Equity union vs. credit union. The semantics alone are worth comment. I won't pursue the semantics. "Equity unions" could be approximated by forming...
Is anybuddy there? This group, http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/Reg_Coop_Comm_Dev ,is rather a novel idea. I have not been able to interest the local folks in...
Must be an echo echo echo... I m with a project thats overseas in the caribbean havent we emailed before? bob SLF ... From: Mike Morin To: Riseup RCCD ; RCCD...
Glad you revitalized this list. OK...I'll jump in. I'm in Frederick, MD, a city of about 52,000 (2nd largest city in MD), located in the largest county in MD,...
Thanks for the reply. What is your initiative? I'm looking for things that people can do to direct / change the direction of development in the community....
... BE: I would suggest that the Chinese proverb would reverse the order with today's school/teach/educate (=brainwashing) system. As Illich, Goodman, Holt,...
Bill Ellis
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Feb 19, 2003 4:45 pm
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Ken, Here is a copy of my initiative. You may want to look at the attachment as well. You may want to glance at http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/MUNSCCDO . ...
Bill, Excellent questions, all of them. I believe probably all of us know how important a school was to the development of the Mondragon cooperatives. The...
BE: You are way ahead of us. 'A Coalition for Self-Learning' is only exploring the potential of deschooling society by creating learning cooperatives. We know...
Bill Ellis
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Feb 20, 2003 7:27 pm
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Workers own means of production, local consumers/community own distribution outlets. Hybrid organization as means of transition. Hybrid organizations own means...
... For some reason the URLs did not copy correctly. Try again. http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/MUNSCDDO http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/Reg_Coop_Comm_Dev ...
We are in the process of organizing a series of retail food cooperatives that only sell local Oklahoma food that will have both consumers and producers as...
Mr. Waldrop, I enjoyed seeing you post here very much. On occasion I've copied some of your Mondragon related material from your website and shared with folks...
MM, uh huh. I understand. I've seen it myself. Use the word "development" and you're gonna hear some kind of irrelevant anarchist rant. That's ok. If...
"Adavans" I apprciate your posts. Apparently you have some experience with CDCs. Where do you reside? What is your background? I have attached my resume for...
Interesting concept you have come up with regarding getting outside investment money to participate in community business development that lacks assets or...
Bob wrote: Mike, does this sound familiar to what we had discussed earlier off list ? Mike replies: What do ou mean? The guist of our off-line discussion...
--Cooperatives ... Nonetheless, one of the major objectives be it in Panama or Eugene is how to get equity capital to the working poor and indigent. Yes? MM ...
Yes, and the structure suggested was to create entities that could create securities that could then borrow/ raise large amounts of capital. This translates...
I suppose that one could say that all the capital being dumped on Wall Street was once "local" capital. It is easier to invest your hard-earned bucks on Wall...
... BE: Ken, I'm with you. "Empowering people at the grassroots and promoting community solidarity" has been one of the missions TRANET since it was initiated...
Bill Ellis
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on 2/21/03 10:27 AM, adavans@... at adavans@... wrote: I suppose that one could say that all the capital being dumped on Wall Street was once "local"...
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