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Dear Colleague,
Welcome to our July www.Community-Wealth.org newsletter. This month’s developments include:
- We are pleased to announce the re-launch of our Community-Wealth.org website. Our redesign highlights various opportunities to foster democratic ownership and build community wealth. To mark the re-launch, we have also released a new animated film explaining the community wealth building approach to building collaborative, inclusive, and locally controlled economies. Read more below. We maintain the Community-Wealth.org website free of charge as a resource to advocates and practitioners everywhere. Help us keep the site thriving with a tax deductible donation.
- In The Leap, the companion blog to Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, Gus Speth, Co-Chair of the Next System Project and a Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, speaks about the imperative of taking a systemic approach to confront the environmental crises facing us today. The Next System Project also released the latest installment in our video series, featuring MIT Associate Professor of Urban Politics Phillip Thompson, who discusses the historical fight for civil and economic rights and reminds us that “the true intent of the thirteenth amendment was not just to eliminate chattel slavery, but to eliminate all forms of economic oppression.”
- Community wealth building continues to gain traction internationally. In an article in New Start Magazine, Matthew Jackson, deputy chief executive at the U.K.-based Center for Local Economic Strategies, which is helping to advance a Community Wealth Building Initiative in Preston, England, examines critical success factors in the development of Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives. Economist Borys Cieślak interviewed Manager of Community Development Programs Sarah McKinley for the Polish publication Magazyn Miasta (Cities Magazine) where she discusses “Clevelandzkim” and community wealth building strategies as an alternative to “business as usual.”
As always, we continue to add new links, articles, reports, and other materials to the site. Look for this symbol *NEW* to find the most recent additions.
Ted Howard
President & Co-Founder, The Democracy Collaborative
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