb; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;" class="promo-text">Sincerely, <br>
Noel Ortega, New Economy Coordinator</p>
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<p style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 12px; padding-top: 0; padding-bottom: 0; font-weight: normal;">What’s happening in Chicago is part of a very important national trend; many parts of the country are looking towards worker ownership as a way to root jobs in the communities that need them. In Cleveland, for instance a community foundation, with the support of local universities and hospitals, is helping create a network of interlinked green worker cooperatives as part of an economic development strategy designed to help lift devastated neighborhoods out of poverty. By Gar Alperovitz [<a style="color: #3ca7dd; text-decoration: none;" href="http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bTRSjthk8RDb6rUCmJhZqR%2BZscdCUyhl">Read more</a>]</p>
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