<br><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">New
England Premier of</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">SHIFTCHANGE:  PUTTING DEMOCRACY TO WORK</span></b></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">An inspirational new documentary by veteran award-winning
filmmakers Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin about </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">the real possibilities offered by
worker cooperatives during this time of industrial decline, chronic
unemployment, and systemic economic crisis. 
Lively stories of secure, dignified jobs, in democratic workplaces
including<b> </b>Boston’s own Equal
Exchange and the path-breaking Mondragon Cooperative Corporation.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#0070c0">7
pm, Oct. 21 at Northeastern University’s West Village F Auditorium</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#7030a0">7
pm, Oct. 24 at Tufts University, Barnum 104</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Join us for a 6 pm reception with coffee & light snacks
before the Northeastern showing.  Both
screenings will be followed by discussion with film-makers and local worker
cooperators.  </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Directions and
more information about the screenings </span><a href="http://shiftchange.org/Boston/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">here</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">; also see </span><a href="http://www.shiftchange.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">shiftchange.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">.</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:red">FREE
AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">Sponsors:</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">  These Boston screenings
of Shiftchange are presented by the Boston Area Solidarity Economy Network
(BASEN), a local chapter of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network (</span><a href="http://www.ussen.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.ussen.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">), and of the Intercontinental Social
Solidarity Economy Network (</span><a href="http://www.ripess.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">www.ripess.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">), which seek to make visible, link together, and grow worker
cooperatives and other alternative and transformational economic practices and
institutions.    The screenings are co-sponsored by Equal
Exchange, Trillium Asset Management, Red Sun Press, Northeastern University
Social Enterprise Institute, Somerville Climate Action, Boston Collective
Delivery, Ownership Associates, South Mountain Company, JP Forum, JP New
Economy Transition, New Economy Institute, Cooperative Fund of New England, the
Tellus Institute, Gurmylay: Growing the Green Economy, Al Campbell of the Union
for Radical Political Economics SC, and Harvest Co-op.  Also cooperating to bring this great film to
you are the Worker Owned and Run Cooperative Network of Boston (<a href="http://worcn.org">worcn.org</a>),
Jobs with Justice, Democratic Socialists of America, Somerville Rep. Denise Provost,
Dollars & Sense, Mass. Global Action, Jewish Labor Committee,   Dorchester Community Food Co-op, Occupy Boston
Sustainable Economy Working Group, and Boston Workers Alliance. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#222222">              </span><b style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">FOR MORE INFORMATION: </span></b><b style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">Rodney
North, 774-776-7398, </span></b><a href="mailto:Rodney@equalexchange.coop" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">Rodney@equalexchange.coop</span></b></a></p>


<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">WEBSITE:  </span></b><a href="http://shiftchange.org/"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">shiftchange.org</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">;
TWITTER: @Shift Change; FACEBOOK: shiftchangemovie</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:18.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">JOIN
BASEN! Contact Julie Matthaei, </span></b><a href="mailto:jmatthaei@wellesley.edu"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">jmatthaei@wellesley.edu</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050"> 
</span></b><a href="mailto:jmatthaei@wellesley.edu"></a><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">or Wayne Clark, </span></b><a href="mailto:rwayneclark@igc.org"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050">rwayneclark@igc.org</span></b></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#00b050"></span></p>