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Posted on May 14, 2019
OK. So maybe our blog post title isn’t as eye-catching as the book club favorite (and blockbuster movie) Crazy Rich Asians... But in our world, we work with so many Enthusiastically Sustainable Asian-Americans that we couldn’t pass up Asian Pacific American Heritage Month without highlighting some of them for you!...
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Posted on May 7, 2019
By Sara Stephens From May 30-June 1, 2019, cooperative attorneys and accountants will gather in Chicago for New Horizons and Best Practices for Cooperative Professionals, where they will learn from one another’s practices, initiate newcomers into cooperative law and financial topics, and dig into legal and accounting challenges confronting their...
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Posted on April 18, 2019
By Tia Katrina Taruc-Myers, Director of Legal Education// When I'm not hosting Legal Cafes and planning teach-ins for the Law Center, I spend my free time as an active member of the Community Democracy Project! (CDP is an all-volunteer campaign working to turn the power structure right-side up by putting the...
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Posted on April 9, 2019
By Chris Tittle, Director of Organizational Resilience at the Sustainable Economies Law Center // In March 2018, several of us sat in a rooftop garden overlooking downtown Oakland. As we discussed the future of the region, the city skyline suddenly appeared as a timeline, revealing the past and future imaginations...
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Posted on April 9, 2019
By Sue Bennett and Chris Tittle, Law Center staff and co-directors of our Worker Self-Directed Nonprofits program // On March 27-29, 2019 the Law Center and an amazing team of facilitators and co-organizers hosted the second Nonprofit Democracy Network: Tools for Collective Self-Governance gathering. Over three days at the Omni...
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