Our Co-Owned Future
From health care to jobs to community development, why the future will be cooperative.
By Gar Alperovitz (Originally published in Yes! Magazine, March 2, 2012)
This is the second post in a series of three. Click here to read the first.
The explosive force of Occupy Wall Street—and more than a thousand other local efforts—offers hope that a movement committed [...]
A Jubilee for Student Debt?
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (October 20, 2011)
Some—including Wall Street protesters—say relieving students of nearly a trillion dollars in loans will help the rest of us, too. Ellen Brown asks, could it really work?
By Ellen Brown
Among the demands of the Wall Street protesters is student debt forgiveness—a debt “jubilee.” Occupy Philly has a “Student Loan Jubilee Working [...]
Where The 99 Percent Get Their Power
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (Oct 7, 2011)
By Sarah Van Gelder
Young people locking arms, facing arrest on a cold, wet Seattle street—it could have been the WTO protests that rocked the city more than ten years ago. Only this time, Seattle is just one of dozens of places where the movement for the 99 percent is [...]
Dear Big Coal: You’re Not Above the Law
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (September 20, 2011)
How many times can a corporation break the law and continue to exist? Inside the fight to revoke Massey Energy’s corporate charter.
By Sarah Van Gelder
A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices and some politicians like to refer to corporations as “persons.” Few actual people, though, could get away with [...]
How State Banks Bring the Money Home
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine (September 23, 2011)
Big banks freeze out small business, but North Dakota’s state bank supports local jobs. The idea is catching on.
By Stacy Mitchell
One of the most significant, but least noticed, consequences of the rapid and dramatic consolidation of the banking industry over the last decade is how much it has hindered [...]
North Dakota’s Economic “Miracle”—It’s Not Oil
Reprinted from Yes! Magazine
North Dakota has had the nation’s lowest unemployment ever since the economy tanked. What’s its secret?
by Ellen Brown
In an article in The New York Times on August 19th titled “The North Dakota Miracle,” Catherine Rampell writes:
Forget the Texas Miracle. Let’s instead take a look at North Dakota, which has the lowest unemployment rate [...]
On the Origin of Corporations
How the buccaneers and privateers of days past came to be the Wall Street profiteers of the present.
by David Korten
This is the tenth of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national [...]
How Wisconsin Could Turn Austerity into Prosperity: Own a Bank
Published in Yes! March 5, 2011. Reprinted with permission.
An answer to state budget woes that doesn’t need to involve sacrificing workers’ rights.
by Ellen Brown
Public sector worker sitting in a bar: “They’re trying to take away our pensions.”
Private sector worker: “What’s a pension?”
As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, [...]
Sarah van Gelder: “10 Most Hopeful Stories of 2010″
Published in Yes! December 22, 2010. Reprinted with permission.
There was plenty of disappointment and hardship this year. But the year also brought opportunities for transformation.
by Sarah van Gelder
It was a tough year. The economy continued its so-called jobless recovery with Wall Street anticipating another year of record bonuses while most Americans struggle to get work [...]
Fracking Wars: Pittsburgh Bans Natural Gas Drilling
[Editor's note: If you want to find the still guttering flame of democracy in America, look in the heartland, in small towns such as Barnstead, New Hampshire and Blaine Township, Pennsylvania, and now in Pittsburgh, where town councils are voting to deny corporations the rights of personhood. This is the frontline in a war between the [...]
