Who鈥檚 Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Corporations aren鈥檛 hiring, and Washington is gridlocked. Here鈥檚 how we take charge of our own livelihoods.
Jobs
Work Less, Live More
Working fewer hours could help save our economy, our sanity, and the planet.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Economics
Busting 3 big myths about jobs today.
Want Jobs? Rebuild the Dream
Van Jones is leading a national mobilization to rebuild the middle class鈥攖hrough decent work, fair taxes, and opportunities for all.
Ex-Convicts’ Self-Help to Break the Prison Cycle
Ex-cons show each other the way out at San Francisco's Delancey Street.
United by Hard Times: Workers Organize Across Race Lines
A tough economy makes cross-race organizing more important than ever.
Van Jones: Beyond the Politics of Confrontation
Meet the man who鈥檚 convincing the country, and the new President, that the next economy needs to be green and just. Interview by Sarah van Gelder.
7 Cool Companies
7 of the best current models for changing who owns, controls and benefits from business. Profits can flow to workers, consumers or the community - not just outside investors. And these businesses succeed.
Horizontalidad: Where Everyone Leads
Horizontalidad: bringing direct democracy to Argentina's citizens while reducing unemployment and stimulating worker involvement.
Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
Oakland discovers that green-collar jobs can revitalize its economy and sets out on the path to becoming a 'global green city.'
Two Crises, One Solution
We face devastation of the natural world and violence in human communities. There's a way to solve both these crises. A reverence movement would anchor a different economics, a restorative economics. Working with nature, we can create wealth sustainably and spread it more equitably. Solution-based, investment-driven environmentalism.
Second Chance For Black Farmers
A recent class-action suit by black farmers against the USDA fails to stem the loss of land by African American farmers.
Why Work?
Bob Black, Why Work? Examines the stultifying impact of work and jobs and advocates the abolition of most production and the tranformation of work to play.
Now I Become Myself
Parker Palmer writes about finding his vocation and the link between self and service
The New Solidarity
the new solidarity, by Anthony S. Arch.
Steelworkers and forest activists forge a new
alliance.
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