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> From: "Noel Ortega, Institute for Policy Studies" <noel at ips-dc.org>
> Date: July 5, 2012, 12:07:36 PM PDT
> To: EcoEconomist11 at Gmail.com
> Subject: New Economy Today: The Real Independence Day
> Reply-To: noel at ips-dc.org
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> JULY 5, 2012
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> The Real Independence Day
> "Looking for a way to save good jobs in a tough economy? Go cooperative." – Melvin Macklin
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> Dear Friend,
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> As we celebrate our independence from colonial rule, this week’s issue of New Economy Today looks at a new wave of independence being ushered in by people like you.
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> 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. NEWGroup member Gar Alperovitz reminds 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."
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> In Vancouver, IPS director John Cavanagh and 200 other activists marched on the headquarters 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 commentary, 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 sovereignty.
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> In Europe, activists who have been promoting a tax on financial transactions made a big leap forward recently, with several governments agreeing 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.
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> 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 worker-ownership models.
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> Thank you for declaring your independence from Wall Street – The Real Independence Day,
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> Sincerely, 
> Noel Ortega, New Economy Coordinator
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> A New Era for Worker Ownership?
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> The workers of the New Era Windows cooperative in Chicago—the same workers who also sat in and forced Serious Energy to back down on a hasty shutdown of their Goose Island plant a few months ago, —not only are putting together a bold plan for worker ownership, they are likely to move the entire subject into national attention, thereby spurring others to follow on. 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.
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> 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 [Read more]
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> Chicago Workers' Economic Plan: Go Co-Operative!
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> Leah Fried, field organizer for the United Electrical workers (UE,) talks with GRITtv host, Laura Flanders, about New Era Windows cooperative. Click here to find out how you can help.
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> Is High-Tech the Next Step for the New Economy Movement?
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> Can new technologies become part of the new economy movement? High tech companies seem more participatory, less hierarchical, and more community-oriented than traditional industries. By Olga Musayev.
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> 50 Years of Gutting America's Middle Class
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> Walmart's explosive growth has gutted two key pillars of the American middle class: small businesses and well-paid manufacturing jobs. By Stacy Mitchel.
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> Health Care Access Shouldn't Require Good Luck
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> For me, the Affordable Care Act means that when I graduate from college, I won't have to take a job that I hate to get the health care that I need. By Hilary Matfess.
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