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Posted on November 27, 2019
We put together a short list of ways to make your Thanksgiving a day of economic and racial justice:
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Posted on November 18, 2019
By Tracy Bindel, Law Center Intern How Spirituality & Economic Democracy Can Weave Communities Together For the first two weeks of June 2019, I attended an institute at the Underground Seminary studying a Post-Colonial Survey of the Bible at the Church of All Nations (CAN) outside of Minneapolis, MN. What is...
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Posted on November 14, 2019
By Oscar Perry Abello of Next City Excerpt: The Sustainable Economies Law Center supported worker cooperative members to participate in the local policy-making process that eventually led to the changes to Berkeley’s small business loan fund in September. The center’s “policy brigade” initiative brought together a group of worker co-op...
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Posted on November 5, 2019
By NCBA CLUSA Excerpt: In a unanimous vote last week, the Santa Clara City Council adopted recommendations put forward by the Committee on Economic Development, Communications and Marketing to advance worker cooperative development in the community. The motion to move the worker co-op effort forward was led by Santa Clara...
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Posted on October 28, 2019
From the Office of Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin BERKELEY, CA (September 25, 2019) — Businesses that are at risk of closure because their owner is retiring or putting the business up for sale are now eligible for the City’s Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) for the purpose of converting them into...
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