[act-ma] 1/30: Occupy Salem: "Building a Cooperative Economy - From Mondragon to Massachusetts"

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Occupy Salem Free University presents:


  Building a Cooperative Economy: From Mondragon to Massachusetts

Monday, January 30
7:00 pm
Speakers: Tony Dunn and Eric Johnson
The Gathering, 217 Essex St, Salem

see Wicked Local 
<http://www.wickedlocal.com/northofboston/entertainment/x1672349225/Occupy-Salem-presents-forum-in-Salem-on-Building-a-Cooperative-Economy#axzz1kto8DfO7>
"Tony Dunn, a longtime labor activist, who is starting a worker-owned 
business in Lynn, will talk about his recent trip to *Mondragon in 
Spain*. He will be joined by Eric Johnson, an active member of the U.S. 
Federation of Cooperatives, who works at Red Sun Press, a unionized 
worker-owned business in Boston.

While unemployment reaches Depression-era levels, the politicians talk 
about cutting deficits, ignoring the needs of the 99 percent. How do we 
build a new economy based on the needs of the people? Mondragon is a 
network of worker-owned co-ops that is Spain's seventh-largest 
corporation. *The Mondragon cooperatives employ more than 80,000 people 
and virtually never lay anyone off.*

People are already working to bring the Mondragon model to the North Shore.
All are welcome to this free program."


  re Mondragon:

see youtube video: Mondragon Cooperative- part 1 
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C39pcx0Ynk0>

"A visual documentary of the successful Mondragon Cooperative in the 
Basque region of Spain.
For more information please go to www.mondragon.mcc.es" 
<http://www.mondragon.mcc.es>


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